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Article #365Re: Lost partition
From: Bryce Tanner
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:51
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:51
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Hi bud I'm assuming that the lost partition had windows 2000 on it. If this is the case, then... Boot from your windows 2000 cd-rom Hit "R" for repair system Select the Repair Console type "help" at the command prompt there should be a command called "bootfix" or "fixboot" or something like that......run it this should rewrite the Windows 2000 bootsector for you after that write the Linux boot loader to the correct volume Bryce "preamp" <preamp@spamblock.dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message news:3a973ada$0$25511$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au... > > I just installed Mandrake 7.2 and due to (I think) a stupid mistake of > mine, I have lost a FAT32 partition. (no biggie, as it was a > data/application volume only and I have backups of everything that can't be > reinstalled) > > What happened (again I think) is that I told the install to write the boot > manager to /hda5 instead of /hdb5 (where Linux really was). Anyway, now if > I try to mount /hda5 - this is the result... > > [root@localhost /root]# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/temp -t vfat > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, > or too many mounted file systems > > > Windows (2000) thinks it is an unformatted partition. > > Is it gone for good...or it there a way to get it back? > > >
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