Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

[ktb <xyf@inetnebr.com>]

ktb wrote:
> 
> "Allan M. Wind" wrote:
> >
> > On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote:
> >
> > > I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems.  I decided to patition the
> > > HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on
> > > it.  I tried using fdisk under "dos" but it wouldn't let me delete the
> > > current partition so I used the Slink installation disk and cfdisk to
> > > partition my HD.  I cut the disk in half and added one partition "Win95
> > > FAT32 (LBA)" which was what it was before except that it took up the
> > > whole disk.  I marked it as bootable.  I then attempted to install W98
> > > and got the message "no HD found."  I went into the bios setup and the
> > > disk can't be detected.  I switched it to "auto" but no improvement.  I
> > > used the Slink installation cd again and found  I get the message "FATAL
> > > ERROR: Cannot read disk drive Press any key to exit fdisk."  I have no
> > > installation disks for this HD.  It is the HD that came with the
> > > system.  What the heck do I do now?
> >
> > You did use something to resize that win98 parition with besides
> > cfdisk, right?  There's a tool called fips that can do the magic and
> > perhaps fsresize.
> 
> OK I found fips but this is used to partition a drive that has a usable
> Windows disk.  I have written this new partition table to the disk and
> it has made my disk unreadable, in fact now seen.  I'm not sure this
                                              ^^^^^
                                  Should be "not seen" sorry.
                                   kent