Paul Medwell wrote:
>
> Is there anyway of getting back the data on my Windows drive????

If you formatted the drive, about the only way I know of would be
expensive to have done by a professional data recovery service.

> Also, why can't I now access this drive from RedHat, since I formatted
> it using fdisk in Linux? When I try and mount it I get a message saying
> that it is not a valid filesystem.

Because "fdisk" doesn't format the disk. It is a partitioning
tool. You can format the partitions during the installation.

> Out of interest, what could be wrong with the RedHat installation that
> neither LILO nor GRUB work properly? (But my most important question is
> how to recover my Windows drive!!)

When you ran "lilo -v" after booting with into rescue mode did it
show any error message?
If it did what did it say?
What does your /etc/lilo.conf file look like?

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