[newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Hi all, Sorry if I re-post, but the original message had no subject :-( I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Result after partitioning: 70GB NTFS - 10GB Ext3 - 1GB Swap Installation went OK. Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and everything works fine. The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move Any suggestion? Thanks Paolo Tavazzani Fastweb S.p.A. Via Caracciolo 51 20155 Milano Phone: +39 02 4545 4892 Mobile: +39 348 3673 626 Fax:+39 02 4545 4811 Paolo Tavazzani (E-mail).vcf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Paolo, Ignore the error message from PM, if you try and fix it you can hose your Linux installation (I did a long time ago). Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tavazzani Paolo Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Hi all, Sorry if I re-post, but the original message had no subject :-( I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Result after partitioning: 70GB NTFS - 10GB Ext3 - 1GB Swap Installation went OK. Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and everything works fine. The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move Any suggestion? Thanks Paolo Tavazzani Fastweb S.p.A. Via Caracciolo 51 20155 Milano Phone: +39 02 4545 4892 Mobile: +39 348 3673 626 Fax:+39 02 4545 4811 Paolo Tavazzani (E-mail).vcf -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Hi Tony, thanks for the suggestion. I must admit that, having installed the Linux partition just yesterday I could loose it and re-install without too many troubles. What I'm worried about is that, if PM is right, something crazy like a partition overlapping has happened and I could end up, when filling one of the two partitions, with trashing the other one and loosing some meaningful data. BTW, how have you solved the problem? While we are at it, If I should decide to re-install Linux from scratch, which is the best way to get rid of LILO and reset the XP boot process? Are the XP utilities to fix MBR OK? Thanks Paolo -Original Message- From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: lunedì 22 marzo 2004 15.03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Paolo, Ignore the error message from PM, if you try and fix it you can hose your Linux installation (I did a long time ago). Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tavazzani Paolo Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Hi all, Sorry if I re-post, but the original message had no subject :-( I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Result after partitioning: 70GB NTFS - 10GB Ext3 - 1GB Swap Installation went OK. Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and everything works fine. The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move Any suggestion? Thanks Paolo Tavazzani Fastweb S.p.A. Via Caracciolo 51 20155 Milano Phone: +39 02 4545 4892 Mobile: +39 348 3673 626 Fax:+39 02 4545 4811 Paolo Tavazzani (E-mail).vcf -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Paolo, PM reports this error when it is not really an error. You will always get it. (Have a look in the archives as there was a big discussion on this a while back). If you want to re-install Linux just put CD 1 in the drive and start again. My personal opinion is to not use PM at all. You can do all the partitioning through diskdrake. If you are happy with the current partition table you can just install over the top of the old install. As for the MBR I will leave that to one of my more knowledgeable list friends to answer as I never have had to deal with it. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tavazzani Paolo Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Hi Tony, thanks for the suggestion. I must admit that, having installed the Linux partition just yesterday I could loose it and re-install without too many troubles. What I'm worried about is that, if PM is right, something crazy like a partition overlapping has happened and I could end up, when filling one of the two partitions, with trashing the other one and loosing some meaningful data. BTW, how have you solved the problem? While we are at it, If I should decide to re-install Linux from scratch, which is the best way to get rid of LILO and reset the XP boot process? Are the XP utilities to fix MBR OK? Thanks Paolo -Original Message- From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: luned 22 marzo 2004 15.03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Paolo, Ignore the error message from PM, if you try and fix it you can hose your Linux installation (I did a long time ago). Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tavazzani Paolo Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Hi all, Sorry if I re-post, but the original message had no subject :-( I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Result after partitioning: 70GB NTFS - 10GB Ext3 - 1GB Swap Installation went OK. Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and everything works fine. The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move Any suggestion? Thanks Paolo Tavazzani Fastweb S.p.A. Via Caracciolo 51 20155 Milano Phone: +39 02 4545 4892 Mobile: +39 348 3673 626 Fax:+39 02 4545 4811 Paolo Tavazzani (E-mail).vcf -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
On Monday 22 March 2004 08:54 am, Tavazzani Paolo wrote: The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move The problem is with Partition Magic, I think that the newer versions may work better but from previous experience, the older versions don't work well with certain Linux partitions. If you really must use a Windows tool for partitions, you might consider getting Paragon Partition Manager. It is a superior tool, IMHO, and will happily copy, format, move, extend all Linux partitions that I have ever run into including ReiserFS, EXT3, 2, etc. It also will not report the erroneous error messages that you are currently seeing. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: If you really must use a Windows tool for partitions, you might consider getting Paragon Partition Manager. It is a superior tool, IMHO, and will happily copy, format, move, extend all Linux partitions that I have ever run into including ReiserFS, EXT3, 2, etc. It also will not report the erroneous error messages that you are currently seeing. Hey, nice. Partition Magic was groaning and complaining, wanting to fix things (scary) when I tried to fire it up, but I bought gasp! a copy of Paragon PM and it quickly did the NTFS resizing, etc., that Partition Magic had been balking at; no errors, no complaints, and I'm still here. :) Thx. -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Partition Magic (and the Windows partitioning tool) expect partitions to begin and end on cylinder boundaries. Both make sure this is the way the disks are physically partitioned. Linux has no such limitation, and this is probably the reason for the PM error. Windows partitions will run just fine if not ended on a cylinder boundary, as Linux partitions do also. If you're looking for a good Windows partition utility, I wound up buying Paragon Hard Disk Manager (I've no affilliation with them, just a user), and have used the app on several occasions where PM failed to work. Once you get the error, you can't use PM, it will fail to start. I believe there are some free partitioning tools out there, Ranish partition manager comes to mind, but I haven't used it in years. As was mentioned already in this thread, *do not* use PM to repair the non-error. If you do, you'll have a non-working Linux installation. I believe the utility to access the Linux ext2 and ext3 file systems from Windows is still included with Paragon, if you have a need for such access. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Are the XP utilities to fix MBR OK? Yes, fixboot and fixmbr will do the trick, used from the recovery console, and restore the MBR. After a Linux reinstall, just allow lilo to reinstall iteslf into the MBR as usual. I don't think you really have a problem with your file system though. I am more inclined to believe that you have run up against the PM limitation I described earlier. PM is not a good tool to use along with other partitioning utilities. If you want to use PM, use it and no other utility to partition and format all of your partitions, then install Linux into these pre-partitioned locations. I agree with other advice eariler in the thread, use some other utility without the limitation. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
