Re: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

[Paul Miller <paul@3dillusion.com>]

On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
> 
> > boot Linux -- a kernel panic occours and it claims that it can't read the
> > superblock.
> > 
> > I've tried booting off the "Debian Boot Disk" and the "Debian Rescue Disk"
> > and I still get the same results.  I can not mount _any_ partitions that
> > are on the same disk as NT.
> 
> Sounds like you trashed your partition table when you installed NT.

Any way to repair it?  Is fdisk /mbr (in dos) safe?

> > Any ideas?  Are there any programs for NT that will allow me to view the
> > Linux partitions?
> 
> In NT, there exists a program called Disk Administrator that lets you
> view and modify the partition tables and create FAT or NTFS filesystems
> on partitions.  It's basically a GUI version of fdisk.

Yeah... I played with that program a little -- only to change the drive
letter of my cdrom drive.

I just started to install Partition Magic 3.05... will that program help?

Thanks
-Paul


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