Re: Corrupted partition table/drive

2007-03-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
J Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My goal was to erase the first three partitions (because I never used > them anymore) and combine them into one large ext2 partition for more > data storage. (There were a total of five or six between the > primary/extended.) Using the Ultimate Boot CD and X

Re: Corrupted partition table/drive

2007-03-14 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 13:27 -0700, J Merritt wrote: > I have a machine with three fixed disks: > hda = Windows XP (40 gb) > hdb = (see below) (60 gb) > hdc = ext2 partition for data storage (30 gb) > > hdb is the disk I'm having serious problems with. Before, the disk had > several partitions on i

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-30 Thread Brad Keryan
Wayne Topa wrote: > I upgraded from Debian packaged 2.4.2 kernel/headers to a kernel.org > 2.4.3 and now a 2.4.4 kernel. Due to space limitations, I removed the deb > kernel/header packages when I went to 2.4.3 because the deb package > wasn't available at the time. > > I have not seen any proble

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: corrupted partition table Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:49:20AM -0400 In reply to:Benjamin Black Quoting Benjamin Black([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hi everyone. > > a few days ago, my partition tables were fine. proof of fact: i > installed the new kernel-image-2.4.3-686 tha

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-30 Thread Brad Keryan
On 2001-04-21, Benjamin Black wrote: > hi everyone. > > a few days ago, my partition tables were fine. proof of fact: i > installed the new kernel-image-2.4.3-686 that was uploaded a few days > ago into my boot sector, and lilo did not complain; i am now running > that image. Hi. I am seeing th

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-21 Thread Benjamin Black
On 22 Apr 2001 00:44:13 +1000, Mark Purcell wrote: > > The very first thing to do is to take a backup copy of your existing partion > table as any changes to the partition table can be bad. See below... > i did that before i even posted the first message. > Once you have taken a backup copy you

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-21 Thread Mark Purcell
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:49:20AM -0400, Benjamin Black wrote: > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19590 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes > > Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 4909 2473978+ b Win95 FAT32 > Partition 1