[Wolves] Hello - first post from me !

[Tim Childe]

Apologies for the shrapnel postings ;-)

I've just discovered the linux fdisk - hey, I said I was a beginner!!

I have got this from it...

Disk /dev/hde: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 1275 10241406 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hde2 1276 4982 29776477+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hde5 1276 3825 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hde6 3826 4982 9293571 b W95 FAT32

I don't remember hde2 being there, in fact I'm sure it wasn't.

So, I think I have the culprit, now what do I do to get it back without 
killing my partition off ???????

Tim.C


On 5/5/05, Tim Childe <tim.childe.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, under Ubuntu Live I can still mount all my vfat partitions and
> they have my data on.
> 
> I have got something i don't remember
> 
> cat /proc/partitions
> 
> gives hde2 with 1 block - I don't remember this !!!!!!
> 
> Hmmmmm
> 
> Also, I can't find my edited fstab to see if the numbers have changed
> - the one currently in /etc/fstab isn't the one I put the exttra
> drives in!!!!
> 
> At least it looks hopeful for a rescue attempt.
> 
> Now, to make my brain go back a few years when i did this stuff all
> the time .........
> 
> Tim.C
> 
> On 5/5/05, Andy Wootton <andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Tim Childe wrote:
> >
> > >...
> > >Realising it was now after midnight (by a long way) I decided to stuff
> > >linux and get windows back - so I booted off a Win98 boot floppy, and
> > >fdisk /mbr 'd it.
> > >
> > >Now on reboot it went to the disk and just went
> > >
> > >GRUB
> > >
> > >I rebooted from floppy and tried to access my c drive and got the not
> > >formatted error (general failure reading drive c) which is when I
> > >checked with fdisk and saw it was type UNKNOWN
> > >
> > >
> > I've seen the GRUB message when I've wiped the bootable partition but
> > GRUB is still in the MBR.
> >
> > When you install Grub you have a choice of installing it on a partition
> > (to be picked by the bootable flag using FDISK) or on the MBR
> > Is there any chance you installed it onto your Win partition? That might
> > mean the original MBR still exists but is jumping to where it expected
> > to find Win but would find a non-functioning Grub instead. Windows
> > wouldn't know what to make of it so would say it was type unknown. This
> > is only a theory and I don't know how to get Windows back if I'm right.
> >
> > The best way forward would seem to be:
> > a) Change the boot flag using your Win98 boot floppy to anything that
> > might boot
> > or
> > b) Iinstall Grub on the MBR and get it booting your Linux partition.
> > Please don't do anythng without a second opinion. I'm far from confident
> > that I'm right.
> >
> > Woo
> >
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> --
> Tim.C
> 


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Tim.C
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