[ILUG] (Damaged?) partition table

[Paul Biggar]

Folks,

I recently installed windows (XP Home and x64 XP Pro) on sda2 and sda5
respectively. During this time, things crashed quite a bit. I saw the
CHKDSK screen a lot, and I've had to reset while the disk light is on.

After this, my shared drive, sda9, which is FAT32, wouldnt mount or
pass the fsck. It works fine in windows, but I've no problem
formatting this to get it working in Linux. However, sfdisk outputs
worrying things (see below). Google has not been my friend in
resolving them, however, I saw advice that "sfdisk -d /dev/hda |
sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda" might fix it, though am a bit
scared of losing everything to try it.

Here my disk's partition table. Any help appreciated, especially on
whether this is even important (linux appears to be working fine),
what it means (apart from the obvious), and how to fix it.

Thanks
Paul


leonidas root # sfdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 24321 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *      0+   5221    5222-  41945683+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2       5222   10201    4980   40001850   83  Linux
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,0,1)
/dev/sda3      10202   24320   14119  113410867+   5  Extended
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,0,1)
/dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sda5      10202+  12691    2490-  20000893+   7  HPFS/NTFS
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
/dev/sda6      12692+  15181    2490-  20000893+  83  Linux
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
/dev/sda7      15182+  17671    2490-  20000893+  83  Linux
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
/dev/sda8      17672+  17679       8-     64228+  83  Linux
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
/dev/sda9      17680+  24196    6517-  52347771    b  W95 FAT32
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
/dev/sda10     24197+  24320     124-    995998+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)




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Paul Biggar
paul.biggar at gmail.com