Mystery partition

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Bill Mudd

It's a long story but the short version is I got new hard drives
and copied the old ones to the new ones. I copied them one partition
at a time using Partition Magic.

The "mystery" partition is the 3rd partition on disk #2 (a new Western
Digital 60 gig.).
PM shows this partition as - FAT32 with no errors.
WinXP shows it as "Local drive" - RAW and needing to be formatted.
In DOS on this partition, the 'dir' command results in "Invalid media type".

How do I get XP & DOS to see this partition the way Partition Magic does ?
It had/has data on it.

----------------- output of "findpart 2" --------------------------
Disk: 2 Cylinders: 7297 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 57239

-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 - 0C 63 47857572 23367 0 1 1 2978 254 63 B OK
No jump 0 1 1
1 1 0B 63 47857572 23367 1 1 1 2979*254 63 OK OK
1 2 05 47857635 41479830 20253 2980# 0 1 5561*254 63 1 OK
2980 1 0B 63 41479767 20253 2980# 1 1 5561*254 63 OK OK
2980 2 05 89337465 27872775 13609 5562# 0 1 7296*254 63 1 OK
2980 - 0B 63 41479767 20253 2980 1 1 5561 254 63 B OK
5562 1 0B 63 27872712 13609 5562# 1 1 7296*254 63 R0 OK
0 - 0B 89353593 27872712 13609 5562 1 1 7296 254 63 B OK
No jump 5562 1 1

-----FAT CHS -Size Cl --Root -Good -Rep. Maybe --Bad YYMMDD DataMB
0 1 33 11683 16* 2* 8926 0 3 2754 5144
1 1 33 11680 16 2 11680 0 0 0 031231 5194
2980 1 33 10122 16 2 10122 0 0 0 030430 5596
5562 1 33 13605 8 4552 13605 0 0 0 030430 224

Partitions according to partition tables on second harddisk:

-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 2*0F 16065117210240 57231 1 0 1 7296*254 63 OK

1 1 0B 63 47857572 23367 1 1 1 2979*254 63 OK OK
1 2 05 47857635 41479830 20253 2980# 0 1 5561*254 63 OK

2980 1 0B 63 41479767 20253 2980# 1 1 5561*254 63 OK OK
2980 2 05 89337465 27872775 13609 5562# 0 1 7296*254 63 OK

5562 1 0B 63 27872712 13609 5562# 1 1 7296*254 63 R0 OK
 
Disk: 2 Cylinders: 7297 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 57239

-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 - 0C 63 47857572 23367 0 1 1 2978 254 63 B OK
No jump 0 1 1
1 1 0B 63 47857572 23367 1 1 1 2979*254 63 OK OK
1 2 05 47857635 41479830 20253 2980# 0 1 5561*254 63 1 OK
2980 1 0B 63 41479767 20253 2980# 1 1 5561*254 63 OK OK
2980 2 05 89337465 27872775 13609 5562# 0 1 7296*254 63 1 OK
2980 - 0B 63 41479767 20253 2980 1 1 5561 254 63 B OK
5562 1 0B 63 27872712 13609 5562# 1 1 7296*254 63 R0 OK
0 - 0B 89353593 27872712 13609 5562 1 1 7296 254 63 B OK
No jump 5562 1 1

-----FAT CHS -Size Cl --Root -Good -Rep. Maybe --Bad YYMMDD DataMB
0 1 33 11683 16* 2* 8926 0 3 2754 5144
1 1 33 11680 16 2 11680 0 0 0 031231 5194
2980 1 33 10122 16 2 10122 0 0 0 030430 5596
5562 1 33 13605 8 4552 13605 0 0 0 030430 224

Partitions according to partition tables on second harddisk:

-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 2*0F 16065117210240 57231 1 0 1 7296*254 63 OK

1 1 0B 63 47857572 23367 1 1 1 2979*254 63 OK OK
1 2 05 47857635 41479830 20253 2980# 0 1 5561*254 63 OK

2980 1 0B 63 41479767 20253 2980# 1 1 5561*254 63 OK OK
2980 2 05 89337465 27872775 13609 5562# 0 1 7296*254 63 OK

5562 1 0B 63 27872712 13609 5562# 1 1 7296*254 63 R0 OK
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Microsoft operating systems require that the first two bytes of a FAT
partition is a jump instruction, although this is not part of the
partition data structure.

The problem always seems related to Partition Magic usage.

Version and operating system version should not be cut from Findpart
output.
 
Microsoft operating systems require that the first two bytes of a FAT
partition is a jump instruction, although this is not part of the
partition data structure.

The problem always seems related to Partition Magic usage.
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This means Partition Magic is no good ?
So what program are we supposed to be using to create, size & resize
partitions, make them active
or not for dual boots and copy them to new HDs and all the other things we
sometimes need to do?

Version and operating system version should not be cut from Findpart
output.
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I did not realize that. Apologies. I cut 'n pasted the output from the
following:
-----------
Findpart, version 4.37 - for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2003.

Searches for partitions type 01, 04, 06, 07, 0B, 0C, 0E, 82, 83,
plus Fdisk F6 and Lilo sectors. Information based on bootsectors
is marked B. If the disk is larger than supported by BIOS, the
supported part of the disk is examined. Disks are numbered from 1.

OS: Windows 5.1 All
 
Bill Mudd said:
This means Partition Magic is no good ?
So what program are we supposed to be using to create, size & resize
partitions, make them active
or not for dual boots and copy them to new HDs and all the other things we
sometimes need to do?



I did not realize that. Apologies. I cut 'n pasted the output from the
following:
-----------
Findpart, version 4.37 - for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2003.

Searches for partitions type 01, 04, 06, 07, 0B, 0C, 0E, 82, 83,
plus Fdisk F6 and Lilo sectors. Information based on bootsectors
is marked B. If the disk is larger than supported by BIOS, the
supported part of the disk is examined. Disks are numbered from 1.

OS: Windows 5.1 All
-----------

Regards,

Bill Mudd
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I've always used Partition Magic to create/resize/delete my partitions. I
always create blank ones, and use Norton Ghost's PartitionToPartition option
to copy the data from the "old" partition to the "new" partition (because
it's faster than Partition Magic, well it was, not sure if it still is). I
boot using a Win98 DOS boot disk and run Ghost and Partition Magic from
floppies.

You must have the main XP partition marked as active.
 
This means Partition Magic is no good ?
So what program are we supposed to be using to create, size & resize
partitions, make them active
or not for dual boots and copy them to new HDs and all the other things we
sometimes need to do?
Click to expand...

Do you need some of the about 224 MB of data in the partition you
cannot access?

Possible solutions would be to edit the boot sector, or copy the data
to another partition using a FAT32 recovery tool.

If you do not need the data, you can delete and recreate the partition
using XP Disk Management.

Reliable partitioning tools do not exist as far as I know. One
solution is to have backup, and figure out if certain conditions make
the risk of problems larger.
 
Svend Olaf Mikkelsen said:
Do you need some of the about 224 MB of data in the partition you
cannot access?

Possible solutions would be to edit the boot sector, or copy the data
to another partition using a FAT32 recovery tool.

If you do not need the data, you can delete and recreate the partition
using XP Disk Management.

Reliable partitioning tools do not exist as far as I know. One
solution is to have backup, and figure out if certain conditions make
the risk of problems larger.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the suggestions.
I seem to have to learn the hard way. I took the data loss and reformatted
the drive.
I have now setup a good DVD backup program in case this happens again.
 
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