[techtalk] Partition table editting

[Lothan]

> From: techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org
> [mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org]On Behalf Of Jeramia Ory
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:07 PM
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: [techtalk] Partition table editting
>
>
>     Anyone on the list have any experience fixing partition tables with
> fdisk?  I'm getting the impression from deja.com that it is doable, though
> tricky.  I installed the Mandrake 7.1beta (for those wondering - don't
> bother yet, the Xservers are still 3.3.6, not 4.0 as advertised, very odd)
> last night on my machine which already had Win2k on it, and now the
> partition table is screwed up, Partition Magic won't touch it.  Sigh.
> Strange thing is I can mount and read both NTFS partitions in Linux, but
> they won't boot, get an "error loading operating system."  Any
> pointers/howto's appreciated.  Maybe it's a sign I should be working in
> Linux more, as it boots fine...

I don't think you'll have much success with fdisk if Partition Magic won't
touch the partition table. I have Partition Magic but I rarely use it due to
its inability to actually do anything really useful (like setting up
non-DOS/Windows partitions or recovering damaged partition tables).
Unfortunately, fdisk is even less capable of handling non-DOS partitions. My
tool of choice is Norton's Disk Editor. While it's less than a perfect
solution (it doesn't know the type bytes for Linux partitions, for example),
it does let you fiddle with the partition table at the byte level. In fact,
it's what I used to set up my Linux partitions.