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- From: donaldc@tangier.cs.dal.ca (Donald Chisholm)
- Subject: Fdisk and partitions question
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- Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:11:26 GMT
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- If there is someone out there who knows EXACTLY what fdisk does I'd like some
- help on the following problem:
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- Recently my system lost the primary partition information somehow, my primary
- partition shows up as a Non-Dos one. My question is will fdisk destroy the information
- on that partition if I delete it and set it back up as primary dos of exactly the same
- size? I'm hoping if I do this and not format the partition the system may be able to
- boot again provided other information was not destroyed.
- To sum up I'd like to restate the partition information, but not format, and recover
- that partition's data.
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- Reply by E-mail please,
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- Don
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