On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >Although lilo can cope with the 8.2, 9.0 and win4lin stanzas, it can no > > longer operate the windows stanza. In an effort to find out whether > > windows is banjoed or the mbr, I used a Partition Magic rescue disk to > > boot from. This is the message I got: > > > >Partition Magic has detected an error 116 on the partition starting at > > sector 25912845 on disk 2. > > Look in the help file of PM , top righthand corner of main window, in there > somewhere at the end as I recall is a error log message file section, where > you can look up the definition of this error log 116.
I'll do that - but probably not until I get back next weekend. > > >The starting LBA value is 25912845 and the CHS value is 16450559. > >The LBA and CHS values must be equal > >Partition Magic has verified that the LBA value is correct and can fix the > > CHS value > >Would you like Partition Magic to fix this error? > > In my experience this arrises out of using more than one partition tool, > and is > mainly caused by the industry not having uniform standards.It's rather like > sending two sets of surveyors to measure the areas of a football pitch > one armed with a meter rule the other with a yard stick, they both will > be correct but they will not have the same numbers. On the whole you > can safely ignore this error message it will always go on saying it because > it doesn't like the way the other partition tool has done it's > work.Sometimes > OS's will baulk at formatting these various scrambled up partition tables, > and that is why I do all my partitioning on any harddrive with just > one partition tool. It doesn't matter which formatting tool you use, > but partition Magic has a very good check for bad areas and will mark > them for > you so that data is not loaded over any bad areas. Problem is I now appear to have a partition table that can't be read properly either by Windows, PM, or Linux > > >Although I know what LBA is, I don't know what CHS is. My hard drives are > >labelled by linux hde, hdf and hdg. Dolphin is on hdf, which I take to be > >disk 2. Should I allow PM to do this, or is it being confused by the ext3 > >partitions? > > > >I would feel a whole lot safer if I could get my windows installation > > going again. It is increasingly rare for me to need it, but it covers > > emergency use. > > > >Anne > > Just to prove me wrong I guess you will now tell me you didn't use more > than one partition tool. > John Originally the drive was partitioned by PM, but of course Mandrake then reformatted some of the partitions. So far as I'm aware no moving or re-sizing was done. I'm getting a sinking feeling about all of this. If I let PM do its work it may recover windows, but I'm afraid of it banjoing my linux installations. Anne
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