Preserved Topic: drive letter gone on non-dos partition

wail using fdisk on someones computer after seing they can only use half there HDD i noticed the partition Win98 was using was a non-dos partition using 58% of the HDD, i didnt even think you could have win running on this but he did, next day win98 wouldnt load and i checked it and eventually checked fdisk to see that a new partitioned was made using 8% of the 60gig HDD and now took the name C:/ when deleted, the non-dos partition now has no drive name meaning that i cant start 98 and get to all the important busesness data on the computer how woudl i fix this?

w007

with a disk editor and a lot of knowledge about how partition tables are layed out - knoppix (a live linux on cd) could have one. You'll need to use google to learn about the layout of the partition table.

google->testdisk is great for recovering damaged partition tables, too. Just copy the dos .exe to a bootable floppy, run it, and a few minutes later you might have everything working again... saved me several times already.

it was the master boot record i just re instated it and it worked again

w007