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Skriven 2008-09-30 00:26:12 av James Bradley (1:342/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Jeff Guerdat
Ärende: Gentoo Partition Reco
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09-28-08 14:49: Jeff Guerdat to James Bradley, "Re: Gentoo Partition Reco"

 > "mft" still sucks on the scrubbed drive.
 >
 > repair_MFT
 >
 > file, I need to run "chkdsk" as I am lacking "ntfslib". What bugged my eyes
 > out, was the last time I ran "lilo", (...Just run it, without mentioning the
 > drive in the config.) it asked for permission to change the "Volume ID on
 > /dev/hdb".
 >
 > Could this be a way to resurrect the old partition, or am I flirting with
 > disaster even considering to use this? Swapping the drive out to a working
 > Windows system is something I am trying to avoid, and
 > I've only installed Wine
 > today, and I'm not sure if running the disk utility is
 > advisable with it. Can
 > anyone weigh in on a method?

 JG> So, what are you trying to do - use the NTFS partition under
 JG> Linux or reformat it?  If the former, it's easiest to plug the

Gentoo's fdisk abomination kicks butt, *then* takes names. I accidently wrote
the new partition table to a drive I was hoping to dual boot with. I since
moved the afflicted drive to slave (hd1,0 ??? Gr...ub ;-) off the first ide
channel, and decided to resurrect at least the data. If I can dual boot with
W2K on this second drive, all the better. I care not, what is on the other
partitions, and have centred my efforts to rescuing the first partition.
 
 JG> drive into a working Windows system and use "chkdsk /f" to try
 JG> to fix up any problems.  If the latter, you may want to try
 JG> downloading and using the Gparted ISO image to create a
 JG> bootable CD and access the drive to eliminate/move/whatever the
 JG> partition.

Gparted can resurrect a partition? I just recalled a moth-balled W2K machine
here, with IDE controllers. (...Been moving to discarded SCSI equipment
lately.) I should likely sway toward that route, now that testdisk has taken it
this far?

 JG> As for LILO (not sure why you're using an old boot loader that
 JG> doesn't seem to have much utility these days), it's trying to
 JG> write itself out on the second physical drive.  You'd have to
 JG> provide more info to know whether that's a good thing.

lilo comes with Slack, and usually installs itself without further
intervention. I've sorted a grub boot or two out, but I'm positive I would fail
the spot-quiz on it. (That is the direction you were heading?)

The drive was dual-booting: W2K on hda1. BSD, or another test of a Linux
distribution - I've forgotten - on the rest. Don't I just need a bootable MBR,
and call it a day?


... I wish I could remember where I parked my hard disk.
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