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I just installed mandrake and it has corrupted my partition
table. I have a dual boot system, win98.
The original set-up of the drive was c:, free space, extended
partition with one logical partition (D:), I was going to install FreeBSD which
does not need to be in the extended partition.
During the install I chose the auto option when creating the
Linux partitions. Every thing installed OK, but when I later rebooted in to
windows, I could not access my D drive, it was there in explorer but when I
tried to access it it said that a device attached to the computer was not
functioning. I rebooted Linux and had a sniff around & discovered that the
/home partition had the same end address as the start of the D drive. I thought
that this was the problem so I blew away the partition as I new I could log in
as root & just add some new users. This fixed the over lapping problem, but
highlighted another problem. I tried to run fsck on the hard drive, but it could
not find fsck.vfat & would fail. I ran partition magic and it reported error
114, which is 'Start of Logical vs. EPBR is not correct'. I believe this has
something to do with Linux 'stetching' the size of the extended partition to
cover all the Linux partitions, any ideas on how I can fix this? I really need
the data on the D drive, otherwise I'd just blow the whole thing away &
start again :{
TIA Jeff.
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Jeffrey Fearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer & Software Engineer ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
