Can I make continuous linux partitions pretend to be something, to windows app

[Kevin Zhao]

Hi,  Sylvain and Alan,

> I may be out of line here, but why do you need a recovery
> program if everything runs fine? And I don't see why partition
> magic is involved in an OEM recovery system.

Here by everything runs fine I mean that both system is OK. But
windows partition has collected a lot of garbage as it usually do and
it is now not very OK.

I also cannot feel confused why thinkpad needs powerquest's product to
do recovery. But IIRC, they have been doing so for a while. I should
say I hate this, very much.

And to Alan,
> What kind of errors does partition magic return, and what kind > of partitions do you have according to  fdisk?

Partition Magic shows error 116 and says somethign like "the starting
LBA value is 30754475 and the CHS value is 15483824. The LBA and CHS
values must be equal ..." After this error it is Error 117,
"Partition's drive letter cannot be identified". Even if I let it to
fix error 116. It still has erro 117 and cannot initialize. Meanwhile,
Linux fdisk will complain error for overlapping, etc.

So I leave the so called error 116 and 117 there.

I am going to paste my fdisk result here after I switch to ubuntu.

Kevin

On 8/18/06, Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 12:55 +0800, Kevin Zhao wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having problem with some OEM recovery program which find errors
> > in my partitions and refuse to work. I think there is not a big deal
> > as both xp and ubuntu work fine. But things like "partition magic" or
> > "powerquest" do not think so, therefore i can't get recovery.
>
> What kind of errors does partition magic return, and what kind of
> partitions do you have according to  fdisk?
>
> alan
>
>
>
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