mandrake 7.1's diskdrake failed to recognise my partition information and
appeared to wipe out the partition table. (at lease it was empty when i next
rebooted)
after a bit of playing about with findpart and editpart (for dos) i have
rebuild the information.
drive size chs.
2491,255,63
rec type start chs end chs
1 07 0,1,1 515,254,63
2 07 516,0,1 1026,254,63
3 linext? 1027,0,1 1796,254,63
4 05? 1797,0,1 2054,254,63
find findpart report attached
Findpart, version 3.81.
Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2000.
Searches for partitions type 01, 04, 06, 07, 0B, 0C, 0E, 82, 83,
plus Fdisk F6 and Lilo sectors. Information based on bootsectors
is marked B. If the disk is larger than supported by BIOS, the
supported part of the disk is examined. Disks are numbered from 1.
OS: DOS 7.10
Disk: 1 Cylinders: 2491 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 19540
-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 - 07 63 8289477 4047 0 1 1 515 254 63 B OK
0 - 07 8289540 8209215 4008 516 0 1 1026 254 63 B OK
1027 1 82 63 497952 243 1027* 1 1 1057*254 63 OK
1027 2 05 498015 5205060 2541 1058* 0 1 1381*254 63 1027 OK
1058 1 83 63 5204997 2541 1058* 1 1 1381*254 63 NB OK
1058 2 05 5703075 498015 243 1382* 0 1 1412*254 63 1027 OK
1382 1 83 63 497952 243 1382* 1 1 1412*254 63 NB OK
1382 2 05 6201090 32130 15 1413* 0 1 1414*254 63 1027 OK
1413 1 83 63 32067 15 1413* 1 1 1414*254 63 OK OK
1413 2 05 6233220 6136830 2996 1415* 0 1 1796*254 63 1027 OK
1415 1 83 63 6136767 2996 1415* 1 1 1796*254 63 NB OK
1797 1 06 63 4144707 2023 1797* 1 1 2054*254 63 OK OK
-----FAT CHS -Size Cl --Root -Good -Rep. Maybe --Bad YYMMDD DataMB
780 0 24 Second FAT not found.
1797 1 2 253 32 512 253 0 0 0 000815 584
Partitions according to partition tables on first harddisk:
None.
