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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!portal.austin.ibm.com!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!guyd From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson) Subject: Re: 386bsd partition gone? Originator: guyd@pal500.austin.ibm.com Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id) Message-ID: <C6IoE0.1o15@austin.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 19:20:24 GMT References: <C6GyAG.L9r@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us> Organization: IBM Austin Lines: 46 In article <C6GyAG.L9r@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us>, dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David Fox) writes: > This morning, I went to the computer and found that the > 386bsd partition was gone! :( > > Apparently, my brother had done something with DOS 6.0's defrag, > found some errors, and suddenly the FDISK reports only one partition > on the disk. > > Basically, I don't think that the filesystem is gone - I just can't > get to it. I tried Norton, but I can't seem to get it to display the > partition table (not sure which sector it is). > > Basically, all I think I need to do is create another partition, and > then change the partition ID to what 386bsd wants (165) but I'm not > sure where that byte is. > > If this has happened to others, am I going about it the right way? I managed to trash the partition table on my IDE disk that I share between MS-DOS 6 and BSD/386 ( the commercial one ). I used Norton to rebuild the partition table - I had the details written down. The Norton ( V5.0 - old ) has an option to look at and edit the partition table of a disk. I just used the editor to re-create the partition table and my DOS and BSD partitions re-appeared! Don't create new partitions ( useing fdisk etc ) as this will probable destory the existing ones. > > Assistance will be appreciated. > > > -- > David E. Fox email: hip-hop!dfox@amdahl.com > 5479 Castle Manor Drive > San Jose, CA 95129 Thanks for letting me change the magnetic > 408/ 253-7992 images on your hard drive. Guy -- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Dawson - Hoskyns Group Plc. guyd@hoskyns.co.uk Tel Hoskyns UK - 71 251 2128 guyd@austin.ibm.com Tel IBM Austin USA - 512 838 3377