On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Adam Wendt wrote:
> ... 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! ... it seems the
> partition table is messed up or something?
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Adam Wendt wrote:
> when i try to get info on c: it says error #113 partitions overlap
Ugh. You're either about to be very glad you made backups of your system,
or about to start wishing you did. :-(
There really isn't any good way to recover from your partitions being
scrambled. They are too fundamental to the system. The fact that everything
is peachy in Windoze seems to indicate that your partitions have been
overlapping for some time now, and it wasn't until you ran DEFRAG (which moves
things all over the place, including the end of the disk) that Windows and
Linux actually collided.
As others have said, if you know *exactly* how your partitions were supposed
to be laid out, you can recreate their positions on the disk. PowerQuest (the
Partition Magic people) has a good partition table editor for DOS and Windows,
available from their FTP site. Or you can try Linux's "fdisk" in "Expert
Mode", but I haven't trusted Linux's "fdisk" since it scrambled a few
partition tables for me.
But even if you can restore your partition layout, that won't help you much
if (1) DEFRAG has over-written critical parts of your Linux filesystem or (2)
the partition layout was bogus from day one.
Your best bet is probably to just nuke the whole system and start over from
scratch. Wipe the partition table completely and recreate a new layout. If
you do use Linux's "fdisk" to do this, make *sure* you have the most recent
version, as I think the most serious data eating bugs have been fixed.
--
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