Dear all, I recently installed Mandrake 7.0 in a dual-boot setup with Windows. All worked fine, but my MS-DOS filesystem seeems to be messed up. File names have been replaced with nonsense, and the partition table is in a mess. cfdisk gives: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends before sector 0 fdisk -l /dev/hda1 gives: ------------------ Disk /dev/hda1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1p1 ? 120513 235786 925929529+ 68 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(288, 101, 46) should be (288, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 79 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(0, 13, 10) should be (0, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(324, 77, 19) should be (324, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p4 ? 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(335, 78, 2) should be (335, 254, 63) ------------------ I assume (hope) that my partition table is corrupt, rather than my entire msdos system! I have a rescue disk to get into windows; if I 'format /mbr' from there, can I later reformat to get into linux or will i have to reinstall? Alternatively, can I use fdisk to reformat without destroying my windows partition? all help gratefully received Dave davidhjatmaildotcom ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
