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  From: Nick Morrison <nickm@ior.org.au>
  To  : lai kokcheong" <dot_lai@hotmail.com>, <dot_lai@hotmail.com>
  Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:23:44 +0930

RE: FAT32 Partition Lost

Try Norton's Disk Doctor.  The latest version will understand FAT32
partitions and happily repair as necessary.

But first - make sure, using linux's fdisk, check that the partition type
for your "Drive D" is set to the FAT32 - I think it's "b", from memory.
fdisk will tell you.

Unfortunately, NDD is not free software.  Can anyone suggest any
alternatives?  I actually had a very similar problem after Windows 2000
chewed a disk it wasn't supposed to touch (I dare anyone to say "told you
so") - a combination of linux's fdisk, the Norton Disk Doctor, DOS's fdisk
(the "fdisk /mbr" command) and DOS's "sys" command all worked to fix it.

Scarey stuff.

Beware of Windows.  It's not for those accustomed to a hardy, trustworthy
system.

--
Nick




> I have 1.1 GB as a Fat32 primary and 1.1 GB as an extended partition
> ( a allocate 1.2 GB as a logical drive ).Currently I have 800 Mb
> as a Linux
> native partition .I had free space of 100Mb at both primary and extended
> partition.Before I try to resize my partition I already have defrag my
> harddisk.
> The problem occur when I tried to use the cfdisk
> to upgrade my linux partition size from 800Mb to 1GB ( get 100Mb
> each from
> primary and extended partition).
>
> I delete my linux native partition ( as a primary ) and recreate the
> partition as 1 GB and I choose it as Primary.I works.
>
> But when I boot my Window 95.The D drive is lost? It is detected as
> unformatted !
> How to recover the Data  ?
>
>
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