https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1456&p=21835#p21835
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Monday, 13 June 2005, 12:23 AM


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A tip for the future.  An error while installing lilo or grub could foul up your haddrive's master boot record, and resulting in the inability to boot the disk, but the partions are still there and safe.

Once the drive is repartitioned with Windows the data is considered gone.  With Linux, use the program cfdisk to repartition back to how the disk was partitioned before and the data is again available.

For both of these situations, no special recovery tools are needed.  You will need recovery tools  only if the actual filesystem on the partition has been damaged.

When installing or reinstalling lilo or grub.  make sure that you have a working boot floppy or CD that will boot your system.  If the master boot record was damaged, you could restore it to MS's standard boot from a floppy or CD-Rom to the dos prompt and execute Dos/Windows version of fdisk with the /mbr option.

Pangor