[ale] partition does not end on a cylinder boundary huh ?

[Courtney Thomas]

Greg,

Thanks for your reply.

This disk does use LBA addressing but when I bootup with Tom'sRootBoot 
floppy's fdisk...the error message as quoted shows up whenever I print 
out the disks partitions.

The HD will boot indicating that the first partition is OK but the 
second is inaccessible.

BTW, I AM workin' with a dd copy but thanks again for the warning.

Is there anything public domain that might provide the functionality of 
Partition Magic that you suggest using. I don't have it.

Appreciatively,

Courtney



Greg Freemyer wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:10:16 -0500, Courtney Thomas
> <ccthomas at joimail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I can't access the data on a partition that does not end on a cylinder
>>boundary that is described as follows:
>>
>>Device
>>        Starts  Ends    Blocks
>>/dev/hda2
>>257
>>4866
>>37026360
>>
>>with error message:
>>        Partition #2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>>
>>Cyl Hd Sect... (1023,144,63) should be (1023,254,63)
>>
>>Can I use Tom's Root Boot floppy to remedy this ?
>>
>>If yes, HOW ?
>>
>>If no, then what....
>>
>>Appreciatively,
>>
>>Courtney
>>
> 
> Is this an old disk?  ie. Old enough it uses CHS addressing?  
> 
> Anything from this millenium would use LBA addressing, and the CHS
> info is basically just dummied up to allow booting IIRC.
> 
> If this is a newer disk, it looks to me as if your partition table /
> boot sector is corrupt.
> 
> If this disk is valuable to you, I would get a backup of the whole
> thing before I started trying to fix it.
> 
> As to fixing it, I would try booting up partition magic and see if it
> can repair the partition table.
> 
> Greg
> 


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