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  Is there any chance to recover the data in that partition ?  Does
anyone know any program to link the partitions by my desired order, or
some other soluction?

  Thank you very much!
  mezzanine - Portugal

Quote:>   Hya!
>   I'm getting a trouble in my comp.  Any help is welcome.
>   I have a HD with a dos primary partition (+- 1100megs ), a dos
> extended partition with 170 megs ) and 500megs for ext2 and linux
> swap.
>   My problem - windows or dos simply can't read from the extended dos
> partition.  I don't remeber why, but the extended  partition is on
> /dev/hda6, so i guess that is the problem because Partition Magic give
> an error telling that when the dos partitions are not chained by order
> some data could be inaccessible.  Also, the dos fdisk doesn't work,
> and i can't mount the partition from linux ( it always gives errors ).

>   Is there any chance to recover the data in that partition ?  Does
> anyone know any program to link the partitions by my desired order, or
> some other soluction?

The "not chained by order" thing sounds like something I ran across when I
tried Partition Magic 4.0.  It seems that PM 4.0 (and perhaps some other
programs) has problems with extended partitions in which the logical
drives are listed in an order other than their numbers -- that is, in
which, say, sda5 comes AFTER sda6.  Linux's fdisk can create such setups,
and Linux can use such drives without problems.  It may be possible to
remedy this situation by deleting the offending partitions and then
re-creating them in the appropriate order (doing both from within Linux
fdisk).  You'll have to create the new partitions with EXACTLY the correct
size, though, and I recommend backing them up completely beforehand as a
safety measure.

If Linux is giving errors, though, it sounds like you may have filesystem
corruption or some other, more serious, problem with your partition table,
either instead of or in addition to the above problem.  Exactly what
error(s) you've got I can't say.  Perhaps you could post the error
messages that Linux gives; simply saying it gives them isn't terribly
helpful.

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Quote:> I'm getting a trouble in my comp.  Any help is welcome.
> I have a HD with a dos primary partition (+- 1100megs ), a dos
> extended partition with 170 megs ) and 500megs for ext2 and linux
> swap.
>   My problem - windows or dos simply can't read from the extended dos
> partition.  I don't remeber why, but the extended  partition is on
> /dev/hda6,

If so, there is a bug in all versions of DOS:

  More than one DOS primary partition
+ Extended partition (on any drive)
--------------------------------------
= DOS partitions can't see each other
  *unless* the last logical partition in extended partition is FAT

If you do have more than one DOS/Win primary partition, the solution
is to make the very last logical partition in your extended
partition(s) formatted for DOS.

Liz
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