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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
