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Old 09-29-2002, 06:50 AM   #16
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yep it sure does!

i'm very confused about this...

all i want is to make my backups, is that too much for one kid to ask for!
 
Old 09-29-2002, 06:59 AM   #17
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Well, I'd say create those disks from a friends computer and go from there. It looks very strange because of the filesystem section from fdisk -l is saying part magic...

Once you have those disks, it'll probably all work out.

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Old 09-29-2002, 07:09 AM   #18
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does anyone know if i can get a hold of those disks somewhere on the net. i.e site that has this kind of stuff for download....cause i need to do this now, my parents don't know this has happened yet
 
Old 09-29-2002, 07:17 AM   #19
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Some people are idiots. I guess this would be fine if you were able to boot into winbloze... but this programs claims to recover crap for you, but is a winbloze setup.exe file! http://download.com.com/redir?pid=67...cnet%2Fgdb.zip

I'm trying to find a site with those disk images on em...
 
Old 09-29-2002, 07:26 AM   #20
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yeh so am i, do you think i would be able to run that in wine? Or would i risk stuffin my WHOLE drive this time....
 
Old 09-29-2002, 07:34 AM   #21
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Oh yeh, just incase you need a look at my lilo.conf here it is
Code:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=791
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label=linux
	root=/dev/hda2
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append="quiet devfs=mount"
	vga=788
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label=linux-nonfb
	root=/dev/hda2
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append="devfs=mount"
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label=failsafe
	root=/dev/hda2
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append="failsafe devfs=nomount"
	read-only
other=/dev/fd0
	label=floppy
	unsafe
other=/dev/hda1
	label=windows
	table=/dev/hda
 
Old 09-29-2002, 07:34 AM   #22
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Run what? PM? I don't know, not sure if it'd dork things or not. Stupid PM...
 
Old 09-29-2002, 07:37 AM   #23
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Thanks, but really since PM seems to be desguising your fat32 partition as it's own proprietary filesystem, I think you are going to have to use it's own tools to recover it. If this were fat32 or ntfs we'd be done by now

Stupid PM...
 
Old 09-29-2002, 07:39 AM   #24
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Alright buddy, I gotta go get some work done really quick before my relief shows up. Good Luck! I think once you get those partition magic recovery floppy disks everything will fall into place easily.

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Old 09-29-2002, 07:40 AM   #25
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yes yes i know hehe, well MasterC thanks for your time, well i did change it's i.d from its own one to fat32..heres the output of fdisk -l

Code:
[root@localhost etc]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

                                Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1   *       372      2434  16571016    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2             1       331   2658726   83  Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4           332       371    321300    5  Extended
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5           332       363    257008+  82  Linux swap
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6           364       371     64228+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
 
Old 09-29-2002, 07:40 AM   #26
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no more partion magic...but it didn't make a difference...i don't think....
 
Old 09-29-2002, 07:42 AM   #27
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yep thanks!!!

i might just re-format my linux partition, format it to fat32, install windows m.e or 98, see if i can access my files then. if no...re-format the WHOLE thing....oh well sh!t happens....

thanks again for your time...but if anyone does have suggestions it would be appreciated, also before my parents kill me
 
Old 09-29-2002, 07:56 AM   #28
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Well if you do put winme or 98 on there, then you could put pm back on, and make those disks.

Work here is a joke sometime ya know. I just did 12 hours worth of work, and in 10 minutes

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Old 09-29-2002, 08:08 AM   #29
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If you have access to a windows box you can put the PM cd in and create the floppies without installing the PM program on windows.I never install the PM program to the hdd-I just run the create floppies thing from the cd.HTH
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Old 09-29-2002, 08:13 AM   #30
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lynch you think you could upload the files on the pm c.d to make the floppies, saves time and hassle for me??? Only if you can of course, like maybe send them to me through e-mail or something....

just a suggestion....
 
  


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