I believe it to be a Linux Partitioning Utilty

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Regards

John

MCP Windows XP Professional


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>> Hi,
>>
>> I did a dumb thnig (no, a VERY dumb thing).
>> I'd just like to confirm it was an irreversably stupid thing, but if
>> there's any way of me recovery I'd love to hear it.
>>
>> I booted Knoppix (in the form of Auditor Security Collection) from CD
>> in IBM T43.
>> Then,
>> mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda1
>>
>> thinking this was a USB flash drive.
>> I mounted it as type vfat, created a directory & wrote a small text
>> file to it all off which worked.
>>
>> Turns out /dev/sda1 is WinXP partition of the HD, hence when CD is
>> removed & laptop booted, C: is no longer bootable.
>>
>> The C: drive has 2 partitions, /dev/sd1 mentioned above & /dev/sda2
>> which I think is where the IBM Recovery data is for getting laptop back
>> to factory default.
>>
>> Is there any way to correct this so WinXP will boot?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Regards, MH
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> What does mkdosfs do?
> How far does the WinXP boot process go?
> What error messages (if any) do you see?
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