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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.
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
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...
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
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.
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
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
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
lynch
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....
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