* Bob Thibodeau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Sometime between midnight and 10am, > while powered off, the W98 box > at work lost its primary partition.
While *powered off*??? That usually means a) peecee was hit by lightning and is fried, or b) disk is dead. By "lost its primary partition", do you mean that other partition(s) on that disk are still accessible? (boggle) If it's b), you may be able to get it to spin up. If you're lucky, it will work long enough to mount the partition and copy everything. > I'm reinstalling on a spare drive right > now, and I'm not very optimistic > about finding a 'doze tool that will > help me find any data that might > still be there. Norton's disk tools used to be very good at this. I hear they aren't anymore, but I'm sure there are alternatives. Maybe even free/shareware. Dima -- We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris King -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
