Re: busted Partition Table - How to Fix?
Hi,
in DOS you can restore the MBR with
fdisk /mbr
that will install the standard MBR for M$.
I do not know how M$-fdisk behaves when having more than one hd in the
computer, so boot with a win98 bootfloppy with only one hd installed, run
fdisk /mbr and see if you are able to do something.
To rewrite your partition table, you can use any fdisk (DOS or Linux,
AFAIK) and rewrite the partition table. Maybe scandisk will help too.
Succes,
Sebastiaan
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Greg Strockbine wrote:
> Is there any way to fix a busted partition table?
>
> I have Linux installed on the primary master drive, /dev/hda.
> I have a seconday IDE drive, /dev/hdc, a 40 gig Maxtor, containing
> data.
> The partitions on /dev/hdc are in FAT32 format. There is
> also some raw space on the drive.
>
> I thought I would do some partiton creation and resizing on
> /dev/hdc using partition magic, but it complained that the
> partition table was busted, something about start and end.
>
> I tried GNU parted and it gave me this when I did a "print" cmd:
> Error: Invalid partition table on /dev/hdc - wrong signature 1
>
> How do I fix this?
>
> What surprises me is that I am able to mount all the partitions
> on /dev/hdc and access all the files there.
>
> - greg strockbine
>
>
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