Folks, make this exhibit A on why you should never play with partitions
that have data on them.
Doug, i realize that you had little choice, since you had a dead HD on
your hands. But when people give me dirty looks for warning them not to
resize partitions, this is why. Its playing with fire.
--- "Douglas J. Hunley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 July 2001 13:17, Net Llama babbled:
> > Wow, what a mess. I think the key to the kingdom here is what you
> used
> > to play with the partitions (resizing etc). Whatever that was, it
> > royally fuxored your partition table. Hopefully its not partition
> > magic.
> >
> > Doug, if you're really desperate for a working HD, i could have one
> in
> > your hands by Tuesday morning. Let me know.
>
> gnu parted. stupid thing actually let me create a parition that didn't
> line
> up on a cylinder boundary....
>
> I've since used cfdisk to repartition the drive... but it still acts
> as if
> the fubarred partitioning is there...
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