Hi Kenneth: No, I am not sure, of course. I had something similar happen to me once as well. Fortunately, gpart fixed that one...but it did happen after I ran FDISK.
I don't believe he HAD a problem except that NTFS4DOS didn't recognize the XP partition. Are there any FreeDOS tools that just DISPLAY the partition information? How about save and restore it? I know some of the Linux tools, but not DOS. Thanks! Mark > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, all: > > > > I just suggested that someone who was having trouble with > > NTFS4DOS not recognizing an NTFS partition run fdisk with the > > development kernel. > > > > I requested that he enable large disk support and use option > > [4], "List Partition Information." > > > > This appears to have removed the partition information from the > > MBR. > > Are you sure fdisk did this and that wasn't his problem to begin with? > or something else related to his problem caused the error? > > > > > Anyone have any ideas about this? Is FDISK so dangerous that > > even using it to examine partition tables is a bad idea? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Mark Bailey > > > I haven't looked at fdisk's code in a while, but from my usage, I have > never seen it alter the MBR/partition table without issuing a command > that involves such a change (ie option 4 never made any changes). And a > brief reexamination of the code seems to confirm this (it has checks for > changes so only writes if a change has occurred). > > Brian could tell you for sure (or anyone who wants to read the sources), > but I feel pretty confident in saying that using (Free)Fdisk to examine > the partition tables should not cause any harm -- but not a method I'd > recommend (users can do some funny things), so a tool designed just to > display the partition tables would be better. > > Jeremy > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
