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Re: Hard Disk trouble



Hi guys ,

        I did try that but fdisk would hang. I was actually using a program
called Partition manager. So I don't know what is doing what. I ran norton
utilities for Win 95 & detected the linux partition.

Amol
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From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: Hard Disk trouble


> On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 09:10:52AM +0530, Amol Gokhale wrote:
>
> > Although this is a deviant question, I lost my d: while trying to fool
> > around with the MBR. I was trying to recover the Linux partitions for
> > windows. I badly needed the space for a project that has come along.
Only
> > the MBR has been damaged. Is there any way I can recover the d: without
> > disturbing the rest of the partitons. BTW I got myself a new HDD for the
> > project. So Linux remains as it is. Is there any tool that can do this
for
> > me?
>
> Have you tried FDISK /MBR from either DOS/Win ? This will restore the MBR
> and you can recover your d:. Boot to Linux from a floppy and run LILO to
> save everything.
>
> Note that you need to get the cylinder numbers for each partition right.
>
> -Arun
>
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