hi all
I regret after installing lilo on /dev/hda1 where my win 98 was installed from /dev/hda2 which is root partition for RH linux bcoz
i configured lilo.conf to install lilo boot loader on /dev/hda1 insted of /dev/hda and that caussedd win98 FAT16 partition's file allocation table get damaged now though the data is there around 1 gb (on 2047 MB partition c:) i am not able to read that drive......Well i have tried scandisk and accessing that drive from another partition
like linux and other win 98 (/dev/hda4) but nothing works!!!!!!!!1
Well how can i get bak my important data??????????
thnkx in advance
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Hi, Try this approach only of nothing else works. There is this linux rescue disk called Knoppix available at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html. Its a live linux filesystem on the cd, meaning that u could run the entire OS (including X - KDE and Open Office). You can use this cd to boot into your computer. Since this cd has the ability to see most types of partition, including NTFS, u can then backup whatever data u want, either on a spare drive, cd or on a server. HTH, Bhargav Bhatt, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University.
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, upendra gandhi wrote:
hi all
I regret after installing lilo on /dev/hda1 where my win 98 was installed from /dev/hda2 which is root partition for RH linux bcoz
i configured lilo.conf to install lilo boot loader on /dev/hda1 insted of /dev/hda and that caussedd win98 FAT16 partition's file allocation table get damaged now though the data is there around 1 gb (on 2047 MB partition c:) i am not able to read that drive......Well i have tried scandisk and accessing that drive from another partition
like linux and other win 98 (/dev/hda4) but nothing works!!!!!!!!1
Well how can i get bak my important data??????????
Okay, so this is what I would do .. standard disclaimers apply !!
Though it is quite unlikely that your data should become inaccessible just because lilo overwrote the mbr. How have you tried accessing it ? You are a bit vague here. anyway..here goes..
from linux
lilo -u
then boot from a win 98 boot disk and do
fdisk /mbr
this will rewrite the windows mbr.
after this, boot from the Linux install CD, choose upgrade, uncheck all the packages and this will re-install lilo. This time make sure you load lilo on the mbr of the linux partition.
How have you managed to get win 98 on /dev/hda4 ? or is that just an extra partition for win 98.
If you don't feel too confident, maybe posting the output of
echo p | fdisk /dev/hda
would help.
regards,
Sharukh.
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Bhargav Bhatt -
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. -
upendra gandhi