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by rohilaman 1 view

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I have a 10G HD partitioned into 2 drives(9.7G and 200M). I installed WinME on the 9.7 and kept my files on the 200. I was trying to install DOS onto my Zip Drive. When it said the disk wasn't setup and DOS had to reconfigure it, I assumed it meant the Zip, but to my horror, it was the HD.

I have lost all my work that was on the 200M partition (This is the only one I really care about).

DOS Repartitioned my HD into one 2G, and the rest is still free. Is there anyone who can help me get back what I've lost? PLEASE HELP!!!!

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by zlitocook

as long as you have not used the computer you can get undelete a shareware program or try partition magic to recover the partitions if you have not used the computer. if you use the computer you risk over writing the info thats still there. always backup!

by scviking

Another big point:

The DOS installer does not recognize FAT32 partitions, so it probably formatted the 200MB partition as FAT 16. The DOS installer does that a lot, in fact.

Looks like you may have lost your work. Sorry.

To properly install DOS to your ZIP drive, all you need to do is copy the relevant files to it. You don't need to run setup at all.

Just copy the contents of the TOOLS/OLDMSDOS directory on your Windows CD to the ZIP drive, and that should do it.

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