sorry for this long email. hello. i recently (yesterday) ruined my partition table. i was running caldera opendos on my small swap-turned-dos partition, and tried to set it active. told it to restore boot record, but it was misnamed, and totaled my partition table, i think. i know my data is not lost - i hope -, and am wondering what i can do to restore it. the equipment i have available is: 1 386, had a dectalk pc, can always bring that out of my newer pc and put it back, i will do that anyway. a windows pc, with the dectalk pc moved to it - and the pc that ran linux. those two pcs - windows and linux - are the same, with a removable hd for the os and a linux data disk with a tiny dos partition for winblows crap. the partition table of my linux disk is something like: hda1: xx mb ext2 hda2: 256 mb swap-turned-fat hda3: rest of disk, linux / how can i restore my partition table? i forgot the size of the first partition though. i think it was either 20 or 50 mb, and this is around a 5 gig drive. i have avoided writing to the new c drive on that disk - since it might get ruined because dos thinks it's in the wrong place. loadlin didn't work, but i didn't have my full kernel. i'll try to download one off slackware's site today, if i get a chance.
