Need help repairing hosed hard disk

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Gary

Hello kind gurus,

Heres what I did:

I have a 20GB hard disk, 1 primary partition, with Windows 98 on it
running dual boot with Linux Mandrake 9.0. The Windows drive was
copied from another one using the Linux dd= and of= commands. I wanted
to copy this partition to yet another 20GB drive using dd, but the
"new" drive was a slightly smaller 20GB drive, so I fired up Partition
Magic and resized the partition by a few hundred Meg. I should mention
while doing all of this, I disconnected the drive with Mandrake on it
and moved the hosed drive to the primary IDE controller. After PM
finished and rebooted, the boot process hung after the message
"Verifying DMI Pool" appeared. I booted from a DOS floppy and tried to
access the "C" drive, but I get an "invalid media type" message. I
Plugged the Mandrake drive back in and moved the Windows drive back
where it started, booted to Linux and saw that I could mount and read
the Windows filesystem from there. Moved the drives around again,
booted to a DOS disk and tried the fdisk /mbr. No change.

What now?

Thank you,
Gary
 
Boy, you guys are good! Somehow you knew I could fix this problem
myself, so you let me! Thanks to your brilliant insight, I not only
repaired my corrupted OS boot sector, but I learned a lot in the
process!

Thanks again!
Gary
 
Gary said:
Boy, you guys are good! Somehow you knew I could fix this problem
myself, so you let me!
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Well, you got lucky.
Thanks to your brilliant insight, I not only repaired my cor-
rupted OS boot sector, but I learned a lot in the process!
Click to expand...

Yes, we aren't always here to keep the attention starved slaves from
doing your homework for you.
 
Gary said:
Boy, you guys are good! Somehow you knew I could fix this problem
myself, so you let me! Thanks to your brilliant insight, I not only
repaired my corrupted OS boot sector, but I learned a lot in the
process!

Thanks again!
Gary
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Hello, Gary:

Don't mention it, glad to be of service! <G>


Cordially,
John Turco <[email protected]>
 
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