Re: Lilo corrupted double-spaced Win95 drive
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote:
> Upon reboot, lilo came up and gave me my options of linux or Win95, and
> linux starts just fine. Win95 however does a repeating "Loading Windows,
> LILO, Loading Windows, LILO ....".
>
> When I try to mount the Win partition in Linux, it says there's no msdos
> type or vfat type partitions. About this time I start remembering that
> maybe the Win drive is double-spaced.
>
> So I boot off a Win95 floppy and try to access the C: drive and get an
> "Invalid media type" error. I run Win95's fdisk and it reports the
> partition as UNKNOWN. "Great," I think, "just great!"
>
> Does anyone know how I can recover my Win95 partition so my family can have
> their toy back?
I don't know anything about double space, but the commercial program
called Partition Magic has been a lifesaver at times for me on all kinds
of systems. Perhaps it recognizes double spaced partitions? Anyway, you
could also look at the available disk recovery utilities from Peter
Norton. I can't think of an OSS or freeware alternative off the top of my
head. [You mean you didn't back up your disk? Tsk tsk... :-)]
Thanks. Syrus.
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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> UCSD Physics Dept.
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