On 27 Mar 2008 13:22:48 -0400,
(E-Mail Removed) (Al Dykes) put finger
to keyboard and composed:
>I have a laptop with a 20GB disk. I want to consolidate partitions
>with PM8 but I get error 111 when I boot from the CD. It asks if I
>want to fix the problem and I pick "yes" it doesn't complain but
>doesn't do anything, either. When I reboot I ge the same error.
>
>After picking "yes" and get into the main PM screen, I see one disk
>and partition with "BAD" in one of the info fields. I don't see ant
>partitions and can't perform any tasks.
>
>
>PM80 is a little dusty. Is there a new software that might deal with
>this for me?
>
>Thanks
Based on what I've seen in the PM8 User Guide, I would not have
allowed PM8 to write to your disc.
Before you do anything else, I would make a copy of your MBR and
partition table, and also of track 0. I use MBRtool for this purpose.
See
http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/mbrtool.htm
I would then analyse the partition table entries by hand. It could be
that your laptop's security is hiding the real partition table from
PM8 (somewhere on track 0 ???), in which case the partition table at
physical sector 0 may be a dummy.
Here appear to be the relevant excerpts from the PM8 User Guide.
===================================================================
EN PartitionMagic 8.05 user guide:
http://www.amsoft.cz/produkty/Symant...uide_npm_8.pdf
===================================================================
#105 Partition starts on wrong boundary
The hard-disk partition table contains erroneous values.
PartitionMagic expects partitions to begin and end on the correct
cylinder boundaries. If they do not, the disk may be partially
corrupted. In this circumstance, if PartitionMagic were to make any
modifications it might cause the loss of data. Therefore,
PartitionMagic refuses to recognize any of the hard disk’s partitions.
===================================================================
#111 Logical partition starts outside of Extended
An extended partition boot record (EPBR) is a sector on the hard disk
that contains a partition table. The EPBR partition table is special
because it generally only has two valid entries: one for the logical
partition and one that is a pointer to the next EPBR. The standard is
for the logical partition's entry to be the first entry in the table
and the second entry is the pointer to the next EPBR. The third and
fourth entries are not used. For some utilities, such as IBM's Boot
Manager, the order of these entries is important because the utility
expects the first entry to be the logical and the second entry to be
the pointer to the next EPBR. If PartitionMagic detects that the EPBR
entries are out of order, you will be prompted to fix the error. If
you choose to fix the error, PartitionMagic will reorder the EPBR
entries for you automatically.
===================================================================
- Franc Zabkar
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