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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:42:38 PST
From: Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Corrupted Partition Table

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I finally got my replacement mobo working. (Discovered I didn't get the CPU
seated fully,
he says with a very red face hanging way out.) It looks like the failed mobo
scrambled one
of my disk drives. The computer won't bootup because there is no "bootable
dirve".
FDISK says the partition table may be corrupted. And it will not allow any
operation
except 'delete the partition'. PartitionMagic says there is an inconsistancy
in the partition
table and to use partinfo.exe. Partinfo complained bitterly (several screen
loads of: Starting sector inconsistant, Number of sectors inconsistant, and
Partition didn't end on a cylinder boundry; each with a bunch of numbers).

Booting with floppies, I have access to all partitions on all drives except: #1
a 400 meg FAT
for WinNT/95, #2 the boot manager, and #3 a 450 meg HPFS for OS/2. These three
partitions are at the start of the drive which is the secondary drive on
channel 1. The WinX and OS/2 partitions are primary (both C: drive). The
other three
partitions on that physical disk are logical. (There are 6 other logical
partitions on two additional physical drives - master channel 1 and master
channel 2. A CD-ROM
is secondary on channel 2. They are accessable and useable.)

Before I delete the three corrupted partitions, rebuild them, and reinstall
both
operating systems I thought I would ask if there is a better way. I don't keep
a backup of my operating systems nor am I yet smart enough to save my OS/2
archives
to one of the other physical drives. I do keep a log of driver and config.sys
changes so I can eventually get back to where I was but oh groan, groan ... .

Sheridan

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