[ale] Re: partition hell

[Jim]

Well, things are somewhat clearer, even if I'm not much better off. I 
expanded the DOS partition on this disk using parted from my Linux drive 
before it died. Apparently, this leaves the partition table in a strange 
state that fips can't handle. The system indicator is 55h and fips can 
only handle 4 or 6. Fips also indicates there are three partitions, 
while DOS fdisk says there is only one. It may be time to write to the 
author of fips, since I can't get parted to function in Windows with 
this drive (I did it just fine on another Windows system). If I were 
more of a DOS weenie, I might know how to edit the partition table, but 
I'm lost there. I'm still open to suggestions...very open.

Jim wrote:
> My Linux hard drive finally died (never again for Western Digital!). Now 
> I'm trying to partition my existing drive for Linux. My preferred tool 
> is parted on boot and root disks. But I can't for the life of me get a 
> good write of the images to disk using rawrite. It pretends to do 
> something, but nothing gets written to the disk. If I try fips, it says 
> it can't work with a system flag of 55h and exits. If I try to boot to 
> DOS only from Win98, I get a prompt and then a message about my 
> soundcard and I can't get back to the prompt from there. At this point, 
> I'm almost ready to nuke the entire drive and start over. Any suggestions?
> 



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