At 01:18 AM 6/4/05 -0700, Neil wrote:
I don't remember if you said why you wanted to reinstall FC3. As I understand you already have it running. Is something not working right for you, or are we talking about two different systems? What are you trying to accomplish? -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net
I have an existing install that is working. Windows on Primary and first logical drive, and FC3 is on three partitions (created automatically by FC2 during install process- then FC3 installed on top of FC2)
The reason for reinstall - I just installed Partition Magic 8 ('cause it was on sale!). It launched but reported lots of errors which I let it correct, but then ultimately would not display partition info. ("Init failed Error 17") I contacted Tech support and sent the partition report. They said there are overlapping partitions... that the system runs now, but could have problems of overwrite when data is written to the overlap region(s). So my approach is to fix or reinstall and would like to figure out what's going on. What I'm trying to accomplish is to have the partitions set up without any overlapping regions. This could be by fixing, partial reinstall, or complete reinstall. However, I would like to understand the structure which would be lost by wiping out everything and starting over. Partitions are much more complicated than I thought.
In addition to getting a partition report from Partition Magic, I discovered the Linux Fdisk command with readonly option. I ran it and it listed the partitions without reporting any errors. The first line cites the number of bytes. The number is greater than Heads*Cylinders*Sectors*512. The reported number is greater then the product by approx 1.5 M (on a 60 G hd). Would these "extra" bytes come from using more bytes per sector on the outer sectors? It creates difficulty when trying to figure where the head boundaries are located (one of the Partition Magic complaints was partitions boundaries not occurring on head boundaries)
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