I had the exact same problem. I was showing my Linux partitions in the
extended partition. My solution was to back up my important Linux data
(Windows had been copied). I then deleted the first partition and wrote it
back. Your scandisk/defrag may possibly have made recovery of your
Linux data difficult at best. If you happen to know exactly what your other
partition extents were, you can write the new partition table without
destroying any data in those partitions. Just make sure you don't format
or anything else. I have actually done this in the past where I somehow
messed up my partition table. You must have all your numbers right. If
you set up a boot partition in front of your root (eg. /) partition, you will
have a better chance. In other words, your former /dev/hda5 is probably
trashed. hda6 and following each have a better chance.
The approach I would use is to boot my SuSE install disk, and run the
YaST partition tool. Once I have the partitions set up, drop into a virtual
terminal to examine the partitions. This way you can use a trial and error.
It's not very much fun, but it learns you a good lesson (sic.).
On 24 Mar 00, at 10:59, Adam Wendt wrote:
> Partition Magic shows
> volume type
> c: check failed
> *: extended
> *: free space
> *: free space
>
> when i try to get info on c: it says error #113 partitions overlap
>
> Is there anyway to fix this without loosing my data? Is c: overlapping onto
> the linux drive so maybe some of my data is dead anways?
>
> Also I should have 3 logical partitions: two ext2 and one swap and the
> sizes for the free space are wrong for what i had before.
>
> *Pulls his hair out*
>
> =Adam=
>
> At 06:53 AM 3/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >hda2 is your extended partition containing hda5, ....
> >If you have partition magic, I would run it and check your partition table.
> >
> >Adam Wendt wrote:
> > > I was minding my own business, playing The Sims in windows and I got this
> > > wonderful idea to run defrag and scandisk all went well until I tried to
> > > boot into linux and BAM! I get something like this:
> > >
> > > Partition Check
> > > hda: hda1 hda2 < > (now hda1 is windows and hda2 is the extended
> > > partition but I should have a hda5 and hda6 also which is where linux is)
> > > then it says
> > >
> > > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > >
> > > and then some other stuff I didn't take the time to write down word for
> > word
> > >
> > > So obviously if lilo can find the kernel image to get that far my data is
> > > still there buy it seems the partition table is messed up or something?
> > > I'm really quite lost here so any help would be greatly appreciated
> > >
> > > =Adam=
> > >
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