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Date: | Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:33:58 PST |
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Subject: | SCOUG-Help: Corrupted Partition Table |
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No I can't. FDISK will only allow 'delete partition' and my edition of
PartitionMagic doesn't have any such option (it's either too old or the OS/2 text
version (pqmqgict) which I have to use booting from floppies does not include it in
the menu). For disk #2, all it says is: "0 MB Partition table error #116 found".
Error #116 is: "Partition table begin and start inconsistant". My menu choices for
this disk are: Select a new drive; Select a new partition (which only repeates the
error #116 message); Info. about PartitionMagic; and Exit PartitionMagic.
The partition that has the C: in front of it is the OS/2 partition. Neither boot
manager nor WinNT have anything in front of them.
Nothing has startable or bootable in front of it. (Right Steve. Its startable. I
I don't have the Gammatek utilities so GTDISK is unavailable to me.
FDISK does report a size for all three unreachable partitions. The reported sizes
Tony, I don't like you using the word 'toast' yet even though that is probably my
Peter Skye wrote:
> Okay, back to "Auto" mode.
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knew that.
are close to what I set but I don't know if the numbers are exactly correct. If
they are how would I patch the partition table or verify the values as Steve
suggested?
condition.
>
> Can you boot directly to either your OS/2 or Windows partition? Use
> your Partition Magic to make the desired partition "Active", then boot
> your machine. The motherboard BIOS looks at the primary partitions (on
> all drives) and boots to the first one it finds that's marked "Active".
> Use Partition Magic's "Advanced .. Set Active" option (I think
>
> - Peter
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