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Re: [LUG] Corrupt partitions



It seems reasonable to assume that on Thursday 25 September 2003 06:00, 
mltruscott wrote:

> error extended partition:  bad magic number on disk hda

Is not hte magic number the last couple of bytes of the MBR, IE bytes 499 
and 500 or thereabouts?

That suggests somehting is in the MBR that has no busienss being there.


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