restoring a partition after a format?

[iamrick]

Hi, i have a 20 gig HD partitoned with maxblast into 3 partitions(c,d,e) my operating system was on c, the other two were saved data. i was having problems with the operating system (win98) so i thought i was told to reformat and reinstall. i booted into dos, reformatted the c drive, d and e were still ok but i could not access the cdrom to reinstall the os. so i rebooted from the startup disk, but now i have access to only the a drive and the c ram drive. i assume the partitions have been lost? how can i repartition without losing the data on d and e? or can i?
maxblast still shows 3 partitions but i am afraid to let it recreate the partitions it may wipe out the data already there. any help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance

 

[edfair]

Your data is safe until you do something unsafe. Maxblast needs to be added to the floppy. Earlier versions had a choice to do that. And you need the operating system on the c:.
Once you have the floppy where it will boot with cd support and with maxblast loaded, transfer the 98 install stuff to a directory on c: and do the install from there. You'll be happier that way. Install stuff is setup and the win98 subdirectory under that with the cab files and everything in that directory. Ed Fair
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