🚀 go-pugleaf

I also, once, got this message, said "Repair", and watched my partition table
get destroyed.  It took me several days of hard work (using a low-level disk
scanner and partition table fixer) to reset the partition table to the correct
values.

What has happened is that NAV noticed that the partition table changed,
probably because you did some stuff with NT4 and it didn't inform NAV.  When
NAV restarted, it noticed the change and prompted you.  At this point, the
partition table, although changed, was correct, and reflected the (changed)
state of your disk.  If you had chosen "inoculate", NAV would have saved the
new information.  But when you chose "repair", it overwrote your (correct)
partition table with the "old" information.

This can be undone, but you need to proceed carefully.  The first thing to do
is to NOT USE THE DISK, if at all possible, certainly try to minimize the
amount of writing you do to it.  [I do realize this is difficult to do -- in my
case, I had a spare drive, on which I installed Win98 fresh, plus the "fixit"
utilities, and mounted my now-"repaired" drive as a slave.  I told the fixit
routine to put it in read-only mode, figured out where my partitions really
were, double-checked everything (Excel was very helpful in this, helping me
build the information needed to reset the table).  I then enabled writing to
the disk, made one change (only!), copying down the "old" information so I
could undo things, then brought Windows back up to look at the disk.  When the
missing partition re-appeared, I knew I was on the right track.  Back to the
utility, make more changes, check in Windows.  It was very nerve-wracking, but
I was ultimately successful.  Incidently, the utility I used was Norton
DiskEdit (I figure since Norton got me into this mess, it could get me out).  I
don't want to have to do this again!

Bob Schor

MJ Lee wrote:

> my NT4 lives with win98. today, when i was in win98 system, the norton
> anti-virus pop-up asking me did i recently install a newer operation
> system... if not, suggest you to either inoculate or repair your bootting
> area... i chose to "repair". then my drive e: disappearred.
>
> my situation is:
> my physical 2nd hard disk was splitted into drive d and drive e. win98 uses
> only drive d, and nt4 uses drive c and e. they're all FAT16.
> norton detect that drive e is incompatible with win98, i guess, then ask me
> to "repair" its, i guess again, partition area. as a result, norton release
> the space of drive e to drive d.
>
> i checked my norton, there is no tool for me to undo this operation. can
> somebody tell me any way to recover my drive e? even suggestion is very
> appreciated.