Lief Hendrickson said:
> 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.
Did it act broken before you installed partition magic? I've seen this
type of partition overlap at the last installfest. After much
discussion the group came to the conclusion it was nothing to worry
about and proceeded with the install. As far as I am aware the system
ran fine. As I said before this problem commonly occurs when the bios
sees a different CHS geometry than the tool that you are using. The
way to make it go away is to make sure the bios and the tool agree.
Usually you can't adjust the bios easily, so you adjust the tool. I
don't use Partition Magic, I use fdisk for Linux. In fdisk you use the
advance mode to change the CHS view of the drive an voila, the error
disapears.
> 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)
Greater than what product, Partition Magic? I can't say why the two
don't agree. I can say I trust Linux fdisk to "Do the Right Thing"
(TM).
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