FDISK Error ... please help

[Steve Christall]

I have a friend who has recently done some bizzare manuvering in
FDISK. He is running Win95B (4.00.1111) and hence the latest version
of FDISK

The story so far.

He had two partitions using FAT16. One of approx 1.9GB and other
approx 100MB. The first and larger partition was the primary and
active .... every thing was working fine.

The Act

Being a bit of an experimentor he decided to play around in FDISK. He
was not worried about data loss, and was planning on reconfiguring his
h/d. He ran FDISK and deleted (from what I understand) the primary
partition. He then exited from FDISK leaving the smaller and extended
logical partition present.

The problem

He can now NO longer run FDISK. It exits with an error (something
like) ..... Error reading the fixed disk. However if he boots off
floppy he has a C: drive of approx 100MB.

Do you know where his 1.9GB has gone and how he can manage to get
FDISK to run again on his system, allowing him to retreive the lost
disk space!!?

Thanks Steve

[Apex]

HAHA! What a fool. Fdisk is not a toy. He has deleted the
partition, PERMANENTLY!! There is no way to get his data back. Don't
screw around w/ FDISK. He will be able to create a partition if he
has a system disk w/ FDISK on it, from the OSR2 version of Windows.
If it is a FAT16 system, he can use FDISK from any version of DOS or
WIndows, but the 95 and 95a versions are not recommended, there is a
bug in it that can cause partitions to disappear. If you are not
going to be using FDISK from OSR2, use it from DOS 6.22.