Re: Hard Disk Partition Recovery
Keep in mind that dos 6.22 is only a 16 bit system and linux is 32 bit so
if a 32 bit system writes to the partition table a 16 bit system may not
be able to access the boot secter. keep in mind that dos can only read 2
partitions from the primary and linux can read 4
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Massimiliano Ferrero wrote:
> > I can't figure out that how I can see everything fine under Linux but not
> > under DOS.....how do I get things working correctly?? Any ideas would be
> > appreciated.
>
> Had a similar problem some times ago: after removing a boot loader
> (system commander lite) I found my C: drive was not accessible anymore
> from DOS or Windows.
>
> It was accessible using linux by booting from rescue disk or knoppix,
> but it was not booting from HD, whichever boot loader I used (lilo,
> grub, DOS, ...).
>
> After several hours I discovered that the boot sector of the inaccesible
> partition was damaged: linux seems not to care about this, seems like he
> just read the partition table before mounting the partition, but DOS or
> Windows refused to mount it.
>
> I solved by copying everything on a second HD and then regenerating the
> boot sector (FDISK /MBR).
>
> Maybe your problem is similar.
>
> Regards
> Massimiliano
>
>
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