Apologies for the shrapnel postings ;-)<br><br>I've just discovered the linux fdisk - hey, I said I was a beginner!!<br><br>I have got this from it...<br><br>Disk /dev/hde: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
<br>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br><br>
Device
Boot Start
End Blocks
Id System<br>/dev/hde1
*
1 1275 10241406
c W95 FAT32 (LBA)<br>/dev/hde2 1276 4982 29776477+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)<br>/dev/hde5 1276 3825 20482843+ b W95 FAT32<br>/dev/hde6 3826 4982
9293571 b W95 FAT32<br>
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I don't remember hde2 being there, in fact I'm sure it wasn't.<br>
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So, I think I have the culprit, now what do I do to get it back without killing my partition off ???????<br>
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Tim.C<br><br><br>On 5/5/05, Tim Childe <<a href="mailto:tim.childe.lists@gmail.com">tim.childe.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Well, under Ubuntu Live I can still mount all my vfat partitions and<br>> they have my data on.
<br>> <br>> I have got something i don't remember<br>> <br>> cat /proc/partitions<br>> <br>> gives hde2 with 1 block - I don't remember this !!!!!!<br>> <br>> Hmmmmm<br>> <br>> Also, I can't find my edited fstab to see if the numbers have changed
<br>> - the one currently in /etc/fstab isn't the one I put the exttra<br>> drives in!!!!<br>> <br>> At least it looks hopeful for a rescue attempt.<br>> <br>> Now, to make my brain go back a few years when i did this stuff all
<br>> the time .........<br>> <br>> Tim.C<br>> <br>> On 5/5/05, Andy Wootton <<a href="mailto:andy.wootton@wyrley.demon.co.uk">andy.wootton@wyrley.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> > Tim Childe wrote:
<br>> ><br>> > >...<br>> > >Realising it was now after midnight (by a long way) I decided to stuff<br>> > >linux and get windows back - so I booted off a Win98 boot floppy, and<br>> > >fdisk /mbr 'd it.
<br>> > ><br>> > >Now on reboot it went to the disk and just went<br>> > ><br>> > >GRUB<br>> > ><br>> > >I rebooted from floppy and tried to access my c drive and got the not
<br>> > >formatted error (general failure reading drive c) which is when I<br>> > >checked with fdisk and saw it was type UNKNOWN<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > I've seen the GRUB message when I've wiped the bootable partition but
<br>> > GRUB is still in the MBR.<br>> ><br>> > When you install Grub you have a choice of installing it on a partition<br>> > (to be picked by the bootable flag using FDISK) or on the MBR<br>> > Is there any chance you installed it onto your Win partition? That might
<br>> > mean the original MBR still exists but is jumping to where it expected<br>> > to find Win but would find a non-functioning Grub instead. Windows<br>> > wouldn't know what to make of it so would say it was type unknown. This
<br>> > is only a theory and I don't know how to get Windows back if I'm right.<br>> ><br>> > The best way forward would seem to be:<br>> > a) Change the boot flag using your Win98 boot floppy to anything that
<br>> > might boot<br>> > or<br>> > b) Iinstall Grub on the MBR and get it booting your Linux partition.<br>> > Please don't do anythng without a second opinion. I'm far from confident<br>> > that I'm right.
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</a><br>> ><br>> <br>> --<br>> Tim.C<br>> <br><br><br>-- <br>Tim.C<br>