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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2006-10-06 11:38:38
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On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I tried to modify the table with windows (deleting a partition that is > not used), so the table should be fine with windows... very strange. No. Windows respects the existing geometry in the partition table but Linux tools don't. That's the problem. Windows won't fix it (if the geometry was broken then it leaves broken, if it was good then it leaves good), only Linux tools can fix it. This also explains why a full Windows reintall won't work on a broken partition table. Linux tools should behave exactly they same as the Windows fdisk, and change the geometry only if it's explicitely asked. But they think they know better which is not true as it's experienced regularly. Maybe this fixes your problem: sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H240 /dev/hda The head value could be 255 or something else, it depends on your BIOS, BIOS disk access mode settings and your hardware. The fix must be really extremely simple, just writing a few bytes to the rigth places. If you can't get further I suggest save a working and a non-working partition table and compare them byte-by-byte. The partition table format is very simple, it's only 64 bytes but you won't need to check more than a few. Szaka |
