[Wolves] Hello - first post from me !

[Steve Parkes]

On 5 May 2005, at 13:20, Tim Childe wrote:

> ps I'm not going to give up on linux this time, as I think I'm going
> to be teaching it next year !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sounds cool, where do you teach? I might drop by and see if any jobs 
are in the offing I've been considering a return to a few hours 
teaching next term ;-)

as for the disk.  It should be possible to boot from a rescue disk 
(such as a linux live cd) and have a look around.  It might be possible 
to mount the partition if you force it's type (probably FAT32 on 
win98se, but might be FAT16 on a smallish partition).  If this is 
possible then no panic it should be possible to save it.

If you can't get it to mount from a rescue cd then everything from here 
is at your own risk and might bugger things up even more ;-)

As the risk taking sort I would fdisk the drive and change the 
partition to the type I think it is and then attempt to mount it.  this 
might make things worse because any problems could make the partition 
table even less like reality than it is already.  This shouldn't make 
things worse as your are only changing a couple of bits in the 
partition table and not writing anything to the data areas of the drive 
(at least as defined in the buggered partition table) but while that's 
alright in theory practice often shags theory up the arse while talking 
on the phone to his mom and all things can happen in real life.

If this doesn't work, it might be buggered after all and as it's only 
the OS and programs and not your data that have gone astray a reinstall 
would be the easiest option.  It might not be a quick and easy fix but 
at least you've gone through all this at least once before as you now 
keep your data safe.


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> Tim.C

HTH

sparkes