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Bad parition table Plz help

Asked by: redgoalsku

Hi,

I have an 80gb hard drive which i have been using to test my partitioning ability! and i have to report i am not very good judging at what i have managed to do

at the moment when i fdisk and display partition info there is nothing there and the system stalls at this screen.

i mounted the drive to another win2k machine and this is the drive info reported by partition magic...

as you can see not looking very nice, if some kind soul could take a look at the info i have provided and tell me what to do next i would be most grateful, at this stage any data on the drive is not my first priority if it can be salvaged then great, but at the moment i just want to install win2k on 1 partition on the hard drive.


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Disk Geometry Information for Disk 2:    8191 Cylinders,  128 Heads,  63 Sectors/Track
System              PartSect  # Boot BCyl Head Sect  FS    ECyl Head Sect    StartSect     NumSects
..................................................................................................
                           0  0  63   368  111   45  07     371  101   51  218,129,5091,701,990,410
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
  Actual values are:
        0  0  63  27049  101   11  07  238110   13   60 2181295091701990410
Warning: Partition boot flag expected to be 0x00 or 0x80,
  not 0x63. This should not be a problem.
Error #107: Partition begins after end of disk.
  ucBeginCylinder (27049) must be less than 8191.
Error #105: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
  ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 101.
Error #106: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
  ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 11.
Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
  ucEndCylinder (238110) must be less than 8191.
Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
  ucEndHead expected to be 127, not 13.
Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
  ucEndSector expected to be 63, not 60.
                           0  1  73    67  115   32  74     299  114   44  729,050,177  543,974,724
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
  Actual values are:

        0  1  73  90408    1    3  74  157865   24   29 729050177 543974724
Warning: Partition boot flag expected to be 0x00 or 0x80,
  not 0x73. This should not be a problem.
Error #107: Partition begins after end of disk.
  ucBeginCylinder (90408) must be less than 8191.
Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
  ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 3.
Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
  ucEndCylinder (157865) must be less than 8191.
Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
  ucEndHead expected to be 127, not 24.
Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
  ucEndSector expected to be 63, not 29.
                           0  2  74   114  111   32  65     353  115   52  168,653,938            0
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
  Actual values are:
        0  2  74  20914   54   41  65  20914   54   40 168653938         0
Warning: Partition boot flag expected to be 0x00 or 0x80,
  not 0x74. This should not be a problem.
Error #107: Partition begins after end of disk.
  ucBeginCylinder (20914) must be less than 8191.
Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
  ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 54.
Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
  ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 41.
Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
  ucEndCylinder (20914) must be less than 8191.
Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
  ucEndHead expected to be 127, not 54.
Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
  ucEndSector expected to be 63, not 40.
Info: This partition unexpectedly contains no sectors.

..................................................................................................
Partition Information for Disk 2:    32,252.1 Megabytes
Volume         PartType    Status    Size MB    PartSect  #   StartSect  TotalSects
..................................................................................................
               Unallocated Pri      32,252.0        None --          63  66,052,161
               Unallocated Pri      50,098.5        None --  66,052,224 102,601,714
               NetWare     Pri,Boot      0.0           0  2 168,653,938           0
               Unallocated Pri      24,152.6        None -- 168,658,560  49,464,576
               QNX, UN*X   Pri,Boot 831,050.0           0  0 218,129,5091,701,990,410
Info: MBR Partition Table not in sequential order.
               Type 74     Pri,Boot 265,612.7           0  1 729,050,177 543,974,724
Error #113: Primary partition starting at 729050177 overlaps previous partition.

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