Re: [TCLUG:18079] clobbered partition table

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

don't use windows fdisk... NO NO NO.. bad idea.. dos fdisk clears the
first block of every partiton it creates.. it does not just modify the
partition table.. it wipes out the FAT area and flags it so windows knows
it needs to be formated.. BAD idea.. (this has been teh behavior since dos
6.0)

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Shawn Roske wrote:

> If the ext2 partitions aren't too precious, get a win98 bootdisk with
> fdisk.exe.
> Boot off of it and try messing with the partitions, either by removing one
> or two
> of them, or by doing a
> 
> a:\fdisk /mbr
> 
>     - I think that's what it was....
> 
> You should then be able to boot into the windows partition, then try loadlin
> or
> something of that sort to get into the linux partitions...
> 
> Good Luck, Shawn
> 
> 
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