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AnimEdge
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Texas
Insane since: Mar 2004

posted posted 05-08-2004 02:28

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

Tyberius Prime
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Germany
Insane since: Sep 2001

posted posted 05-08-2004 11:26

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.

kuckus
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Berlin (almost)
Insane since: Dec 2001

posted posted 05-08-2004 12:59

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.

AnimEdge
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Texas
Insane since: Mar 2004

posted posted 05-09-2004 06:45

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

w007

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