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

[Courtney Thomas]

You're generous and I thank you... but would like to ask a/some 
question(s) before calling so maybe I can provide better
information  :-)

I used FDISK off Tom'sRootBoot floppy which reported the partition not 
on a cylinder boundary. The partition reported as not properly bounded 
is... an extended partition under [MS] NT4 sp6.

The active [boot] partition is C:\ [FAT16 LBA] and the extended 
partition contains D:\,E:\,F:\ [FAT32 LBA]. D,E & F are what I can't 
access, I guess because the extended partition is not properly aligned, 
though the drive will bootup.

I also used L-Soft's 'Active Data Recovery' program to initially recover 
the partitions [which ran under DOS6.2].

To further reveal all I have learned, DOS6.2 FDISK reports the 
partitions as 'nondos'.
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The Linux floppy's fdisk more specifically regarding the misaligned 
partition says:

Device 
	Start	End	Blocks		Id

/dev/hda2 
257 
4866 
37026360 
Extended

"partition 2 does not end on a cylinder boundary"
phys (1023,144,63)	should be	(1023,254,63)

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Given all the foregoing, what would you change and to what would you 
change it ?

Gratefully,

Courtney



Michael Trausch wrote:

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> Courtney Thomas wrote:
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>>Thanks Mike. I have the said CD but how do I know what the boundaries
>>should be ?
>>
>>I'm working on a disk copy and am willing to move 'stuff' around but how
>>do I know what to move and where to move it ?
>>
>>I realize I could just start guessing but I could be at this for more
>>than a couple of days by the 'guess' method.
>>
>>Any help ?
>>
>>Appreciatively,
>>
>>Courtney
>>
>>
> 
> My first guess would be to just attempt to resize the partition.
> The partition magic-style program should "know" where to place it.
> If you'd like, I can help you with it... give me a call.
> 
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