rbw wrote:
I'm stuck... maybe someone has seen this before...
I have a PIII 450 PC with a 160Gb Western Digital HD which is managed by
"Dynamic Drive Overlay v9.88" by OnTrack. I need to run Knoppix (v5.0.1
or v5.1.1) and mount that HD. Supposedly the solution is to ad the
following parameter when booting Knoppix like so:
knoppix hda=remap63
[snip]
Don't know if you have recovered this yet, but you might be able to take
a different approach to recovering the partitions. For all intents and
purposes, the disk is acting as if the partition table were damaged and
no longer valid. But the actual partitions are still there. In that
case, there are two tools I'm aware of that can find "lost" partitions
and help rebuild the partition table.
The first is called TestDisk <http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk>
and is included in the SystemRescueCD <http://www.sysresccd.org> and
also in Knoppix.
The second is called PRecover <http://precover.sourceforge.net> Not sure
if any of the rescue disks have this on them.
To recover the partitions I suggest moving the disk to a newer machine
that can handle the large disk natively in the BIOS. The reason for
using the OnTrack in the first place was probably because of the BIOS
disk size limit. The OnTrack software intercepts BIOS Interrupt 13 (Disk
Services) and provides new mapping and functionality.
Once the disk is in the new machine, try using one of the above tools to
see if you can recover the partitions.
Gus
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