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Serious partitioning problem

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Ragusa, Aug 13, 2001.

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    [​IMG] Toying around with a computer I made a silly mistake: I deleted the primary DOS-partition.

    Unfortunately the hdd is now invisible for my win98 startdisc and the partition magic rescuediscs.
    Anyone knows a trick or a handy tool to restore the DOS formatting of the hdd ?

    Help & advive needed !!!
     
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    You wouldn't happen to have a second hard drive would you?

    Sorry to ask, but I don't see how someone could accidentally do that. How? I don't mean to make you angry or anything. Please explain in detail what you did and maybe I can help. Otherwise, Fat egg or someone else with more knowledge in this subject can.
     
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    It can't be restored. But I also don't get the problem. Explain it some more. TheHDD should always be visible when correct installed in the Bios...
     
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    (a) no, i don't have a second hdd, just a 3,5" floppy. And worse: It's a notebook :(

    (b) under a dos operating sys the hdd is *only* visible when it is dos-formatted and has a dos-formatted logical dos-drive. Since I deleted it, I just have my 3,5" and the temporarily dos-drive created with the start disc.
     
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    Just do what I usually do when I totally screw up my computer and can't fix it myself: call in a pro! They usually can fix it.

    P.S. with a pro I mean an expert, preferably someone you know, a friend or a family member, because if you call a store or something like that to fix your pc, you'll have to pay for it.

    [This message has been edited by Silverblade (edited August 13, 2001).]
     
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    I'm sure that when I was near the computer now I could fix it. I only don't get the problem exaclty and I also have sometimes problems to describe how to fix it...

    Ahh well just come over to Arnhem, it isn't that far away from Cologne :)
     
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    ok you need to replace the dos partition you have erased. you lost all your data when you erased the primary partition anyhow.

    Use the win boot disk and do fdisk
    put that dos partition back in ...
     
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    Yeah I hope you got a boot disk with the necessary dos-programs on it?
     
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    [​IMG] Thank you all very much for your help, especially Kitiara - it pointed out to be a BIOS-problem .... so my hdd is resurrected so I just have to do the wizard-trick (bootwise) to install win98 on a notebook with eithere a 3,5" *or* a cd-rom :D :mad: ;)
     
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