Hi, Roy.
-=> on 02-26-05 04:06, ROY J. TELLASON wrote to JIM HOLSONBACK <=-

 RJT> Howdy Jim,  long time!

Yep.  Too long.

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

 JH> Question - -  how can his HDD be saved?

 RJT> My inclination would be to boot a dos floppy and try "fdisk
/mbr",  or
 RJT> maybe tomsrtbt,  and use their fdisk...

Yep.  But I think he will first need to get beyond another obstacle he
reports - - the HDD will need to be autodetected by a BIOS, either
onboard or on the controller card.

 RJT> Wondering if perhaps there's something peculiar to the version of
 RJT> windoze, it being OEM and all.

There has been lots of speculation about that in other msgs.

- - -  JimH.


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