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> 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?
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From what you've said, it's hard to tell you anything of value.  Was the
non-DOS partition set up as the active boot partition?  If so, this may
be part of the problem.  If you haven't looked at the setup with FDISK,
or if you haven't tried to boot from the hard disk, then neither you nor
we know about your active partition.  After Solaris was installed, was
the C: drive still a bootable partition?  Was this a dual boot system
where either Solaris or DOS could be booted?  You may have a problem,
you may not.  As for the data on your 'C' drive, I still don't know.
What happens when you try to access your "D" drive?  Use FDISK to look
at the configuration of your drive, just don't change anything.  Tell us
how things are laid out and maybe we can tell you something useful.  HTH

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