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In article <4n869r$69q@reuters2.mitre.org>
           jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org "Joe Morris" writes:

| Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk> writes:
|
| >Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 1242 cylinders
| >Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
|
| >   Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
| >/dev/hda1   *       1       1     520  524128+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
| >Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
| >     phys=(259, 63, 63) should be (259, 31, 63)
| >/dev/hda2         261     261    1023  769104    5  Extended
| >/dev/hda5   ?  485753  486691 1405931926593808   6c  Unknown
|
| >Presumably the partition table became corrupted at some point.
| >(AFAICR, the cylinder boundary warning appeared before)
|
| (Warning: I don't run linux, so I may be misinterpreting the messages
| you quote here...)
|
| If the error message has been appearing and you've been ignoring it,
| I would suspect that the extents of hda1 and hda2 are overlapping.  If
| this has happened, at some point your system will write to what it
| thinks are sectors it owns at the far end of the disk, but in reality
| those sectors are part of the partition table chain, plus the FAT,
| boot sector, and root directory of the next partition plus some amount
| of the data storage space for that partition.
|
| Obviously there are other possible causes for your situation but this
| is consistent with what you've posted.
|
| Look at the master partition table, the hd1a boot sector, and the FAT
| in hd1a to determine if all allocation data in them are consistent.  I
| suspect that it won't be.
|
| Depending on how much has been overwritten, how much you know about
| the contents of the D: disk, and how contiguous the files there are (were)
| you may or may not be able to recover the data there.

   I've never used it but comp.msdos.annouce has just told us about

   simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/data_rec.zip  89567 bytes

   which claims to be able fix anything that can be fixed.

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