Re: how not to initialize HD

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On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote:
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            5962        8094    17133291   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7           11919       12162     1951744   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris /dev/sda8            8095       11918    30716248+   c  W95 FAT32
> (LBA)
>
> To answer your question - do not attempt to delete sda3 (extended
> partition), fdisk would remove everyting that is included in it (sda3 thru
> sda8).
>
> I see that the removal of sda2 did not solve our problems; it even
> complains
>
> about partition 2, which does not exist now:
> > # cfdisk -Ps
> > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial
> > cylinder
>
> We will try to solve the second thing that may be the problem, that is
> the out-of-order sda7 and sda8 within sda3 extended partition.
>
> Before doing that please save your sda8 (W95 FAT32) data somewhere (Win XP,
> CD-RW, CD-R, external disk, ...). It will be destroyed later on.
>
> Let me know when you have done it so we can go ahead with remaining stuff. 

already deleted sda8..

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