> I have an old computer that has 800MB windoze partition and > 400 MB linux partition. While my sister was using windows today, > it crashed and damaged the partition information. > boot into the rescue linux system. run "cfdisk -z". if you exactly know your old partitioning, then simply reproduce it. if not, then make the whole disk one big partition (type fat16 or fat32/win95 [possibly lba]). this should give you access tho the windoze data. if you have lilo installed in the mbr, then re-run it (if you were able to recover the linux partition). if not, then you would probably have to run "fdisk /mbr" after booting into dos. if you´re unlucky, then more than only the partition table has been destroyed ...
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