Re: Rescue disk's cfdisk reports HDD is corrupt
On Thu, 6 May 1999, BOHICA wrote:
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: Problem:
: On running install.bat from DOS (512Mb FAT partition), I cannot get
: cfdisk to run successfully. The error message reports that "THE
: PARTITION IS CORRUPT!" and then offers to wipe the partition table for
: me and start over - not exactly the best choice option for me.
:
: Question:
: Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be causing the error?
: Has this been seen before and I missed the post?
cfdisk seems to have issues with empty or "weird" partition tables, and
you've got a very large IDE disk, so it's probably confused. Use fdisk
instead.
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Nathan Norman
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