Re: Parted 1.2.13

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Jeffrey!

> Parted still gives me the specter: "Fatal:Bad Fat: cluster 5894146
> outside filesystem in chain for \SAVE2DSK.BIN," when I try to
> resize /dev/hda1. I think my hard drive is haunted. :-o

Well, I was only guessing what the problem was, anyway!
Anyway, it "prodded" me into fixing another problem, so THAT's
fixed now :-)

So, back to diagnosing your problem.  Can you run:

        C:\> chkdsk

And send all the numbers to me?  Also, can you send the BIOS
geometry (go into your BIOS, usually by hitting DEL when you
turn your computer on).  The BIOS geometry is a triple of numbers,
called "Cylinders, Sectors, Heads".  My hard disk's geometry is
768/255/63.

Then, I'll do some calculations (professor's hat on ;-), and see
if there's a problem there...

Another thing I'd like is:
(1) get a Parted boot disk (you're using this already) and another
DOS formatted disk
(2) boot off the Parted boot disk
(3) remove the Parted boot disk, and insert the DOS formatted
disk.
(4) when it boots up, type:

        # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
        # dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/start.img
        # umount /mnt

(5) reboot, whatever
(6) somehow get the start.img file from the floppy disk to me.
Email is a bad idea.  Could you put it on your web site, or
something?

BTW: those commands copy the first bit of your partition
(if=in-file) to START.IMG on your floppy disk (of=out-file).

I really want to hunt down what this problem is!

Thanks!
Andrew Clausen