Invalid Partition Table

[Kitte Cole [Symantec]]

On 27 Sep 1998 23:40:20 GMT, Steve Senkiw wrote:

>A recent message from Terry Johnson spoke about NDD giving him an
>"invalid partition table" message. I too, have had the same problem
>(twice), and while I am grateful to know how to (hopefully) now
>correct the problem in the future, I was wondering why the Disk
>Doctor seems to find this disk space suddenly, and why does
>recovering it seem to delete or otherwise alter my partition table?
>Thanks in advance.

Hello Steve,
Can you please go to this URL and run the test on your computer to see
if you are running one of the defective controller card drivers?

http://www.symantec.com/nu/promise.html

Please let me know the results.

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[Steve Senkiw]

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 22:48:23 GMT, Kitte Cole [Symantec] wrote:
> Hello Steve,
> Can you please go to this URL and run the test on your computer to see
> if you are running one of the defective controller card drivers?
>
> http://www.symantec.com/nu/promise.html
>
> Please let me know the results.
>
> Good Luck!
> Thank you for writing and thank you for using Norton Utilities.
> Please continue to post your messages to the public discussion groups as
> Symantec does not provide support via private e-mail.
>
> If you have difficulty getting a response, please read the following
> article:
>
> http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/sharedtech.nsf/docid/1998527114414
>
> For free technical support newsletters, Knowledge Base support articles,
> our Online Support Genie, and FAQs, visit our Norton Utilities support page:
>
> http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/nu.html

Nope. The program didn't detect a faulty driver. Sorry.

Steve

[Vernon Balbert (Symantec)]

On 29 Sep 1998 14:07:06 GMT, Steve Senkiw wrote:

>Nope. The program didn't detect a faulty driver. Sorry.

Steve,

The only thing I can think of would be some sort of extraneous garbage
in the partition table chain that NDD is finding. In order to see
this more clearly, I would need to see what is in the partition table.
In order for you to do that, open a DOS window and type in the
following command line:

DISKEDIT /MULTITASK

This will allow you to run Disk Edit in read-only mode under Windows.
(It won't let you make any changes to the drive when running under
Windows.) Hit Alt-D to select the drive, select Physical drives and
then the drive in question. Once you do that you'll see a strange
screen showing a bunch of hexadecimal numbers. Hit the F6 key and
you'll switch to Partition Table View. At that point, you'll see a
table and that's what I want to see. Copy and paste that table into a
response to this message and we can see what's there.

Vernon Balbert
Senior Support Analyst
Symantec Corporation

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