PARTITION MAGIC 5.0 messed up WIn98 - HELP

[Voland]

A couple of days ago, I created an NTFS partition and I installed Win2K on it by booting from the Win2K cd. Win2k works, but now my older Windows 98 FAT32 partition doesn't work. When I select (in NT loader) to boot from it, it says "Inavlid System Disk." I booted into Win2k and looked at the FAT32 Windows 98 partition. It has two new folders: FOUND.000 and FOUND.001 each containing about 9000 recovered file fragments. Look like no good. The folders that were on that partition seem to be still there, but now they are files, and I can't open/browse them. So looks like, PM messed up the file system.
Well, if any one has ny suggestion here, PLEASE let me know. I have some valuable data I need on my FAT32 partition, which I would like to recover.
Let me know, if you need more details.

 

[cparker]

I'll give it a try. First, I hope you used the PM5 version that supports win2k. I kind of recall that the original pm5 doesn't but you can download a version that does from the Pquest web site if you are registered. Second, did you hide the fat32 w98 bootable primary partition when you created the ntfs w2k partition? If you did, then w2k would not be able to see the w98 partition and wouldn't be able to do anything to it. If the partition was not hidden then w2k could have done things to it, which I suspect is what probably happened. The way to go about having a w98 and a w2k partition on the same drive would be to use the PM boot manager or else to manually go into PM to switch active partitions. You might try to us PM to hide the w2k partition and then make the w98 partition active and see if it would boot. That's about the most I can offer other than your contacting power quest's tech support.