Legg83
07-30-2001, 10:46 AM
Ok, so I'm stupid. I thought it would be cool to install windows 2000 over the weekend. I was wrong.
Here is my setup. I have an 8 gig FAT32 (C :) partition, 3 gig Linux ReiserFS partition, a 64 meg swap partition. and the rest of my hard drive is a fat32 storage partition... which is about 8 megs.
Anyway, I decide to install Win2k. The version I have is not bootable, and has no boot disk utility. I have to install it from within windows98... fine, thats cool. It tells me it cannot upgrade, that it has to start out with a clean install. Ok, I assume your going to be formating my c: partition, go ahead, thats what I want to do.
During the install, it tells me something like.. 48 megs selected out of an available 800 megs of hard drive space. What? I have an 8 gig c: partition, i thought that was what you were storing to. So I exit out of the install. By this time, I don't think they have overwritten my mbr, so I can get into linux fine. I go to my d: partition, and i find a winnt directory, as well as some windows files in the root directory, and a program files directory. I delete these windows files. format c:, prepare for a fresh win98 install, enough of this win2k crap.
I get everything up and running in windows98, and then I realize that it can't find my d: partition.... reboot into linux, linux can't find it either.. fdisk says my partition tables are all messed up. Oh s***! Bye Bye 6gigs of precious mp3s.
But wait, I have Norton Utilities. Uh great, how do I use it?
Thats my question to you guys, after my depressing story... how can I resurrect my dead fat32 partition? I have a spare 9 gig hard drive sitting here, I would be happy with storing all my mp3s on that harddrive, and preforming a low level format on my screwed up hard drive.
Is there any hope? Are there any free faq's ore documents I could look at online?
I am open to ANY ideas. Please Help!!!
Thanks guys.
Here is my setup. I have an 8 gig FAT32 (C :) partition, 3 gig Linux ReiserFS partition, a 64 meg swap partition. and the rest of my hard drive is a fat32 storage partition... which is about 8 megs.
Anyway, I decide to install Win2k. The version I have is not bootable, and has no boot disk utility. I have to install it from within windows98... fine, thats cool. It tells me it cannot upgrade, that it has to start out with a clean install. Ok, I assume your going to be formating my c: partition, go ahead, thats what I want to do.
During the install, it tells me something like.. 48 megs selected out of an available 800 megs of hard drive space. What? I have an 8 gig c: partition, i thought that was what you were storing to. So I exit out of the install. By this time, I don't think they have overwritten my mbr, so I can get into linux fine. I go to my d: partition, and i find a winnt directory, as well as some windows files in the root directory, and a program files directory. I delete these windows files. format c:, prepare for a fresh win98 install, enough of this win2k crap.
I get everything up and running in windows98, and then I realize that it can't find my d: partition.... reboot into linux, linux can't find it either.. fdisk says my partition tables are all messed up. Oh s***! Bye Bye 6gigs of precious mp3s.
But wait, I have Norton Utilities. Uh great, how do I use it?
Thats my question to you guys, after my depressing story... how can I resurrect my dead fat32 partition? I have a spare 9 gig hard drive sitting here, I would be happy with storing all my mp3s on that harddrive, and preforming a low level format on my screwed up hard drive.
Is there any hope? Are there any free faq's ore documents I could look at online?
I am open to ANY ideas. Please Help!!!
Thanks guys.