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| Thread ID: 65246 | 2006-01-12 00:48:00 | 250gig hard drive appears as 450gig | Greven (91) | Press F1 |
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| 420421 | 2006-01-12 05:52:00 | hmm. Linux won't even boot up - complains about a bad superblock. looks like my partition table is screwed. I'm moving everything off my 250gig drive (and deleting a lot of stuff too :() because whatever I have to do to fix it will probably involve losing everything that is on the drive. Thankfully I never did get round to moving windows to my SATA drive, but my boot loader is on the SATA drive. I guess I'll just have to reinstall linux as soon as it is fixed to get the boot loader back. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 420422 | 2006-01-12 06:05:00 | I had a suspicion that it might be a corrupt partition table ...but a "bad superblock" means that the boot process has found a partition. It just doesn't like it. ;) Have a look with a live CD Linux. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 420423 | 2006-01-18 07:39:00 | I have fixed it. I used testdisk to wipe the partition table & now it is back to 250gig | Greven (91) | ||
| 420424 | 2006-01-18 12:36:00 | Well done mate. But I woulda been happy to live with 450 gigs! :thumbs: | Greg (193) | ||
| 420425 | 2006-01-18 21:32:00 | I would have been too if I could actually use the full 450gigs. Half of the space didn't map to physical space on the drive & some of the partitions were overlapping. The result of that was a lot of unreadable data. I'm glad the drive is fine - I didn't really want to go out in the kind of weather we've been having any more than I have to. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 420426 | 2006-01-18 22:55:00 | But... the weather's been fantastic! Go Auckland! :p | Greg (193) | ||
| 420427 | 2006-01-18 23:26:00 | Partition information is not "owned" by operating systems . It's external . . What happened to the limit of four primary partitions? Surely some of those are logical partitions inside extended partitions? All of them are shown as being of "Basic" type . What does a Linux partioning utility say about that disk? cfdisk -l /dev/hda > thatdisk . data QTParted is also a good little program similar to Partition Magic for Linux . |
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