Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:33:46 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Serious boot problem - Help needed!
The 20GB Hitachi HDD in my L100 refuses to boot, hanging after the EZ-BIOS DOS message with a blinking underscore.
I have 1 primary partition C:, and 2 logical partitions D: and E: on a single extended partition. I had shrunk the E: partition with Partition Magic, then shrunk the extended partition to match it, then created a 1GB primary partition at the end of the drive to install an Win98SE Ghost image to do some testing. But in the middle of copying the image, Ghost burped, and quit the process with some error message I didn't make a note of.
Now the system doesn't get past the DOS EZ-BIOS messages. PM reports errors on C:, but none for D: or E:, saying that copies of FAT's don't match, and several errors for file sizes not matching FAT allocation for the file. I'm wondering if the MBR has become corrupted as well, though PM's 'Check' makes not mention of it. But with EZ-BIOS installed, I'm not sure if I can, or want to run FDISK /MBR successfully, or if there are better approaches for fixing things. I don't know if it's wise to run Scandisk at this point.
My copy of PM is past qualifying for support from Powerquest. It seems they were always the only people I could ever find who understood the arcane world of partitiioning and file systems well enough to address these problems.
Any suggestions on where to go from here would be greatly appreciated. I'll paste the output from PM's Partinfo.exe below if if makes sense to anyone.
Thanks,
Matt
Partinfo output. Interesting it reports no errors. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Partition Information Program Sep 16 2002 - DOS32 Version Copyright (c) 1994-2002, PowerQuest Corporation Permission is granted for this utility to be freely copied so long as it is not modified in any way. All other rights are reserved.
PowerQuest, makers of PartitionMagic(r), Drive Image(tm) and DriveCopy(tm), can be reached at
Voice: 801-226-6834 Web site: http://www.powerquest.com/support/
Fax: 801-226-8941 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BiosExtensions: 0x2000 Subsets (0x00000005): Access EDD
EGeo 0x0002 2432 255 63 39054015 0 512
============================================================================
Disk 0: 2431 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track.
BiosExtensions: 0x2000 Subsets (0x00000005): Access EDD The BIOS supports INT 13h extensions for this drive.
EZ-Drive is installed on this drive.
============================ Partition Tables ==============================
Partition -----Begin---- ------End----- Start Num
Sector # Boot Cyl Head Sect FS Cyl Head Sect Sect Sects
---------- - ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ---- ---- ---- ---------- ----------
0 0 80 0 1 1 0B 324 254 63 63 5221062
0 1 00 [ 325 0 1] 0F [1023 254 63] 5221125 24884685 [Large Drive Placeholders]
325 0 1 1873 254 63 Actual Values
5221125 0 00 325 1 1 0B 1015 254 63 5221188 11100852
5221125 1 00 1016 0 1 05 [1023 254 63] 16322040 208845 [Large Drive Placeholders]
1016 0 1 1028 254 63 Actual Values
16322040 0 00 1016 1 1 1B [1023 254 63] 16322103 208782 [Large Drive Placeholders]
1016 1 1 1028 254 63 Actual Values
16322040 1 00 [1023 0 1] 05 [1023 254 63] 16530885 13574925 [Large Drive Placeholders]
1029 0 1 1873 254 63 Actual Values
16530885 0 00 [1023 1 1] 0B [1023 254 63] 16530948 13574862 [Large Drive Placeholders]
1029 1 1 1873 254 63 Actual Values
==================================================================================
Disk 0: 19069.3 Megabytes
============================= Partition Information ==============================
Volume Partition Partition Start Total
Letter:Label Type Status Size MB Sector # Sector Sectors
------------- --------------- -------- -------- ---------- - ---------- ----------
C: FAT32 Pri,Boot 2549.3 0 0 63 5221062
ExtendedX Pri 12150.7 0 1 5221125 24884685
EPBR Log 5420.4 None - 5221125 11100915
D: FAT32 Log 5420.3 5221125 0 5221188 11100852
EPBR Log 102.0 5221125 1 16322040 208845
Hidden FAT32 Log 101.9 16322040 0 16322103 208782
EPBR Log 6628.4 16322040 1 16530885 13574925
E: FAT32 Log 6628.4 16530885 0 16530948 13574862
Unallocated Pri 4369.2 None - 30105810 8948205
========================================================================
Boot Sector for drive C: Drive 1, Starting Sector: 63, Type: FAT32
========================================================================
1. Jump: EB 58 90
2. OEM Name: MSWIN4.1
3. Bytes Per Sector: 512
4. Sectors Per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 32
6. Number of FAT's: 2
7. Reserved: 0x0000
8. Reserved: 0x0000
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors Per FAT: 0
11. Sectors Per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Big Total Sectors: 5221062 (0x4FAAC6)
15. Big Sectors Per FAT: 5090
16. Extended Flags: 0x0000
17. FS Version: 0
18. First Cluster of Root: 22300 (0x571C)
19. FS Info Sector: 1
20. Backup Boot Sector: 6
21. Reserved: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
22. Drive ID: 0x80
23. Reserved for NT: 0x00
24. Extended Boot Sig: 0x29
25. Serial Number: 0x3FAE7E73
26. Volume Name:
27. File System Type: FAT32
28. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
========================================================================
Boot Sector for drive D: Drive 1, Starting Sector: 5221188, Type: FAT32
========================================================================
1. Jump: EB 58 90
2. OEM Name: MSWIN4.1
3. Bytes Per Sector: 512
4. Sectors Per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 38
6. Number of FAT's: 2
7. Reserved: 0x0000
8. Reserved: 0x0000
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors Per FAT: 0
11. Sectors Per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Big Total Sectors: 11100852 (0xA962B4)
15. Big Sectors Per FAT: 10821
16. Extended Flags: 0x0000
17. FS Version: 0
18. First Cluster of Root: 2 (0x2)
19. FS Info Sector: 1
20. Backup Boot Sector: 6
21. Reserved: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
22. Drive ID: 0x80
23. Reserved for NT: 0x00
24. Extended Boot Sig: 0x29
25. Serial Number: 0x3FBCDB09
26. Volume Name:
27. File System Type: FAT32
28. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
========================================================================
Boot Sector for drive *: Drive 1, Starting Sector: 16322103, Type: FAT32
========================================================================
1. Jump: EB 58 90
2. OEM Name: MSWIN4.1
3. Bytes Per Sector: 512
4. Sectors Per Cluster: 1
5. Reserved Sectors: 32
6. Number of FAT's: 2
7. Reserved: 0x0000
8. Reserved: 0x0000
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors Per FAT: 0
11. Sectors Per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 16322103 (0xF90E37)
14. Big Total Sectors: 208782 (0x32F8E)
15. Big Sectors Per FAT: 1607
16. Extended Flags: 0x0000
17. FS Version: 0
18. First Cluster of Root: 6428 (0x191C)
19. FS Info Sector: 1
20. Backup Boot Sector: 6
21. Reserved: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
22. Drive ID: 0x80
23. Reserved for NT: 0x00
24. Extended Boot Sig: 0x29
25. Serial Number: 0x7F79B626
26. Volume Name:
27. File System Type: FAT32
28. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
========================================================================
Boot Sector for drive E: Drive 1, Starting Sector: 16530948, Type: FAT32
========================================================================
1. Jump: EB 58 90
2. OEM Name: MSWIN4.1
3. Bytes Per Sector: 512
4. Sectors Per Cluster: 16
5. Reserved Sectors: 32
6. Number of FAT's: 2
7. Reserved: 0x0000
8. Reserved: 0x0000
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors Per FAT: 0
11. Sectors Per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 16530948 (0xFC3E04)
14. Big Total Sectors: 13574862 (0xCF22CE)
15. Big Sectors Per FAT: 6628
16. Extended Flags: 0x0000
17. FS Version: 0
18. First Cluster of Root: 547 (0x223)
19. FS Info Sector: 1
20. Backup Boot Sector: 6
21. Reserved: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
22. Drive ID: 0x80
23. Reserved for NT: 0x00
24. Extended Boot Sig: 0x29
25. Serial Number: 0x3FBCEBEB
26. Volume Name:
27. File System Type: FAT32
28. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
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