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  From: Nick Morrison <nickm@ior.org.au>
  To  : Jake Hawkes <jake@eclectic.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:51:46 +0930

RE: FAT32 Partition Lost

Partition Magic is commercial.

It's also very dodgy and dangerous - use with extreme caution.  Always
reboot after a partition resize etc etc, and make sure you know exactly what
you're doing.

But will Partition Magic correct the "Windows can't read this partition"
problem?

-
Nick


> 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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> Jake Hawkes, B. Eng (CSE)
>
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