From: mobrien@aix09.unm.edu (michael james obrien)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: can linux save my fat partion?
Date: 3 Jan 2001 19:13:56 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <92vtlk$s0c$2@lynx.unm.edu>
References: <3a533185@duster.adelaide.on.net>

§henki (hello_the_haxor@hotmail.com) wrote:
: hey
: was using partion magic to merge to partions, and the power failed during
: the operation. the larger boot partion is still working, but the smaller
: that was to be joined to the larger has now become unaccssable, listed as
: "partion type: 1F (hex) Type 1F" in partion magic. is it possible to recover
: the data, even just long enough to burn it to cd, under either windows or
: linux?

: your ideas would be very much appricated

: shenki [:)


Hmmm... Well you could try the linux fdisk  to reset the partition type to 
whatever it was previously (FAT 16, FAT 32, or VFAT).  Then you could try 
to mount it with linux and burn the data.  No gaurantees though... a 
power failure with the opration you described is pretty bad.