messed up partition table reinstalling windows 98

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Brian Astill wrote:
> On Monday 30 April 2007 12:01, j arwood wrote:
>   
>> Alex Janssen wrote:
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>   
>>>> 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.
>
>   
I agree..partition magic is great..i definately recommend it. The 
program i use is very similar to partition magic. I use it because its 
an OEM set and, like partition magic, works with a skew of hard drives
--cj