Help! Drive reset to "NON-DOS" partition

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From: totem
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:00

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Help!

I'm running a 166MMX , Win95, 2,5Gb drive.
Today I rebooted and the next thing I saw was "Invalid drive".

I booted off a floppy and ran "Fdisk"  which reported my drive
correctly but tells me that it is set to a NON-DOS partition.

Could this be a virus? I am running Norton's Antivirus updated from
their web-site last week. 
No program or emergency disk sees the hard drive.

Does anyone have any advice? Is this thing repairable?
I'm at a complete loss as what to do next.

If you can help *please* e-mail me urgently.

Thanks in advance.

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From: totem@ibi.co.za
Subject: Help! Drive reset to "NON-DOS" partition
Date: 1997/07/22
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