This is a very wierd problem that we have encountered..another punishment for the sin of using windows
I have windows2000 installed on my machine, which has 2 harddisks HDD1 : 20 GB (Primary Master) 2 GB windows (c drive) 5 GB Linux 500 MB Linux swap 11 GB Extended Partition Windows (E drive) HDD2: 4.3 GB (Secondary Slave) 3 GB: windows Primary ( D drive) 1 GB : windows extended ( F drive) The swap files for windows 2000 are stored on both C drive and D drive. Now I needed to copy some data from my E drive to another hardisk. I connected the other harddisk as the secondary slave. Both the drives got detected in the Bios, and when we booted windows we found that the data (including partition info) from the earlier (D drive) had been copied on the newly connected harddisk. i figure Windows 2000, has some feature, where if it finds some files to be tampered, promptly writes them back. So this is what has been done to the other drive. The partitions of the other Hadrdisk are as follows 1. hda1 - 10GB (vfat : originally made from Windows fdisk) <---- This is the partition that has been overwritten 2. hda5 = 10 GB (vfat : originally made from Windows fdisk) The size of the hda1 is now changed to reflect the original D drive. I feel that only the partition info and FAT table of the newly connected harddisk has been overwritten. The sectors should be untouched. How do i set the other drive back to its previous state? Yash _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
