From: domanspc AT juno DOT com To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 01:33:56 -0800 Subject: Re: is my partition table hopelessly ruined? Message-ID: <19990315.013513.9846.1.domanspc@juno.com> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19990315153750 DOT 00988100 AT es DOT co DOT nz> X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 2,13-14,20,22-25,28-50 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com the reason you had so much trouble finding info on fdisk/mbr is because it is an unwritten process in ms/pcdos, and I did't find it in my novell dos 7 manual but it appears as menu item 5) in dr/novell dos. using this option replaces the the existing mbr with the novell/drdos 'standard' mbr..it may not work properly but the original mbr is saved as a hidden, read-only file "oldmbr.bin", in the root directory . when things turn to dust on your next re-boot you can restore your old mbr by using fdisk again and choosing 5) restore master boot record. I 'assume' all your partitions are all 16 bit fat. dos don't like nt or other long filename fats ergo fat 32 and that may be one reason you have lost sight of some partitions. If you have access to the last dos version of norton disk doctor it will recover almost any partition made with dos. tho I don't know about linux, and nt partitions will problably need a special nt version. you also mentioned trouble with netware. my novell class stressed that all netware partitions should be on the last partition on a disk (non dos). Last I heard there was still a problem with nt and netware because 'uncle bill' purposely wrote nt to conflict with netware. so that could also be part of your netware problem.. you problably should go to novell to check on compatability problems, if you can ever get back up. when you get it back up I would put nt on its own disk, just for safety sake, and put linux after dos and before netware on the first drive. good luck, bob 'doman' moss...signing in from the north side of california. Put chocolate at the top of your list of things to do today and you will get at least one thing done right .. 'remember, if you don't have chocolate you don't have food'!! ------------------------------------ On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:37:50 +1300 Ray Greene writes: >As it happens I was having major problems of a similar kind yesterday. >My >machine was hanging after LI appeared on the screen, then it wouldn't >boot >at all. >I eventually remembered the fdisk/mbr command and that fixed the >problem >for me. > >If you can't get it to work, Spinrite (http://grc.com) will supposedly >recover data from any drive that the computer recognises, even if the >computer can't access it. >I was about 5 minutes away from buying it :-) > >Good luck. > >Ray Greene. > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]