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From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: 386bsd partition gone?
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Message-ID: <C6IoE0.1o15@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 19:20:24 GMT
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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
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