Invalid Partition Table

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Scott

I am in the process of formating my harddrive to get rid
of some problems I have been having. I had the drive
partitioned and was running Win2K and Linux on it. I used
fdisk to get rid of all the partitions and used the
fdisk /mbr command to set the MBR to windows and set up a
new partition for the OS. I let the Win2K setup format
the partition and load the required files to continue with
loading the OS. Once it had to reboot I get an error that
states that it is an "invalid partition table". How do I
get passed this? I tried running the fdisk /mbr command
again to no avail.

TIA

Scott Thompson
 
Scott,

This issue occurs because of one of the following reasons:

-The boot indicator in the MBR has a value other than "80h" or "00h"
-More than one boot indicator indicates an active partition (80h)

Boot Indicators are located at the following offsets in the MBR:

Partition1: 0x1BE
Partition2: 0x1CE
Partition3: 0x1DE
Partition4: 0x1EE

Use the fdisk.exe utility to verify that only one partition is marked
active.

Jeff Patterson
Microsoft Support
 
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