[Thinkpad] Re: Dealing with Gates

Hello,

Have you tried running "FDISK /STATUS" after booting from a Windows 98/ME
startup diskette to see which partition it reports as active? You can
also use FDISK to change which partition is currently marked active.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

At 02:25 PM 3/5/2004, you wrote:
>Message: 7
>Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:42:05 -0700
>From: ron <fidel@webcoast2coast.net>
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Dealing with Gates
>Cc: "thinkpad@stderr.org" <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Message-ID: <4048E61D.403@webcoast2coast.net>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
>Any partition magic gurus out there? How can I un screw up my drive
>after PM killed it? There is a little "*" next to my drive letter. Even
>though the status says it is active and unhidden, the * shows that it IS
>hidden and XP can't see it. No mater what I do the * will nor go away. I
>tried Hiding it and then un hiding it to no avail.
>
>I made a new partition on the drive. It was seen by XP. I started
>copying files from the hidden partition with PM browser to the new
>partition. XP saw it OK. Now the new partition has the little * by it
>and XP can't see it. What is up with PM and how do I fix it? I now have
>60 gigs of back up data that is there but I can't get at it.
>Ron

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Received on Fri Mar 5 18:57:19 2004