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Linux can't read my partition table?

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Can you explain it?
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Not without seeing the before and after partition tables, but partition tables and drive geometry stuff is weird and it's easy for one system to see a drive one way and another to see it differently.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Not without seeing the before and after partition tables, but partition tables and drive geometry stuff is weird and it's easy for one system to see a drive one way and another to see it differently.
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True, that! :thumbsup:

The first HD I owned had a PerStor controller - talk about weird geometry! I still don't understand how it worked - used some sort of pseudo-RLL encoding on MFM HDs. You had to format it with proprietary software (using their special controller) and it would turn a 20MB HD into 60MB... if I remember correctly.

And, remember those virus-like 'disk managers', such as Ontrack - trying to beat the 137GB limit?!?!? One hiccup and your data was toast!

Okay, now I get it!

MediaDirect is probably in that genre, corrupted the MBR, the other partitions, reported phony cylinder boundaries to fdisk, or whatever... and Linux said "FU"! 😉

How's that for ghetto forensics?
 
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