how not to initialize HD
Paul Cartwright
ale at pcartwright.com
Sun Aug 1 00:49:07 UTC 2010
On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote:
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 4462 35840983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3 4718 12162 59793409 5 Extended
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda5 4718 5961 9989120 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 5962 8094 17133291 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 11919 12162 1951744 82 Linux swap /
> Solaris /dev/sda8 8095 11918 30716248+ c W95 FAT32
> (LBA)
>
> To answer your question - do not attempt to delete sda3 (extended
> partition), fdisk would remove everyting that is included in it (sda3 thru
> sda8).
>
> I see that the removal of sda2 did not solve our problems; it even
> complains
>
> about partition 2, which does not exist now:
> > # cfdisk -Ps
> > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial
> > cylinder
>
> We will try to solve the second thing that may be the problem, that is
> the out-of-order sda7 and sda8 within sda3 extended partition.
>
> Before doing that please save your sda8 (W95 FAT32) data somewhere (Win XP,
> CD-RW, CD-R, external disk, ...). It will be destroyed later on.
>
> Let me know when you have done it so we can go ahead with remaining stuff.
already deleted sda8..
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