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Article #16705Fdisk and partitions question
From: Donald Chisholm
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:11
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:11
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If there is someone out there who knows EXACTLY what fdisk does I'd like some help on the following problem: Recently my system lost the primary partition information somehow, my primary partition shows up as a Non-Dos one. My question is will fdisk destroy the information on that partition if I delete it and set it back up as primary dos of exactly the same size? I'm hoping if I do this and not format the partition the system may be able to boot again provided other information was not destroyed. To sum up I'd like to restate the partition information, but not format, and recover that partition's data. Reply by E-mail please, Don
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!concert!gatech!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!nstn.ns.ca!cs.dal.ca!tangier.cs.dal.ca!donaldc From: donaldc@tangier.cs.dal.ca (Donald Chisholm) Subject: Fdisk and partitions question Message-ID: <C1HEz2.4Fo@cs.dal.ca> Sender: usenet@cs.dal.ca (USENET News) Nntp-Posting-Host: tangier.cs.dal.ca Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:11:26 GMT Lines: 14