I have some very important files on my d: drive(10 gigs hard drive) and i wanted to partion it. SO i DELEted the "primary dos" partion and made a new one but now i can't access the files on the d: drive!! i can only format it, but i really need the files on it!! what do i do!!! HELP!!!!

*cough* Powerquest Partition Magic *cough*

When you fdisk'd and deleted the partition -
all information goes with it... The MBR and
FAT are toasted.
The information is *there* but you would
need some pretty sophisticted equipment to
retreive it.

I'm having a problem with fdisk too... so i might as well post here.
I installed windows XP on my cpu after setting up a new partition(ext dos) with fdisk. i needed to delete it to resize it. it was converted from fat32 to ntfs from the XP install. when i go to delete it, it says cannot delete cuz logical drive still exist. when i go to delete the logical drive, it says there are none. and round and round it goes. I got fed up and sent the cock sucker into HP to get fixed only after arguing about warrenty for over an hour. I'm sure HP will take care of the problem but it still burns me. How the hell do i get that fixed.

was i vulgar in that last post...i was... sorry bout that. I'm just a lil salty about the whole deal.

This is addressed to Joe's post.

I was just working with that same problem. Sometimes you have to use an industrial strength partitioning tool. I don't know where to download it but just do a search for: Ranish partition & boot manager. It will take care of those nasty ext. dos partitions. Or at least it did for me.

Re Original post;

No guarantees but worth a try.
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Drive Rescue

Kinda need a reply quick if anyone can at my friends house and really need an answer.

Last night I tried installing a new operating system, 2000 Pro from windows Me
It loaded correctly and everything according to the install wizard, but it said it couldn't find NTLDR at the startup screen I tried reinstalling windows but it didn't work. So being the DA that I am, I deletd my windows folder in hopes that reinstalling over a blank directory would help my problem. It didn't so now I'm stuck without an operating system and no way to get it back. I don't want to format if there's any way around it, because I have about 25 gigs worth of info that I would rather not lose.
Thank you if you can help with my dilemma

i have 10 gigs hard disk. that hard disk has two partions. one primary and another one is non dos partion....o have two operation systems. one is win98........another one is unix.but unix operating system is fail.
in this time i want delete my non dos partion.in fdisk command its nt continue...
how to delete non dos partion
thank u sir