Re: Lilo corrupted double-spaced Win95 drive - Fixed
Kent West wrote:
> This isn't exactly a Debian question, but maybe you can help.
>
> First off, DOH!
>
> Secondly, I've got two drives in my box; the master is running Win95 and is
> apparently double-spaced. I know, I know, doublespace is just asking for
> trouble, but it was the only option I had for more drive space.
>
> I had forgotten the drive was doublespaced.
>
> I installed potato on the second drive, and then decided to install lilo.
> The first time around, lilo gave me the message that my BIOS might not boot
> from the second drive. I said "OK" and continued on. Upon reboot, Win95
> came up just fine, but I never got a LILO prompt.
>
> So I went back and reconfigured lilo.conf so that one or two of the lines
> that were referring to hdb1 now referred to hda1. (I don't have the
> computer or files at hand right now.) I think it was either/both/allthree
> the boot= line and/or the install= line and/or the root= line.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks.
Just wanted to let everyone know, this is now fixed. Good ol' Norton Utilities for
Win95 to the rescue. Saw I had a "corrupt" boot sector, offered to fix it, did, and
now everything is dandy.
Once I got the system up, I realized that the Win drive was NOT doublespaced. So what
I did/lilo did to the MBR/partition is beyond me, but it's fixed now.
Now I'm using the [menu] option in DOS/Windows' CONFIG.SYS for my boot manager,
calling loadlin as needed to fire up Linux. Works great.
Thanks everyone!
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