John Hendrickx wrote:
[snip]
> sfdisk reported that the problem was between hda6 and hda9. I used
> fdisk to remove the Linux partions and now I'm e-mailing from Windows
> again :-)
>
> The problem seems to be that diskdrake on Linux-Mandrake 7.0 doesn't
> understand large disks. It wrote the faulty partitions at any rate.
> Oh, well, at least I got my Windows partition back. Thanks for the
> help.
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 467 3751146 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 468 1867 11245500 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 468 469 16033+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 935 1401 3751146 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda7 1402 1867 3743113+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda8 470 752 2273166 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 753 784 257008+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda10 785 935 1212876 83 Linux
John....no matter what sfdisk said, the only overlap showing on
the fdisk output of the hda partition table is the sharing of
cylinder 935 by hda6 and hda10. Look at it above:
Alan
