Hello Chris, What a wonderful advice! It worked just the way you said: On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Chris Reeves wrote:
I was having similar(ish) problems a couple of weeks ago. In the end I found that the extended partition could be sorted with changing its type from:
5 Extended to f Win95 Extended
I don't know whether or not this is equivalent to 'large disk support' under dos fdisk, but it certainly helped me (unfortunately *after* I had trashed an oem Win98 installation). If I am correct, this should fix your truncated partitions under expert mode.
The size in expert mode stayed truncated, but it didn't matter for the rest.
Then you should be able to fix hda9 and hda10 as explained before (although I don't think you'll have to go on a delete/recreate spree now - just create two 'new' partitions with the exact cylinder sizes).
And was I happy to see my files again after a readonly mount in rescue mode! (I was careful this time, especially since I was not absolutely sure about the cylinder boundary between my swap and /home...)
Hope that helps again, Chris
It did, it did!
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