Re: Disaster! I formated my dos from linux

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From: Justin
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:00

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hoon kang (h-kang1@students.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: Please help!
: 
: As a computer novice not knowing what I'm doing, I made one of the 
: biggest mistakes while I was installing the Red Hat Linux.
: While in the control panel's file manager I accidentally formated my 
: windos95(msdos) partition with ex2fs.  My guess is, I did something like 
: mke2fs /dev/hda1  where my dos was.  Now if anyone could help me undo 
: what I did or salvage my stuff in dos,  I would be grateful.  

gone I'm afraid, hope you didn't lose anything of great value

-- 
        Justin Brymer  Email: brymer@[arcadia/yallara].cs.rmit.edu.au
      "I just want to live life and be dumb and happy like an American"
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From: brymer@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au (Justin)
Subject: Re: Disaster! I formated my dos from linux
Date: 1997/07/15
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