Partition problem

[Saga]

I have Win 2K installed on a multiboot PC along with Win98 and Linux. Since
I
had some space left over (20GB), I decided to use the disk manager that
comes
woth WIn2K. I created the partition and all seemed to go well, until I tried
to
boot into Linux. The kernel gave me some problems, which boiled down to what
I believe was a problem with the partition, so I backtracked by deleteing
the
partition that I last created. After I deleted the partition, I could not
boot into
anything, including Win2K. The PC is due for a re-installment of everything,
but before I wipe the HD clean, is there any way of getting back at least
the
Win 2K partition? I have some data in there that I wish to recover (if
possible).

I saw another port with MBR problems and the FDISK program was recommended.
Could this help in my case?

Thanks for your assistance.
Saga

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have Win 2K installed on a multiboot PC along with Win98 and Linux. Since
I
had some space left over (20GB), I decided to use the disk manager that
comes
woth WIn2K. I created the partition and all seemed to go well, until I tried
to
boot into Linux. The kernel gave me some problems, which boiled down to what
I believe was a problem with the partition, so I backtracked by deleteing
the
partition that I last created. After I deleted the partition, I could not
boot into
anything, including Win2K. The PC is due for a re-installment of everything,
but before I wipe the HD clean, is there any way of getting back at least
the
Win 2K partition? I have some data in there that I wish to recover (if
possible).

I saw another port with MBR problems and the FDISK program was recommended.
Could this help in my case?

Thanks for your assistance.
Saga

You don't really give enough information to allow a diagnosis
of your problem. At the very least you should do this:
- Get a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com.
- Boot with this boot disk.
- Run fdisk.exe and find out these details:
* First partition: Type (primary/logical), File System (FAT/FAT32/NTFS),
visible/hidden, active/not active, current use (Win2000/Win98/Linux)
* Same for all other partitions

You could obtain the same info with a PQMagic emergency
recovery disk.

 

[Saga]

Thanks for your reply. I can get this info. I will post it here
later on, as I am not near the affected PC.

Saga

 

[Tony V]

Also if you have another box available you can pull the drive out of the
affected machine and plug it into another one as a slave drive then just
drag and drop the files you want to recover onto the new drive ..... yes it
is a little crude but effective and 9 times out of 10 it is actually faster
then wrcking yorur brain trying to get recovery programs to work