[Techtalk] Partitioning issues.

Staci scorcora at wisc.edu
Sat Jul 26 20:20:13 EST 2003


Yes and no.
It was a Win96 fat32 (lba).
But not bootable, just for storage.
and the answer is NO.  I cannot just reverse the changes.
I tried and it didn't work.

sl


On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Jacinta Richardson wrote:

> On 25 Jul 2003, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
>
> > Mary writes:
> >
> > > Assuming she recovers the data, there's nothing stopping her
> > > attempting to partition again.
> >
> > But I mean since she re-partitioned it from what it was, stopped,
> > realized her mistake, can she not simply reverse the changes to the
> > partition table?
>
> Yes this is correct.  So long as the same partitioning tool is used and
> the partition table is returned to exactly the same state.
>
> Staci, can you answer whether it was originally a linux partition?  And
> did you change it to be a Windows partition?  If it was originally a
> Windows partition then many of us have been giving you the wrong advice.
>
> 	Jacinta
>
>
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