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Broken partition – Help me Svend please!
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The Dell laptop has 1 3 Gb hard drive with 2 partitions Partition 1 had Win 95 9about 1.2Gb in size) Partition has/had win2000 (1803Mb in size) I need the data files on partition 2 The system was booting on partition 2 (win2000) One day it got ntldr is missing After much tinkering the system now will boot Redhat linux 8 on partition 1 only. Partition 2 is not really available. Some of the gory details about the tinkering The dir command worked successfully on the second partition to start with Chkdsk was run and the dir command produced unreadable characters for the files listed There was a period when the second partition could not even be seen, the system also wouldn't even boot off a floppy! There don't appear to be any hardware errors on the disk The first partition was deleted and recreated using linux's fdisk The dir command then worked on the second partition but there were still unreadable characters Eventually linux was installed on the first partition Findpart was run, here is the output: Findpart, version 4.36. Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2003. Searches for partitions type 01, 04, 06, 07, 0B, 0C, 0E, 82, 83, plus Fdisk F6 and Lilo sectors. Information based on bootsectors is marked B. If the disk is larger than supported by BIOS, the supported part of the disk is examined. Disks are numbered from 1. OS: DOS 8.00 Disk: 1 Cylinders: 788 Heads: 128 Sectors: 63 MB: 3103 -PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS 0 - 83 63 201537 98 0 1 1 24 127 63 B5 3 OK 0 - 83 725760 1935360 945 90 0 1 329 127 63 B0 3 OK 330 1 06 63 3693249 1803 330 1 1 787 127 63 NB OK 330 - 0B 63 3693249 1803 330 1 1 787 127 63 B OK 330 - 0B 63 65280 31 330 1 1 338 13 12 BU OK -----FAT CHS -Size Cl --Root -Good -Rep. Maybe --Bad YYMMDD DataMB 330 1 33 226 32* 512 195 0 27 4 16 Partitions according to partition tables on first harddisk: -PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS 0 1*83 63 201537 98 0 1 1 24 127 63 OK 3 OK 0 2 05 2661120 3693312 1803 330 0 1 787 127 63 OK 0 3 82 201600 524160 255 25 0 1 89 127 63 OK 0 4 83 725760 1935360 945 90 0 1 329 127 63 OK 3 OK 330 1 06 63 3693249 1803 330 1 1 787 127 63 NB OK Partition 1 is my /boot, partition 3 is my swap, partition 4 is / (all for linux). I assume 2 is the extended partition and the 1 at 330 is the original second partition from which I need to retrieve data. I am only concerned about retrieving some data on the second partition. Once the data has been retrieved, the disk will be reformatted and the system rebuilt. The first partition can be trashed if it will help retrieve the data from the second partition. Is there any hope or has there been too much tinkering? Thankyou in advance David |
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