[NTLUG:Discuss] OT-Partition tools

Robert Citek rwcitek at alum.calberkeley.org
Mon Nov 17 02:33:29 CST 2003


On Saturday, November 15, 2003, at 11:34  AM, David Ross wrote:
> I seem to have ruined my partition table and need to know if there is a
> program similar to Partition Magic (something free or cheaper then PM)
> that can rescue my HD.The FAT32 section is still ok,but the other 20 
> gigs
> are unaccessible(?). FDISK won't delete the extended partition because 
> of
> logical drives,but it won't delete the logical drives because it says 
> they
> are not defined.

So, you want to simply remove the existing logical and extended 
partitions, but keep the fat32 (I assume the fat32 is on a primary 
partition), correct?  If so, boot with Knoppix, a linux distro on CD:
   http://www.knoppix.net
at the boot prompt type:
   knoppix-txt 2

This will boot Knoppix into runlevel 2 in text-mode, which is much 
faster than loading the whole X GUI stuff, and drops you directly into 
a root shell.  You can then type 'fdisk /dev/hda' or whatever your 
drive is to repartition.  When you've finished repartitioning, type 
'exit', remove the CD, and you should be good to go.

Let us know how it goes.

Regards,
- Robert




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