On Tuesday 23 January 2001 15:30, you wrote:
> 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.
Mark
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