Hi Sami

You have just learnt the why it is so important to back-up your data. By running
FDisk you rearranged your HD Partitions and by doing this u (not to be
technical) messed up all the data sitting on your HD at the time. That is why
after u use FDisk on your HD u need to Format each partition and reinstall all
your programs and then use your back-ups and put all your data back onto the HD.

To solve your problem then you need to Format your HD and reinstall everything.
To get your Data back you will probably need to take your HD into a specialist
shop and at great expense get them to take your HD apart and manually retrieve
your data.

Cheers
Kevin Hains
Cape Town
South Africa
Http://user.lia.net/hains/js2main.htm
Http://www.ct.lia.net
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>hello everyone
>
>my HD used to be partitioned into 3 segments ,C,D and a non-dos partition(
>my brother installed solaris in this one).
>
>this morning i desided to get rid of the NON-DOS partition(that contained
>solaris) so i ran FDISK and chose "delete partition" and chose the 3rd
>partition. then i rebooted the system. and to my surprise, i got a "reboot
>system message". so i used a bootdisk to run the system in dos.
>
>now when i type "C:\" i get the files that were in the D drive. its as if
>the origonal C: drive doesn't exist anymore. i would go back to fdisk and
>play around with the thing but i dont want to take any risks as the
>C: contains really really really important files. i cant afford to
>reinstall everything.
>
>
>the question: is there a way to recover the files that were in the c:
>drive. is there a utility that does that?
>
>any help would be appriciated.
>
>
>sami

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