Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:37:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <jeffrey_m._metcalf@ccmail.bms.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, metcalf@imagine.com, joseph_m._o'connor@ccgate1.bms.com Subject: Re: Repair boot sector of IDE hard drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960807223613.216W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9607078394.AA839454178@ccgate0.bms.com>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > In preparing an installation of FreeBSD 2.1, a collegue of mine and I > used DOS fdisk to partition an IDE hard drive and through one process > or another, managed to corrupt the boot sector. We do not have a > backup of the boot sector and would like to know if there is a way > to repair it. We know the geometry of the hard drive. It is a > 1272MB hard drive with a geometry of 2466 cyls, 16 heads, and > 63 sectors. Currently, DOS fdisk reports that the maximum size > of the hard drive available for a primary DOS partition is > 504MB, when this is clearly not the case. We want to correct the > boot sector so that DOS fdisk will recognize the 1272MB as the > maximum available size for a primary DOS partition. You need to get a sector translator, which is available from your disk manufacturer or local computer shop. A product that does this is OnTrack's "Disk Manager". In the future, do _NOT_ install the boot manager if you have such a translator installed (which you probably did and erased when you installed the boot manager). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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