Can I make continuous linux partitions pretend to be something, to windows app

[Sylvain Girard]

I think the problem is that he is trying to restore his windows xp with the
disk provided by the OEM (IBM in this case, I believe) and that disk uses
partition magic for some reason.

On 8/18/06, Alan Mckinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 16:12 +0800, Kevin Zhao wrote:
> > LBA value is 30754475 and the CHS value is 15483824. The LBA and CHS
> > values must be equal ..." After this error it is Error 117,
> > "Partition's drive letter cannot be identified". Even if I let it to
> > fix error 116. It still has erro 117 and cannot initialize. Meanwhile,
> > Linux fdisk will complain error for overlapping, etc.
> >
> > So I leave the so called error 116 and 117 there.
> >
> > I am going to paste my fdisk result here after I switch to ubuntu.
>
>
> If you really need to fix this, then boot off any Linux LiveCD and look
> at the hard disk using fdisk. Write down the start and end cylinders of
> the Windows partitions, then delete them and recreate them with exactly
> the same values. Use the fdisk feature to fix the partition order if the
> order ends up being different to the physical position on the disk.
> Nothing gets deleted, and fdisk puts your partition table into the kind
> of shape it should be.
>
> After this, you can safely ignore any bitching partition magic insists
> on doing...
>
> alan
>
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