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August 5, 2000 at 06:23 AM
banzai

Hard Drive Partitioning

by banzai . Updated 25 years, 9 months ago

I had a 425MB hard drive that I had partitioned using Unix420 partition facility. I made a 125MB partition for Unix operating system and two more partitions for DOS with a primary partition of 220MB and a secondary(logical) partition of 80MB. When Irebooted I booted from a floppy and made DOS primary partition as the active one to boot from instead of the UNIX partition. When I booted to DOS from the hard drive, I ran fdisk and by choosing the 3rd option for deleting a harddrive partition, I deleted the UNIX partition which was listed as a Non-DOS partition. But when I restarted the computer I found the both the DOS partitions were there when I viewed them in fdisk but I was unable to access the 125MB of the UNIX partition. I also tried to boot from floppy and run the UNIX setup again but I was unable to revive the lost partition. I also used utilities like Disk Manager but without any success. The way is the I should use Disk Manager and do a low level format on the hard drive but Ihave got data on the

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