11 Jan 2005, 00:11, BEN RITCHEY (1:393/68), wrote to ALL:

Hi BEN.

 BR> I have a WD 80GB IDE (strapped for 32G) that "was" working, but 
 BR> something zapped the Partition Table so linux fdisk and cfdisk refuse 
 BR> to edit same. It sees the size or ending cylinders of extended is 
 BR> smaller than most of the partitions themselves (just the total itself 
 BR> is wrong). I cannot mod the partitions with anything else, though 
 BR> everything else (DOS/Wins/NDD/Ranish, etc.) will "read" it and say 
 BR> nothing is wrong. Any ideas? anything at all ?

 BR> I can access all data R/W which is good but cannot 
 BR> add/change/delete
 BR> partitions. :(

Do you have any software that can read the partition table?  MS always
leaves scraps of the table all over the drive.  With the right software,
you can HEX search for the "55AA" and find many without too much
problem.  usually within the first 1000 sectors or so.  Write down the
existing  values so you can always get back to where you started, then
Modify the table with the values that you find in other locations.  One
will surely be the correct one. 


     Good luck...  M.

--- Msged/386 TE 06 (pre)