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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:12:23 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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Sheridan George wrote:
>
> ... It looks like the failed mobo scrambled one of my disk drives.
> ... FDISK says the partition table may be corrupted.

I called Sheridan. He's using IDE; his hardware connections are:

Primary Channel: Master (logical partition for swap file)
Slave (the bad drive w/3 primary partitions)
Secondary Channel: Master (all logical partitions)
Slave (CD-ROM)

I made two suggestions:

1. Check the new motherboard's CMOS to make sure his drive mode wasn't
changed ("LBA", "LARGE" and "NORMAL" are incompatible, i.e. "sector 224"
is a different physical sector depending on which setting you have).

He's using "AUTO" and the new motherboard is exactly the same as the old
one, so "AUTO" should be okay.

2. Use a utility program to scan the entire drive, find the partition
signatures and restore the missing partition table info. I thought this
was in Graham Utilities, but in looking through the manual while on the
phone with Sheridan I couldn't find it.

Anybody know where this utility is?

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