Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bobmon From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Recover from FDISK? (HELP!) Message-ID: <24673@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 15:06:32 GMT References: <36300057@iuvax> <1012@virtech.UUCP> <[1524.4]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP> Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Organization: malkaryotic Lines: 15 wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) <[1524.4]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP> : -It seems to me that this must vary with the version of 'DOS. Compaq DOS -3.31 most definitely reinitializes the FAT when fdisk is run. On the other -hand, I'm certain that I've recovered hard disks that had been fdisk'ed in -the past. Good point, although it isn't the DOS version per se. My Zenith v3.21 release, for example, doesn't supply `fdisk'; instead it supplies `part', and the documentation says "Any changes you make to the partition table with PART can destroy all existing data on your hard disk." On the other hand, a partitioning program that I played with as part of Minix certainly did not remove data; at one point I was repartitioning the disk repeatedly while trying to install Minix, and the files in the DOS partition stayed put even if I accidentally frobbed that partition as well as the others.