From: vherva@niksula.hut.fi (Ville Herva) Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Lost partition table (Was: Re: Anybody Running GNU-Win32 on NT 5 ?) 20 Aug 1998 18:41:53 -0700 Message-ID: <19980818202505.A27419.cygnus.gnu-win32@niksula.cs.hut.fi> References: <199808161113.HAA00844@smtp3.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Greg Humphreys , gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 05:31:04PM -0700, you [Greg Humphreys] claimed: > Sure am. I've been running GNU-Win32 on NT 5 for about a month now, with no > problems. However, NT 5 ate its partition table a couple of days ago, > destroying itself *and* Linux simultaneously, so it's gone now. > > Word to the wise: don't try to write CD's on the NT 5 beta, unless your > partition table isn't important to you :) Having had partition table erased by the NT 4 installation program, I might suggest you not lose your hope yet when it comes to saving the Linux installation. I had a Linux partition filled with a tremendously working Linux installation at the time I was installing NT. After the partition table was erased I was a bit shocked because I couldn't even remember the partition size accurately. However, I decided to give it a try, and booted with a Linux floppy. I made a new partition table with fdisk, estimation roughly the parameters of the ext2fs partition. Then I calmly tried to mount the partition, and behold, it worked. Linux did complain something about wrong size of the partition, but it was easy to cure with a simple iteration. (I had estimated the size off by tens of megs.) So, although I'm more cynical about your ntfs, I suggest you don't lose your hope with ext2fs. -- v -- v@iki.fi - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".