Richard Fish wrote:
Martins Steinbergs wrote:
log to linux, erase partition table, get those heads corect, write new
partition table --> reboot, LBA is on and win is booting. none of
dos/win apps worked for me to fix partition table.
i asume LBA is needed only for win itself, not vfat or ntfs
partitions, therefore files are accesible from linux
martins
Um, if you do this, you will more than likely destroy the filesystems as
well, because the new partitions will not line up exactly with the old
ones.
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?
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.
Good "fdisk -l" output:
Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Bad "fdisk -l" output:
Disk /dev/sda: 137.4 GB, 137438952960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16709 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Zac
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