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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 23:32:15 PST
From: Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Corrupted Partition Table

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> Peter Skye wrote:
> > 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).

Lists [Sheridan] wrote:
> 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).

P.M. Version 3.03 has the above menu selections. :)

> For disk #2, all it says is: "0 MB Partition table error #116 found".
> Error #116 is: "Partition table begin and start inconsistant".
...
> FDISK does report a size for all three unreachable partitions. The reported sizes
> 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?

Okay, things are looking a little better. :)

Look in your Graham Utilities pink manual at DiskEdit (see p. 149 and p.
359), and especially the section "Edit Partition Table" beginning on p.
359 and going to the top of p. 364. (And see the first paragraph on p.
150 about editing the partition table.)

Run DiskEdit and print the screen, so you have a printout of all the
partition table values. Then exit DiskEdit.

Now post what you just printed out so we can see what part of the
partition table might be scrambled.

(Tech note to readers: I know Sheridan has DiskEdit 'cause I talked to
him on the phone. The values in the partition table don't all start on
byte boundaries, which makes hex editing of it sorta difficult.
Graham's DiskEdit allows editing of the ten fields in each of the four
partition table entries, and you edit the numeric values of the fields,
not the hex values of the bytes.)

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