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Primary partition - disappeared!
Help! My sister's computer (K6-450) has stopped working. The 2.4 Gb hard
drive is detected on boot by the BIOS, but will not boot. I've used a Win 98 floppy boot disk, and I can access C:. I used Partition Magic 6, and the C: I can see is the extended partition (originally D. Where and why has the primary partition disappeared? If I try to recreate a C: primary partition will I lose all the data? I don't know how big the partition were. Is there some other way of doing it? Or should I reformat the drive (nothing critical on it - and was buggy) and reinstall everything? -- Susan |
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:52:08 +0100, "S.Boardman"
wrote: Help! My sister's computer (K6-450) has stopped working. The 2.4 Gb hard drive is detected on boot by the BIOS, but will not boot. I've used a Win 98 floppy boot disk, and I can access C:. I used Partition Magic 6, and the C: I can see is the extended partition (originally D. Where and why has the primary partition disappeared? If I try to recreate a C: primary partition will I lose all the data? I don't know how big the partition were. Is there some other way of doing it? Or should I reformat the drive (nothing critical on it - and was buggy) and reinstall everything? The drive is likely at or near end-of-life, it would be good to buy a new hard drive, whatever capacity the motherboard BIOS will support, perhaps up to 32GB with original BIOS and 128GB if a supportive BIOS update is available. If you wish to retain the data make a backup before any changes to the drive. Recreating a primary partition will not allow normal access to the files, they're still there but with no FAT they can't be acessed normally. Rather a data-recovery type program might succeed. I'm unsure if there's a good freeware software to do recovery but Ontrack EasyRecovery should be able to do this by copying it off to another drive. Since you feel the installation was buggy you might want to reinstall the OS again regardless of what can be salvaged. Dave |
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Sounds like the harddrive died. You can try repartitioning it and
reformatting it (yes, you'll lose the data on it), but it sounds like you may be needing a new harddrive soon -- DaveW "S.Boardman" wrote in message ... Help! My sister's computer (K6-450) has stopped working. The 2.4 Gb hard drive is detected on boot by the BIOS, but will not boot. I've used a Win 98 floppy boot disk, and I can access C:. I used Partition Magic 6, and the C: I can see is the extended partition (originally D. Where and why has the primary partition disappeared? If I try to recreate a C: primary partition will I lose all the data? I don't know how big the partition were. Is there some other way of doing it? Or should I reformat the drive (nothing critical on it - and was buggy) and reinstall everything? -- Susan |
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