Crossposted to the WIN95 and TECH echoes.

Hello, ALL.  I'm trying to help Wayne C. with some 'puter problems he is
currently having, and some of them are beyond my ken.

I'm posting here in order that we may both have the benefit of the tech
advice of others, and for critique in case I give him any bad advice.
This will be a series of posts, in order to try and address the probs
one issue at a time.

This was partially discussed in the Win95 echo back in Dec.
For background, he has an older Celeron 433 system, and his mobo
BIOS will not support HDD larger than 8GB or so.  He has obtained a
65 GB HDD, and intended to install a dual-boot configuration of Linux
and Win98FE. His recent project was to install a Promise Ultra66 biosed
controller card in order to access capacity of the HDD, and to run it
faster than the UDMA33 supported by his onboard controller. He relates
that he had partitioned the HDD correctly using the FDISK utility
from Linux, setting aside an 8GB partition for exclusive use by Winders.

Disaster struck when he went to install Win98FE from an OEM disc. It
appears that the Linux FDISKed the HDD to full 65GB, and in the Win98
installation process, somehow, Windows FDISK was run.  Win98FE has a
problem with HDD>64MB, and it appears that the damn thing wrapped-around
the HDD addressing, overwriting his MBR.  He now says that the HDD is
dead beyond any recovery, can't be FDISKed or even recognized in his
system.

Question - -  how can his HDD be saved?

Thanks in advance.  I have a procedure in mind, but I think at this
point Wayne will be more comfy with advice from someone other than
myself.

- - -  JimH.

... "Inquiring minds want to know." - - Bubba
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