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Fdisk and partitions question

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From: Donald Chisholm
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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