Ron,
Thank you for responding, but unfortunately what you've suggested is not an
option at this time. I need to get this fixed as it at this time. If you or
anyone else can suggest an effective way this can be accomplished I would
really appreciate it.
thanks,
Mark
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 07:54, you wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> > So, I said all that to ask this. Is there a way that I can fix this
> > problem without destroying the filesystem, and having to reload yet
> > again?
>
> Use Partition Magic (yes, it costs - and does not support Reiserfs)
> to copy all the good partitions to another physical drive (yes, buy
> it if necessary), then delete all the partitions on your first disk
> and set it up LBA and copy back those partitions. PM comes with an
> excellent DOS utility (PARTINFO.EXE) on the rescue floppies that
> fully reports all errors and warnings on your partition tables. This
> must run without producing any w or e messages before your drives can
> be considered safe and time-bomb free.
>
> A useful tip is to add a smallest size partition to the end of your
> extended primary partition as a protective sentinel. A great deal of
> software gets it wrong when it has to test for end of partition
> during writing when there are three tests it must make - end of
> partition, end of extended partition, and end of physical disk.
> These three things are NOT the same on many disk setups --> chaos!
> The never-accessed sentinel partition fixes this.
