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Hello
I had almost exactly the same problem.
I modified the partition of a 60GB Disk and the
partition table trashed.
Fortunately I had the DiLinux Install image in one of
my CDs, which includes a tool that helps you rebuild
your partition table, (I dont remember the name of
this tool right now, but I will check)
it helps to know the geometry of the disk: cylinders
or
tracks, number of sectors, sectors per track.
Also it is very helpful to remember approximately how
the disk was partitioned for instance
the first partition hda1 was about 8GB with NTFS
the second partition hda2 was about 6GB with ext2fs
etc.
>From this the tool will search a signature of known
filesystems through a range of sectors.
Please indicate your Email, so I can attach the binary
directly to you.
Bye!
-HHMM
hh_mm AT yahoo.com



--- baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> >
> > The cfdisk that came with BL2 does not make
> extended linux partitions.
> 
> According to this,
>
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/IBM7248-HOWTO/cfdisk.html,
> cfdisk
> automatically makes extended partitions as needed.
> 
> > fdisk -l says:
> > Unable to seek on /dev/hdb.
> >
> > cfdisk:  fdisk /dev/hdb says
> > FATAL ERROR:  Bad logical partition 4:  Partition
> ends before sector 0.
> 
> It seems as though your partition table got
> corrupted (due to some
> kind of error?).
> 
> > How do I fix this problem other than transferring
> files to a different
> > drive and reformatting this one with dd?
> 
> I think you would need to use a more advanced
> partitioning tool, one
> designed to fix partition table errors. If you
> happen to have a backup
> of the partition table/boot sector area, and did not
> change anything
> else, you should be able to restore that and try
> again.  Otherwise I
> don't know of any way, except for re-partitioning.
> 
> > Another drive let me make a fourth primary
> partition as DOS extended with
> > a linux partition in that, but it messes up the
> drive letters on hda which
> > is four DOS partitions.
> 
> What is the difference between DOS and linux
> extended? AFAIK they are the same.
> 
> Were the drive letters scrambled in DOS?
> 
> David
> 
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