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| Thread ID: 27962 | 2002-12-07 10:40:00 | undelete partition | merlin-nz (275) | Press F1 |
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| 104027 | 2002-12-07 10:40:00 | OK people, I had a wee problem with a new partition I created in winblows, inthat I could not boot into Linux. But before I got an answer from F1, I deleted and moved the data and files from the new partition back to the C Drive, then deleted the partition. Now the partition looks like it still there but unallocated. ?:| I still could not boot into Linux so reinstalled as suggested, (thanks for the replies.) When I select the unallocated partition and go to Opertions on the tool bar in PM7.0, I see I can "undelete" (which means what excactly please) and also "create" (which means to "Create a new partition using the selected unallocated space"). Which I assume means I can just recreate the partition as before I deleted it? I wish to redo the partition and see if I can reboot into Linux and if not reinstall Linux again this time without deleting the partition first. Trail and error so to speak, hope the hell I'm on the right path here, will not do anything until I get at least one reply this time. winblows me 600MHz processor 192 ram I hope all that makes a bit of sense and can be understood, thanks. cheers merlin-nz ;-) |
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| 104028 | 2002-12-08 01:43:00 | "Undelete" means: restore it to the way it was before you deleted it. ;-) If PM shows it as an option, I assume that it has tested it and thinks it has a reasonable change of success. It won't do any harm, anyway. { famous last words :D }. Try a simple example. Take a floppy. Use DOS to format it, without options. Do a dir. Then "unformat". Do a dir. That works on the fast format, which saves the necessary information to allow this. "/U" format does not. OR in DOS 6.22 delete some files on a floppy. Then "undelete" them. If you haven't written anything, the files can be recovered. (That's easy because of the way deletion is done in DOS directories). I assume you used PM which must have saved the partition information ... (that's pretty small, so it's probably found a bit of space on the drive to do thast) |
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