Hopefully you guys can help me out...........
My computer setup:
Pentium II 350 Mhz with 32 + 64 MB memory
HD 1: Maxtor 40 Gb
partition 1: primary NTFS Windows 2000 (my system) = 6Gb
partition 2: primary Fat32 Windows 98 SE (my wife)= 4Gb
partition 3: primary Fat 32 Windows 98SE (my Son)= 4Gb
partition 4: logical, containing:
500mb fat32:swap file
100mb XOSL
1Gb fat32:photo files
1Gb fat32:data files
8 Gb fat32:downloaded stuff
rest empty
HD 2: Quantum 3.2 Gb
empty space
logical partition
First problem:
While booting to "my wife", system hang (& I heard loud strange Movement of HD) & upon restart HD 2 is gone - also from "my system" & "myson" (even bios only saw one hd). I first thought the aging HD 2 broke ...(but I later on found out that HD 2 is still working perfectly. I disconnected HD 1 & made HD 2 as primary, BIOS immediatelly recognized on boot & I can also install win 2k on empty space. But also this system could not recoqnize my logical partition on HD 1 - that I put as slave now)
Second problem:
Several days later all 3 systems crashed (completely failed to boot). I can only get to "my son" in dos.
What is worst, suddenly logical partition got converted to unknown partition (partition magic reported as one EB type partition)
My big concern: HOw to get all my data (photo, data files, & downloaded stuff back)?
Please help anyone !!
Another question if I delete that EB partition using partition magic floppy, will it destroy all data on it or it just delete the partition so that I can make the logical partition & try to recreate those partitions?
Prior to this problem I had different setup with Similar problem:
HD1:
primary 1 : Win 98 my system
primary 2: Win 98 my wife
primary 3: empty
Logical:
1: XOSL
2: Linux swap
3: Linux
4: Photo file
5: Data file
6: downloaded stuff
HD 2:
at first : empty space + one logical
then it became:
1: primary Win 98 game (my son)
2: logical old stuff
Using XOSL I hide both partition of HD 2 from "my system" and "my wife"
I also hide all partitions of HD 1 when on "my son"
No problem with this setup.
Probably due to virus infection, "my son" crashed. I deleted it s0 HD 2 is back to original setup, i.e.:
1: empty
2: logical = old stuff
Here comes odd problem:
If I unhide logical old stuff both "my system" & "my wife" did not boot (just hang). However Linux has no problem whatsoever reading old stuff.
I then ghosted "my system" to empty primary 3 for my son. Strange enough, the new my son had no problem with logical old stuff but instead It cannot read any partition on HD 1 logical partition (Photo, data, & downloaded stuff).
I had partition magic installed on "my system" & it read all partitions with no problem but the same partition magic ghosted to "my son" read logical partition on HD 1 as EB partition.
2 months ago I decided to reformat & created the above system & had no problem untill couple of days ago.............
Please anyone help me rescuing those valuable data back.
Thanks.
