[Sheflug] Re: Multiboot Question

["Netsonic" <netsonic [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well its seems I've solved this myself, after a little snooping around.

I had a look at the problem disk using 3 different partition tools I have,
plus fdisk.

Each one of them reported the NTFS partition and the Reiser partition in
different locations within the partition table. (One even said they were in
slots 3 and 4).

It seems that there was some form of corruption in the partition table and
they were all reading it differently.

In fact, having done an fdisk /mbr on the disk and then removing all of the
partitions with the first tool, I loaded up the next one and they still
showed up. Likewise for the third one.

So having deleted the two partitions with 3 different tools, and finally
getting a 'No partiitons defined' message in fdisk (never thought I'd be
glad to see that!) I've ran a low level formatter on the start of the disk,
and then recreated them.

What a weird experience though!

At least its a chance to run my setups with a clean slate anyway.

Steve.

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