PartitionMagic: "Partition Type: BAD"

[sparka]

Well, I just installed my second distro of linux onto my secondary hard disk (Ubuntu and Kubuntu), which also has a primary NTFS partition on it also.
Everything went fine, but I wanted to resize my partitions to redistribute and manage free space a bit better.

Unfortunately, when I fired up Partition Magic 8.0, my whole hard drive was defined as "BAD", and I can't edit anything about the hard disk.

Obviously there is nothing wrong with the hard drive itself, seeing I can read and write to the hard disk within windows.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!!

 

[Ulukia]

What file system is the linux partitions set to?

 

[sparka]

I have two ext3 partitions and a swap partition.

 

[Ulukia]

If I remember correctly, PM can only read EXT2 partitions not EXT3.

 

[imported_goku]

Either way, you should be able to access the data though so you should move the data off and then rebuild the drive, I've had this happen before..

 

[Nothinman]

PM is really nice when it works, but when it doesn't work it tends to go way overboard. And PM does support ext3 just fine, when it works. Infact the ext2/3 resize support was written by the author of the ext2/3 filesystems and was released under the GPL few years after PM paid him to do it, it's where the resize2fs binary came from.

Most likely there's something odd about your partition table, the entries aren't in sequential order or something. It works just fine, but PM chokes on it. You're probably better off running a defrag in Windows, backing up all of your important data and then using one of the partition resize tools that runs in Linux.