How about Power Quest Partition Magic? Get the DOS based Distro, boot your PC from DOS. Run PQMagic. It has a gui for editing partition tables.
-Mike On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 18:18, Holden Hao wrote: > Hello All. > > I upgraded my home computer hardware and I removed the Dynamic Drive Overlay (by >Disk Manager 956a) that was installed on my hard drive to make my old PC recognize >the large drive. When I did this the old partition table vanished and I could not >recreate it even if I noted the start and end cylinder of my old partition table. >From what I understand Disk Manager created an offset of 63 sectors on my drive so >that it can install and protect itself (against fdisk /mbr). I believe that even if >I rebuilt the former partition table, the 63-sector offset prevents me from accessing >the correct partitions. The data in my old drive is not really important but I am >very much curious if there is a fix for it. Is there a partition tool that allows you >to edit the partition table down to its sectors? If there is such, will correcting >this offset on the partition table allow me to recover data or will the inodes also >need to have the 63 sector offset also? Will reinstalling a new DD O > fix this problem? The old Disk Manager program though does not allow you to >install DDO without formatting the hard drive. > > Hoping to learn more. > > Holden > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
