partition headaches
John Van Ostrand
john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Jul 27 14:01:39 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 09:35 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM
> >
> > Partition table entries are not in disk order
> After all if windows originally was the first partition, then it's boot
> loader will have something like disk(0)part(0) or something similar in
> the boot.ini, while if you moved it and put other partitions in front,
> not NTFS is technically the 3rd partition on the disk, and should have
> boot.ini changed to disk(0)part(2). Best advice is to NEVER move the
> first windows partition, it should always be the first partition on the
> boot drive if you want windows to work reliably. You can work around
> it, but it is generally more fragile.
You should be able to re-write the partitions in correct order using
fdisk. It would involve the scary task of deleting the partitions and
re-adding them with the same start, end, and type values. I've done this
in presentations to demystify partition tables.
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