Martin,

You can get funny results nowadays unless you use the same
version of FDISK on all your hard drives.

Such as using Win 98 (or Win 95B) to set up a hard disk using
FAT 32. Win 95 (or other FDISK programs using FAT 16) will
not "read" a hard disk properly when it was set up using FAT 32.

Could that be the case with your various hard disks?
Which version of FDISK did you use to set up the new
hard disk? And which operating system are you using
on your computer?

Except with very expensive equipment, you can't recover a lost
partition - unless you have made a copy of your partition in
advance with a utility program such as Nuts and Bolts.


At 06:32 PM 12/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I have install a Hard Drive on my computer in orther to transfer his data to
>my computer. The bios did acknoledge it but dos and windows didn't. what I
>did is use fdisk to sea what happened. Fdisk show the drive with 0% of use.
>what I conclude is that the partiontion is broken.
>
>I have 2 questions:
>
>Could someone explain to me what has happenned here?
>Does it has a way to reconver a lost partion?
>
>I have a pentium 100Mhz, Fx chipset
>16 Meg Ram
>Matrox millenium
>IDE used
>   1.6 Gig Primary Master
>   100 Meg Primary Slave (The new installed in replacement of the 4X CD-Rom)
>   5.1 Gig Secondary Master
>   Yamaha CD-RW Secondary Slave.
>
>Martin Trevorn
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