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  From: Jake Hawkes <jake@eclectic.com.au>
  To  : nickm@ior.org.au
  Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:31:05 +0930

Re: FAT32 Partition Lost

partition magic is also worth taking a look at.

does anyone know the legal status of this? i have access to version

Nick Morrison wrote:
> 
> 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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