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

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

It's a bit dangerous, but you MIGHT use NDD to patch the MBT to the 
correct values.

With a bit of luck, I did once recover a munged partition table that 
way - and got all my data back.

It helps if you can find an identical drive and copy the table from 
that...



Terry V.
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