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Re: Trashed DOS partition table
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Moshe Cohen wrote:
>
> My 2nd hard drive is no longer recognized by Windows or Linux.
> This occured after I HAD TO press the reset button when Win 95
> completely froze.
> I have browsed the raw disk through Linux, and it seems (I hope
> at least) that just the partition table at the beginning got
> smeared.
> I am afraid to use FDISK to recreate the partitions because
> it is supposed to be destructive. I looked at FIPS.EXE, but
> it can't help in my case.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
I ran into this when I was developing partitioning tools a number of
years ago. IF you know exactly what the partitions are supposed to be
AND it was only the paritition tables that have been damaged, then you
probably can restore the beastie with fdisk. However, It does not make
sense that win95 over-wrote your partition table when you hit the power
button. But with microsoft non-sense is the general order of the day
so who knows..
--randy
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