Re: wfwg 3.11 trashed my partition table
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> Brian wrote,
>
> > *- 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.
>
> > See if http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/980823/1311207.shtml
> > provides any help. The topic of this discussion is "Corrupted Hard Drive".
>
> thanks; this helped greadly. The answer is, "yes", if you remember
the partition information, for the e2fs file system. THe dos fat
sectors didn't seem to make it, though :( But i only tried this on the
harrd drive, not the zip; i'm still waiting for an answer there >
1) Can you please not write paragraphs all on one line. Your composer
might be wrapping the text for your eyes, but it's not wrapping it
for the rest of us.
2) "regardless of what it put on /dev/hda2". Is that why your
dos fat sectors didn't make it?
3) AIUI zip disks are partitioned just like ordinary ones, with one
exception: they are supplied with a single partition, but it's
partition number 4.
You should be able to recreate this effect with fdisk, though not
with cfdisk.
Cheers,
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