i managed to find some freeware tools to manualy fix my partition tables,
i'm not sure that was the original configuration, but it works. (the
linuxext and extended partitions were a bit of guess work)
i've just tried dirk drake again and it says
I can't read your partition table, it's too corrupt for me :(
i'll try to go on blanking bad partitions
more than one extended partition.
(so i'm going to kill it)...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pixel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 31 August 2000 11:25
> To: Oliver Stieber; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] diskdrake problems (7.1)
>
>
> Oliver Stieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > mandrake 7.1's diskdrake failed to recognise my partition
> information and
> > appeared to wipe out the partition table. (at lease it was
> empty when i next
> > rebooted)
> > after a bit of playing about with findpart and editpart
> (for dos) i have
> > rebuild the information.
>
> i don't get what diskdrake could find wrong here. Are you
> sure it was such a
> partition table (sorry for the trouble :-| )
>
> if you try again diskdrake, what does it say now?
> (don't let it write anything as it seems it doesn't like your hd!)
>
> >
> > drive size chs.
> > 2491,255,63
> >
> > rec type start chs end chs
> > 1 07 0,1,1 515,254,63
> > 2 07 516,0,1 1026,254,63
> > 3 linext? 1027,0,1 1796,254,63
> > 4 05? 1797,0,1 2054,254,63
>
>
