Re: [Freedos-user] Can FDISK destroy partitions using the examine partitions option?

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Bailey
Good day, all: The person who did this is very knowledgeable and believes that FDISK did, in fact, trash the partition table. I had this exact thing happen to me when running fdisk. FDISK displayed a bunch of garbage in response to a display partitions option and then the partition table was

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FDISK destroy partitions using the examine partitions option?

2005-07-18 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:55:32 -0400, you wrote: Hi Mark, The person who did this is very knowledgeable and believes that FDISK did, in fact, trash the partition table. I had this exact thing happen to me when running fdisk. FDISK displayed a bunch of garbage in response to a display partitions

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FDISK destroy partitions using the examine partitions option?

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi: Newest EMM386. Mark Johnson Lam wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:55:32 -0400, you wrote: Hi Mark, The person who did this is very knowledgeable and believes that FDISK did, in fact, trash the partition table. I had this exact thing happen to me when running fdisk. FDISK displayed a

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FDISK destroy partitions using the examine partitions option?

2005-07-18 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:34:11 -0400, you wrote: Hi, Newest EMM386. Hope you can reproduce it everytime, otherwise no idea how it happen. Rgds, Johnson. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM.

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FDISK destroy partitions using the examine partitions option?

2005-07-17 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all: I just suggested that someone who was having trouble with NTFS4DOS not recognizing an NTFS partition run fdisk with the development kernel. I requested that he enable large disk support and use option [4], List Partition Information. This appears to have

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FDISK destroy partitions using the examine partitions option?

2005-07-17 Thread kd4d
Hi Kenneth: No, I am not sure, of course. I had something similar happen to me once as well. Fortunately, gpart fixed that one...but it did happen after I ran FDISK. I don't believe he HAD a problem except that NTFS4DOS didn't recognize the XP partition. Are there any FreeDOS tools that