On 08/10/2012 07:44 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/08/10 19:02 (GMT-0500) David C. Rankin composed: [...]
The sfdisk -l information seems to point to the problem: start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1). How to repair that?
Part of what you get by buying a DFSee license is problem analysis by its author that commonly results in the return of a repair script that will fix problems found. It includes an analysis script that generates logs and such you email to support to enable such analysis. It's the only way I ever partition any HD for over a decade. It includes functionally equivalent executables for 5 different operating systems, so you can run it when necessary from a DOS CD or a live Linux CD or DVD, in addition to BartPE and Hirens. www.dfsee.com
Thanks Felix, At this point I'm really curious to learn what happened and try and fix it in the process. Worse case scenario, I nuke the drive and put another one it and go through the pain of reinstall. What I think happened, is some corrupting information got written to the first part of sda1 that is causing the partition table to see it as a separate partition. As such, it has renumbered the primary partition present sda1->sda2. Since sda1 starts on sector 29 and ends on sector 29, it looks like the answer will be along the lines of deleting sda1 and making sure sda2 ends up back as sda1. I have mounted sda2 to test and make sure the original xp partition is in tact. It appears to be: 16:13 killerz:/home/david # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /windows/c -o gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). The file system wasn't safely closed on Windows. Fixing. 16:14 killerz:/home/david # l /windows/c total 4192197 drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 8192 Aug 7 14:21 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 1 2011 .. drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 16384 Mar 5 2011 4629192f8fdea65e703a5362c88fd1 drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Oct 20 2011 Documents and Settings drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Jun 15 14:40 Fraps drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Nov 22 2011 glassfish3 drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Oct 20 2011 HammerAutosave drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Mar 1 2011 Inetpub drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 Intel drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 0 Mar 26 2011 .jagex_cache_32 drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 MSOCache drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 NVIDIA drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 16384 Jul 24 20:04 Program Files drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 RECYCLER drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Mar 1 2011 System Volume Information drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 155648 Aug 6 10:10 WINDOWS -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 AUTOEXEC.BAT -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 211 Aug 3 08:15 boot.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 CONFIG.SYS -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 2146816000 Aug 6 10:10 hiberfil.sys -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 IO.SYS -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 1 2011 MSDOS.SYS -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 47564 Mar 1 2011 NTDETECT.COM -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 250048 Mar 1 2011 ntldr -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 2145386496 Aug 6 10:10 pagefile.sys -rw-r--r-- 2 root users 77346 Aug 2 13:48 TDSSKiller.2.7.48.0_02.08.2012_13.48.30_log.txt Slowly I'm learning a bit more about repair, but that nagging 'uncertainty' of "do I really want to try X" certainly hangs heavy over my head. That's why I'm hoping some smart person on the list has done this before and can point me in the right direction :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org