🚀 go-pugleaf

I find my self in the jam.....again.  If anyone can help with this, you'll
be blessed, promise :)

Situation: I have a 20GB disk with a 18GB Windows 2000 SP2 NTFS partition in
the middle, 47MB before and about 500MB after (don't even wonder why, but I
got the pc used)
:: I now cannot boot or access old data from the NTFS partition. Can I
rescue the data or get it to boot again?

|--- 47MB FAT ---|--- 18GB NTFS ---|--- 500MB FAT ---|

The story behind:
I wanted to resize the NTFS partition so that I could dual boot Mandrake
Linux 8.2. Using DiskDrake the resizing is no problem, just that Windows
will not boot after, saying INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (stop 7B Ithink). With
DiskDrake I save a copy of the Partition table on a floppy.
So the clever young man I am, I figure I can use a repair disk from Windows
or the Recovery Console to "fix" Windows, or eventaly do a reinstallation in
another directory and then copy the data out.

I did some testing which didn't work and then I just entered DiskDrake and
restored the partition table and could boot Windows 200 again. Fine. But, I
don't know when to quit so now I can't access alot of my old data.

Partition Magic 5.01 starts saying LBA and CHS values arenot the same, but I
think that msg is not important. PM also says the partition is HPFS or FAT
depending on wether I say Yes to the fix.
Windows 2000 Recovery Console also says the partition is FAT. Win98 boot
disk's FDISK says the it is NTFS....

Is there anything I can do myself, or some software (preferably free) that
could help, Windows or Linux based.

Taking the laptop on vacation is so nice, you can sit and play with it for
hours and hours, all night, and the lady is not mad at me at all....Coming
back from holiday exhausted, with grey hair and probably single...and of
course the sun is shining.

Leik
lars-eik@online.no