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Thread ID: 17601	2002-04-08 02:50:00	Screwed my partitions setting up Linux	Guest (0)	Press F1

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42522	2002-04-08 02:50:00	Hi. tried to get fancy and install Linux on my 30gb HDD.3 partitions that had all been NTFS for win 2000. C.D.E. Wanted to put Trustix Linux in E but had a lot of trouble getting the E partition to change over to Linux format. Nearly succeeded and then goofed and deleted D partition as well. While the data there wasn't super critical I would like to recover it. Any suggestions. And then setting up Linux for multi boot with windows.	Guest (0)
42523	2002-04-08 04:44:00	MS FDISK will kill your stuff. The Linux fdisk programme will do it without formatting. If you can make a linux bootable floppy (or even boot the CD --- I haven't done this, but it would probably work), you should be able to escape from the install script, and run the Linux fdisk programme. If you know the sizes of the MS partitions, you should be able to recreate them. Use the 'p' command, and write down what is there when you start it. It might be as easy as using the 't' command to change the type of the partitions there. Use 'l' to see what types are available. What did you do to get in a tangle? All you had to do was delete the E partition with MS FDISK. Linux loves to find an unallocated section of drive. It will ask for your Ok then make the partitions it wants. Multibooting: it should happen automatically. If it doesn't like W2k, tell it to install LILO on a floppy. That is the safest way to have a multiboot. You just boot from a floppy when you want Linux.	Guest (0)
42524	2002-04-11 14:04:00	Win2k uses Disk Management and not fdisk. Unfortunately you can't boot to DOS and use fdisk if you've got NTFS partitions. You find disk management in the administrative tools, computer management then look for disk management. That'll show all your partitions and you rightclick on the one you don't want and delete it.	Guest (0)
42525	2002-04-11 14:06:00	My mistake you can boot and use fdisk but I suggest Win2k to do it. You can't read the drive on NTFS if you boot to DOS but you can still use fdisk but I can't remember if it reported NTFS or an unknown filesystem	Guest (0)
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