Windows 98 file system messed up by Partition Magic 5.0 - 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.

 

[robisc]

I can't really help other than to suggest you check powerquest website or Deja discussions, I have had the last 2 vesrions of PM and have had good luck and bad, I have completely hosed a couple systems with it. I thought I had screwed up a system the last time I used it, when resizing or creating a partition PM stopped and then I had an error code for that partition, after checking Deja.com discussions I finally found out about Partinfo.exe and it actually was as easy as changing a setting for that partition, don't remember much about it though, you have a different problem but don't give up on it until you check around a little more.

 

[Mule]

Remember to ALWAYS back up your data before performing any modifications on the hard disk.