From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 21 2:35:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zephyr.cs.vu.nl (zephyr.cs.vu.nl [192.31.231.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E0214BCD for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 02:35:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michiel@cs.vu.nl) Received: from flits.cs.vu.nl by zephyr.cs.vu.nl with esmtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #57) id m10kliS-0000WHC; Fri, 21 May 99 11:35 +0200 Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:35:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Michiel Meijers To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fdisk <-> pqmagic Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Does someone know if fdisk (FreeBSD, not DOS) writes other partitioning info than PQMagic on the harddisk ? Because when I wrote the partitioning table with PQMagic, fdisk couldn't determine what the types where of my partitions (FAT32 and NTFS). So, I wrote the partitioning info with fdisk (ok, stupid) and now PQMagic doesn't understand my partitioning info. Is there any chance that I can get my data back ? (Of course I didn't backup.) I mean to get the partitioning info right again ? This problem came because I had another problem. And this has to be fixed anyway. I have a Maxtor 4320 8,4GB drive. The problem is that when I boot my computer says it has 1027 cylinders. That's more than MS-DOS can handle (I want to install NT 4.0 Workstation, but the MS-DOS Setup won't install it on a harddisk >1024 cyls). The weirdest thing happened when I also installed the harddisk of my roommate: It's the same harddisk, the Maxtor 4320 8,4GB, BUT when I ask the settings at booting time, the harddisk of my roommate tells my it has 1024 cyl ! How's this possible ? And can I also get my harddisk to tell everyone it has only 1024 cyl instead of 1027 ? I hope you can help me, because I've looked everywhere, but no one seems to know. Please email me here: michiel@cs.vu.nl Many, many thanks, Michiel Meijers --- michiel@cs.vu.nl --- http://www.cs.vu.nl/~michiel/| student AI '94 -- VU Amsterdam --------------------------------------| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message