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I did that - ONCE!!
Since then I've learnt to use Partition Magic for any changes that I make
to any of my disks -It's seems so much more reliable and allows U to be
less prone to making mistakes particularly when U have a Multi - Os PC.
Having said that I used Norton Utilities on my Win95
partition to restore the table - might be a bit of a problem if you don't
have it &/or don't have current rescue disks though!!!

DAVID

Grae Noble <c9709748@engmail.newcastle.edu.au> wrote in article
<66g2d0$5ok$1@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>...
> 
> I decided to reinstall RH 4.2 from scratch so I backed up all the files I
> wanted to keep, shutdown, and put in the InfoMagic cd and went to
dos,loaded
> up RH autoboot and went into linux fdisk to scrub my linux partition.
> I got a list of partitions from 'p' and then pressed 'd' to delete the
> partition (in this case hda4 , for some reason the RH install changes the
> type from 83 to 93 'Amoeba' when it formats and this was the only one not
> DOS or swap). I rechecked the table and it was fine so I wrote the table
and
> exited...
> After a reboot I went into windows95 to do a bit of a check to see if
things
> were alright (i had one of those ono'second feelings ,i.e. the time it
takes
> between pressing enter and saying OhNooooo!!!) and what's this!!! where
the
> @#@$%^& has my D: gone. After a check in partitionmagic i can confirm
that
> some how I'd managed to wipe the insides of my extended partition. About
1GB
> as compared to the 512mb patition I had intended to kill. I'm certain I
> didn't get the two confused.
> 
> 
> Can I restore the partition table??? I'm desperate!!!
> TIA...
> Grae
> 
> PS on second thought, I might have hit 5 instead of 4
> >and i didn't wipe the extended partition, but the logical drive inside
it
> and no I haven't written anything over it yet (I hope)
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