Re: [TCLUG:18079] clobbered partition table

["Shawn Roske" <shawn@webkromatic.com>]

I wasn't suggesting the act of _creating_  a partition with fdisk. It is
merely an easy (keyword:easy) way to restore the mbr and get a usable
system.

-Shawn

----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:18079] clobbered partition table


> 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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