On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: > Upon reboot, lilo came up and gave me my options of linux or Win95, and > linux starts just fine. Win95 however does a repeating "Loading Windows, > LILO, Loading Windows, LILO ....". > > When I try to mount the Win partition in Linux, it says there's no msdos > type or vfat type partitions. About this time I start remembering that > maybe the Win drive is double-spaced. > > So I boot off a Win95 floppy and try to access the C: drive and get an > "Invalid media type" error. I run Win95's fdisk and it reports the > partition as UNKNOWN. "Great," I think, "just great!" > > Does anyone know how I can recover my Win95 partition so my family can have > their toy back?
I don't know anything about double space, but the commercial program called Partition Magic has been a lifesaver at times for me on all kinds of systems. Perhaps it recognizes double spaced partitions? Anyway, you could also look at the available disk recovery utilities from Peter Norton. I can't think of an OSS or freeware alternative off the top of my head. [You mean you didn't back up your disk? Tsk tsk... :-)] Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept.
