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Re: Hard Disk trouble



If UR using seagate partition manager U can boot from partition manager boot
disk and then restore your drive information from norton resque disk. (I
hope U must have created one after installing norton utilities)

- - Soumya
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From: Y.V.Deval <deval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: Hard Disk trouble


> Amol Gokhale wrote:
> >
> Dear Amol
>
> 1) try fdisk/MBR in dos.
>
> 2) if that fails partition your new hard disk in exactly the same manner
> as the old one , install the same software and then copy the MBR on to a
> floppy and copy it back to old disk.
>
> best luck
>
> Vijay
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> >         I am in a bit of a jam. This was the config of my HDD.
> >
> >                 fat 16 - C:- 1000MB
> >                 fat 16 - d: - 1500MB
> >                 Linux Swap - 125 MB
> >                 Linux Native - rest
> >                 Total 4.3 GB
> > 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?
> >
> >         I don't want to pay for data recovery. The last time I sent my
HDD
> > for data recovery, the data was recovered, but the HDD was totaled.
> >
> > Amol
> >
>
>
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