Hi all, I've been messing around with my system after I couldn't boot onto windows anymore (see post a few threads back). I had the clever (!!!) idea of messing around with the MBR, first from Linux (using dd ...) then from DOS using fdisk /mbr. Now, what used to be my main primary master drive with a primary, extended, linux and linux swap partitions on shows in fdisk only a Primary Dos partition the size of the disk. I can't find my linux partition anywhere. No sign of the windows partitions. I fear the worse, but just before I pull out the installs, maybe someone has some idea? Even just maybe to save some of the files in that black hole? Thanks either way Klou

http://www.computing.net/faq/contentdos/fixcorrupt.html have you tries acessing linux form linux floppy?

In case someone in future suffers the same woes, I found a magnificent little program called TestDrive on the net. This restored my partitions back to their original state in no time.