messed up partition table reinstalling windows 98

Brian Astill bastill at adam.com.au
Mon Apr 30 04:13:47 UTC 2007


On Monday 30 April 2007 12:01, j arwood wrote:
> Alex Janssen wrote:

> >> She has an 8 GB HDD and now fdisk is only showing 2
> >> partitions: Partition 1 as an Extended DOS partition 353 MB
> >> 	Partition 2 as a Primary DOS partition 24 MB With a status
> >> of A (active I'm assuming)
> >>
> >> it Then goes on to say:
> >> 	Total disk space is 8056 MB (which should be correct for a
> >> 8 GB drive) The Extended DOS Partition contains Logical DOS
> >> Drives
> >>
> >> when I display the logical drive info I get:
> >> 	No logical drives defined
> >> 	Total Extended DOS partition size is 353 MB

THE tool for this is Partition Magic.  Get some kind person to 
lend you thier 2 floppy disk set  and away you go!
I haven't found anything as sure and reliable.

-- 
Regards,
Brian




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