Hello everyone,
Let me thank you all in advance if you can help me out with my dilemma here.
Here is what happened, I had Windows 98 installed on another machine and decided I wanted to put Linux on there also. So, for some odd reason instead of using fdisk for Linux, I used partition magic and created a 25 GB partition for Linux. Well, when I rebooted and tried to install Linux, it could not mount. Not a big deal I guess, I'll try something else. I then went to boot windows back up and I had Error 1 when loading the OS and then the machine locked up. Eventually I got back into the system and realized that Partition magic had done something strange and I only had an 8 gb primary DOS partition and that was it. So, running out of options I deleted the partition and then tried to create a new one. All I could create was an 8 GB partition again. My question is, where did all of my disk space go and how can I get it back? I wouldn't mind if I still had some of the info I had on the Windows 98 partition but I bet that is gone. So, if there's anyway just to reset my hard drive and partition table so that it's all formated and I have my 200 GBs back I'd love to hear. Again, thanks in advance.
-Matt
Let me thank you all in advance if you can help me out with my dilemma here.
Here is what happened, I had Windows 98 installed on another machine and decided I wanted to put Linux on there also. So, for some odd reason instead of using fdisk for Linux, I used partition magic and created a 25 GB partition for Linux. Well, when I rebooted and tried to install Linux, it could not mount. Not a big deal I guess, I'll try something else. I then went to boot windows back up and I had Error 1 when loading the OS and then the machine locked up. Eventually I got back into the system and realized that Partition magic had done something strange and I only had an 8 gb primary DOS partition and that was it. So, running out of options I deleted the partition and then tried to create a new one. All I could create was an 8 GB partition again. My question is, where did all of my disk space go and how can I get it back? I wouldn't mind if I still had some of the info I had on the Windows 98 partition but I bet that is gone. So, if there's anyway just to reset my hard drive and partition table so that it's all formated and I have my 200 GBs back I'd love to hear. Again, thanks in advance.
-Matt