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Hello,

I have a problem, my partition tables are broken I guess, how can I
fix it? Is there a programm able to fix this with a few mous strokes?
Here the error report:

Thanks in advance.



Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 19457 Cylinders, 255 Heads,
63
Sectors/Track
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head
Sect
StartSect NumSects
===========================================================================================================
0 0 00 0 0 0 27 0
0 0
0 0
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 0 00 0 0 0 27 267349 89 4
0 0
Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 0.
Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
ucEndCylinder (267349) must be less than 19457.
Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 89.
Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndSector expected to be 63, not 4.
Error #116: Starting sector of partition is inconsistent.
ulStartSect = 0
Begin C,H,S = 4294967295
Error #120: Logical Drive chain extends toward start of drive.
Info: This partition unexpectedly contains no sectors.
Error #110: Number of sectors in partition is inconsistent.
ucSectors = 0
end - begin = 1
0 1 80 0 1 5 0E 1023 254
63
67 164,794,703
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 1 80 0 1 5 0E 10257 254 63 67
164794703
Error #106: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 5.



===========================================================================================================
Partition Information for Disk 1: 152,625.3 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect #
StartSect
TotalSects
===========================================================================================================
Z: Type 27 Pri 0.0 0 0
0
0
C: NTFS Pri,Boot 80,466.2 0 1
67
164,794,703
Unallocated Pri 72,159.1 None --
164,794,770
147,781,935


===========================================================================================================
Boot Record for drive C: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 67, Type: NTFS)
===========================================================================================================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 67 (0x43)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80000000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 164794696
17. MFT Start Cluster: 2832703
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 3428271
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x4E0CA0660CA04AB3
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55

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