Re: wfwg 3.11 trashed my partition table

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote about "wfwg 3.11 trashed my partition table"
| 
| thanks, bill.
| 
| I tried to install windows for workgroups from diskette on my thinkpad, on the 
| existing dos partition.
| 
| regardless of what it put on /dev/hda2, it trashed my partition tables.
| 
| If I reenter the same valued for the partititons, will my e2fs partition 
| survive?  or do I have to reinstall.
| 
| For that matter, the same question for dos:  when my zip died, it trashed the 
| partition table of the disk in the drive, as well as the next I tried to 
| insert (which is why i was trying to install from a stray stack of disks 
| rather than my backup).  Assuming the files itself weren't trashed, can I 
| recover this (Okay, I shouldn't have bought an iomega product, but at the 
| time, it let me continue to use the old powerbook for the kids rather than my 
| wife running off & spending $3k on a new machine :)

See if http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/980823/1311207.shtml
provides any help.  The topic of this discussion is "Corrupted Hard Drive".


-- 
Brian 
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