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  From: MWP <hirm@chariot.net.au>
  To  : linuxsa <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:41:22 +0930

Re: Can anyone help me fix my hard drive

 Hi...
Big oops hey?

Depending on how big your hdd is (and how big 1% is) youve probably lost all
the important FS stuff. You would have lost your boot-sector, MBR, partition
tables and if your FAT partition was first, its FAT and root dir. Im not
sure what the format of Ext2 partitions are, but you have most probably lost
everything on your dos partition. You could try using Nortons Disk Edit to
recover some data from the dos partition, but you need to know what your
doing and the structure of msdos FAT32 paritions.

If you know where the Ext2 partition started (sector no) and none of it was
erased, you might be able to use gnu's fdisk to recover it.

MWP

> > I have accidently formatted 1% of it.
> > there are some Windows partitions and a Redhat and
> > Caldera partition.
> > Can any of the partitions be fixed?
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