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Roland Plugge

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Jan 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/15/98

The situation:

Primary
Master C:
4,1 Gb

FAT32
Slave D:
1281 Mb

FAT32
Secondary
Master E:
261 Mb

FAT16
Slave F:
541 Mb

FAT16

OS:
Memphis (Win98) installed on C:

Probably by restoring and old bootsector (backed-up with Norton Rescue
for Win 95), I've accidentally overwritten the
bootsector. I found out this was an older version of the bootsector and
now I am unable to access my harddisks C: D: E:

The restored bootsector was from to following situation:

Primary
Master C:
1281 Mb

FAT16
Slave
none

none
Secondary
Master D:
261 Mb

FAT16
Slave E:
541 Mb

FAT16

So, now the system thinks C: and D: are formatted with FAT16. A DIR
command results in garbage. Normally you're unable
to 'see' FAT32-HD's with DOS and only with Memphis 98 or Win95-2, but
now because the system thinks they are FAT16
he does see them.

When I use CHKDSK to display HD information he sees the C: D: and E: as
resp. 1281, 261, 541 Mb, just like the old
situation.

Now I have to change the HD settings back to what they should be.

Do you know the solution to my problem, are there programmes to change
these settings, and can I use Partition Magic whitout
loosing my data?

A friend of my, has exactly the same C: drive, 4,1 Gb FAT32 and win95-2
installed on it. Would it help if I copy the
bootsector from his HD to my HD? How can I establish that?

The most important data I have are on C: and D: (exact copy). I hope you
can help me with restoring at least one of those.

Could you please tell me, who I can help me otherwise.

Thanks,

Roland Plugge
1400...@student.eur.nl

Student at:
Erasmus University Rotterdam

My company:
Four Elements

Niels Basjes

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Jan 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/15/98

to Roland Plugge

Roland Plugge wrote:

> The situation:

<SNIP: Partitie tabel aan gort maar alle data staat er nog wel.>

Ik heb een vergelijkbare situatie een paar jaar geleden mee
gemaakt, alleen was het toen een virus de schuldige. Ik heb
toen met de Norton Diskeditor, een rekenmachine, en veel geduld
alle partities met de hand terug gehengeld. Ik heb die
partitietabel kunnen reconstrueren door gewoon *brute force*
naar een *bekend uitziende* bootsector te zoeken en dan uit
rekenen welke waarde waar in die tabel moeten staan.

Ga er in iedergeval vanuit dat er geen software is die dit voor
je kan doen.

Niels.
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