Data recovery.

[Patrick Thurmond]

	If you have something like Partition Magic or System Commander
or GoBack, then the partitions are locked under these programs until the
program is disabled. Usually disabling such programs will give you free
access to the partitions from then on out because they mess with the
Master Boot Record. I have dealt with this type of problem before. In
the case of partition magic, I think you will have to delete all
Non-Windows partitions first and let it resize the FAT32 partition to
fill the entire HDD before disabling the program, otherwise it will be
horked to the bone.

-Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Kurt
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:04 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: Data recovery.

Are the fat32 partition(s) still there? If they are, I
would bet that the bootloader is jacked up and that
the 98 boot disk is probably old and no good. get a
fresh one from bootdisk.com and try again. If you
could boot partition magic, then surely your 98 disk
is trash. I would just repair the windows bootloader,
boot back to windows, and grab all files, then redo
the linux install. Ive done the same thing before. But
again, this all depends on if the fat32 partitons were
wiped out or not. You would have saw them in partition
magic if they still exist. And Im assuming that I read
your post correctly, so correct me if im wrong. let me
know how it goes.

Kurt
 
--- Chris Wagner <ismgr at atchisonkansas.net> wrote:
> Have a gentleman who asked me about a problem he's
> run into.
> 
> He has worked on WordPerfect for many years in a
> Windows environment 
> and recently had received a copy of RH 8 from a son
> who installed it 
> in a dual-boot setting with Win98.
> 
> Apparently he said he had followed all the docs and
> the prompts with 
> this edition of WordPerfect install, but then he
> said he realized 
> that the installer apparently tried to install its
> own version of 
> Corel Linux in order to run WP.
> 
> Well, to say the least, it hosed the system as far
> as I can tell.
> 
> Can't boot the system with a Win98 floppy nor will
> the boot make it 
> to the point a LILO prompt.
> 
> At this point, he's willing to scrap the Linux side,
> but all his 
> files are on that Win32 partition.
> 
> Apparently another gentleman tried to use Partition
> Magic to check 
> the partitions, but I'm not sure about what was
> really done.
> 
> To sum it up, it sounds to me like he's at a loss.
> 
> One quick question, in addition to ANY feedback you
> all have:
> 
> Could you hook up that drive as a secondary in
> another PC and copy 
> the files onto another drive, then wipe it and start
> over?
> 
> I guess I'm wondering if the Windows file system
> isn't all screwed up 
> now, too, especially since he's getting errors when
> trying to boot 
> from the Win98 floppy.
> 
> Any suggestions/ideas?
> 
> Thanks, all.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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