Hi Wayne.

23-Sep-03 22:01:00, Wayne Chirnside wrote to Roy J. Tellason


  -=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT>> Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 WC>> If I can locate a drive, just checked the BIOS and it craps out
 WC>> at 33 Gig :-(

 RJT>> Just a thought -- do you have Toms RtBoot or similar on hand?  I
 RJT>> forget if fdisk would be in there or not,  but I'd think so (and
 RJT>> am not gonna

 WC> I can make a boot and root disk from a very early Slackware CD
 WC> I've here so no problem getting fdisk.

 RJT>> reboot the machine with that in to find out :-),  but if so,
 RJT>> you could try that out and see if it sees the whole drive.  Try
 RJT>> bigger numbers and you should be able to determine what it can
 RJT>> do without actually writing anything to the HD...

 WC> Yep.

 WC>> I've a couple years on and off playing and only trashed the
 WC>> system once when overtired I did a cp filename.html /dev/hda1
 WC>> where it promptly did precisely what I told it to do, overwrite
 WC>> the MBR and FAT with that file :-(

 WC>> Just didn't think to cp to /mnt that one time.

 RJT>> Heh.

 WC> I knew the drive would not reboot the second I realized what I'd
 WC> done. Fixed with Linux boot disk but lost all contents of the DOS
 WC> C drive. Knowing where the partition breaks were from a printout I
 WC> didn't lose Linux.

how big was the file?  there;'s a chance that the second FAT copy
survived... (too late now...)

 WC> Amazing the hole you can dig for yourself and climb back out of
 WC> with Linux.

yeah, I once used linux as a platform to fiddle with a scragged dos FAT...
using simple C programs...

I got the drive back.

 -=> Bye <=-

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