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Richard Fish wrote: |
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> Martins Steinbergs wrote: |
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>> log to linux, erase partition table, get those heads corect, write new |
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>> partition table --> reboot, LBA is on and win is booting. none of |
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>> dos/win apps worked for me to fix partition table. |
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>> i asume LBA is needed only for win itself, not vfat or ntfs |
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>> partitions, therefore files are accesible from linux |
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>> martins |
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> Um, if you do this, you will more than likely destroy the filesystems as |
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> well, because the new partitions will not line up exactly with the old |
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> ones. |
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In most cases, with such a misalignment, wouldn't the filesystem driver see that the superblock (or whatever signature it uses) is misplaced and refuse to mount? |
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I have destroyed an ext3 partition due to improper geometry settings for an external usb hard drive. Something about a computer I plugged it into (bad bios?) caused this. From the Large Disk HOWTO I learned to manually specify the C,H,S as a kernel parameter sda=24321,255,63 in order to correct the problem. |
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Good "fdisk -l" output: |
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Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes |
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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Bad "fdisk -l" output: |
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Disk /dev/sda: 137.4 GB, 137438952960 bytes |
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16709 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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Zac |
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