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Subject: Non-DOS partition Author: John Padgett [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 13:01:28 12/29/02 Sun Don´t ask me how it happened, but my computer was running an original and legal installation of Microsoft Office 98. Suddenly the next day after turning it on, it now displays a message that Windows detects an illegal copy of the program and now it has blocked accces to the hard drive. I have tried getting to my files, but DOS does no even recognices the C: disk with all my files. Also a second slave disk that was also connected is no longer available either. A friend of mine said that problably someone introduced a CDROM or a ZIP drive containing and illegal copy and probably Windows detected it and screwed up all the original partitions, so that the hard drives would no longer be able to be used unless they are formated again. The problem is that both disk contain very important files that I would like to recover before formating the disk and re-intalling all the software. After reading both disk with FDISK, it shows 3 partitions on both disk: 1 is Novell type, 2 and 3 are non-DOS partitions. And before this happend they both contained partitions of FAT32 type. Is there a way to read a non-dos partition? Can I get acces to my files? Any information will be most helpfull. Thank you. John Padgett [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]