Partition Table (Resend)
Matthew S-H
mathbymath at aol.com
Wed May 4 18:09:53 UTC 2005
I actually do have Partition Magic. It is a slightly old version
(version 4.0), but it works fine. The only thing is that I don't get
how I could use Partition Magic to repair the information.
~Matt
On May 3, 2005, at 5:43 AM, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005 03:38 pm, Matthew S-H wrote:
>> I'm resending this because I didn't get any responses. I'm
>> desperately
>> hoping someone can help me. I don't want to have to erase the entire
>> hard drive. If anyone has any ideas on how I can down by one (ie:
>> hdb8 becomes hdb9), I would appreciate it. I hope that would solve my
>> problem.
>
> THE obvious answer is to restore your hda1 boot partition using a
> floppy disk
> (you DID prepare one for this purpose, didn't you?).
> Then use your ubuntu floppy to boot into ubuntu (don't tell me - you
> don't
> have one of those, either :-) ) and reinstall grub into the mbr.
>
> You could also use the ubuntu liveCD to achieve the restoration of
> grub.
>
> An alternative is to beg/borrow/buy Partition Magic and use floppy
> disks
> prepared from it to reboot and examine and repair your partition
> information.
>
> Your partition schedule is so unusual it is almost bound to lead to
> trouble.
> You should merge the free space partitions with adjacent occupied
> partitions
> as soon as possible after you have your system running and have
> prepared
> backups.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Brian
>
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