help with unusable FAT16 partition

Anne Dire

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Aug 25, 2002, 3:29:52 PM8/25/02

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1. I have a Quantum 800MB as my boot-up drive, partitioned in 500MB
FAT16 (primary, active) and 300MB Linux swap. This drive is primary
master, and the slave is a 40GB Maxtor which acts as my OS drive.

I used to have several Windows OSs as well as RedHat 7.3 working fine,
and using NT loader instead of GRUB. Recently, however, I started
having problems with the FAT16 partition.

The computer would no longer boot up and would just hang. Upon
booting up with a diskette, Win9x fdisk would list the FAT16 partition
as primary, active, but UNKNOWN. Linux fdisk, however, sees it as
FAT16. Is there any way to recover it (other than, of course,
reformat)?

2. On a different note, my redhat installation cannot access my
Yamaha sound card for some reason...

I get the following message at boot up, after KDE loads:

Window title - Informational - artsmessage
Sound server informational message
Error while initializing the sound driver
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such device)
The Sound server will end, using the null output device.

TIA

Anne

Dave Stanton

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Aug 26, 2002, 11:56:38 PM8/26/02

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> 2. On a different note, my redhat installation cannot access my Yamaha
> sound card for some reason...
>
> I get the following message at boot up, after KDE loads:
>
> Window title - Informational - artsmessage Sound server informational
> message
> Error while initializing the sound driver device /dev/dsp can't be
> opened (no such device) The Sound server will end, using the null output
> device.
>
> TIA
>
> Anne

Have alook at your services, my Mandrake installation was trying to run
2x sound servers. I turned one off and KDE began to use the sound.

Cheers

Dave

mjt

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Aug 27, 2002, 1:15:56 AM8/27/02

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Anne Dire wrote:

> The computer would no longer boot up and would just hang. Upon
> booting up with a diskette, Win9x fdisk would list the FAT16 partition
> as primary, active, but UNKNOWN. Linux fdisk, however, sees it as
> FAT16. Is there any way to recover it (other than, of course,
> reformat)?

i just want to be sure that UNKNOWN is not the label? what about
running, what's that utility, 'scandisk' or something like that
(the micros~1 one)

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Anne Dire

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Sep 4, 2002, 4:56:45 PM9/4/02

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mjt <mjtobler@removethis_consultant.com> wrote in message news:<gWDa9.2421$Et3.51...@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>...

thanx for your reply.
i just formatted and reconstructed the boot disk. UNKNOWN referred to
the system (i.e., DOS could not identify the correct system installed
on that partition). scandisk wouldn't run on that partition.

Anne Dire

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Sep 4, 2002, 5:00:54 PM9/4/02

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Thanx Dave, I'll play with that.

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