peter wu wrote:
Hi, all,
I have a dual-boot system (WinXP & Fedora 3), but during further
partitioning of C: drive with PartitionMagic, for some reason, it got
really hosed up. Now I lost access to Linux (but luckily, I can boot to
WinXP from GRUB).
- I tried to boot from Linux CD and 'linux rescue' but I don't have
/mnt/sysimage, and this method failed.
- I also tried 'fdisk -l' but it returns nothing, and can't do anything
further.
Since I seem to have Windows, I tried to just reinstall Linux with
installation CD, but it gave me an error saying "No Drives Found." The
msg said there was no valid device on which to create new file systems.
So, I decided to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows, but the
reinstallation method provided by Dell (my computer manufacturer)
doesn't work on the machine.
- I tried to boot from the Windows CD. I get the following msg: "Setup
is inspecting your compute! r's hardware configuraton..." Then the
computer hangs.
The system seems to be really messed up. Is there any way to get out of
this mess? I am basically looking for ways to format hard drive.
I'd appreciate your help, in advance.
--peter
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If you have a floppy drive, you may be able to make a boot disk and
put the old dos commands of fdisk and format on it.
This might also be useful.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
One of the tools may be helpful.
In one of your previous posts you mentioned that PartitionMagic left
your drive in an strange state and the Linux partition full. It has
been years since I last used PM, but doesn't it allow a undo feature
to be saved? Or did you skip that step? :)
