The partition table is independent of the ext3 filesystem, but yes it would probably repair the partition table. That said, it's rather unusual for the partition table to go and everything else to ...

Check partition table health in Lion's Disk Utility Apple's Disk Utility has always checked the health of volume structures, but in Lion it will verify the structure of the partition tables as well.

The GUID Partition Table (GPT) replaces the previous master boot record (MBR). GPT partitions can hold 18 exabytes compared to 2.2TB for the MBR.

One of my dual boot Win 9x/GNU/Linux boxes has some sort of issue with the partition table, so that occasionally it renders one of my OS partitions unbootable. This time it's Windows.

Fix Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks error.

What actually happens is that it interprets the GPT partition table incorrectly, and that causes it to get confused about what is where on the disk. In my case with LMDE, what it did was write the ...

In a daily load strategy, you would have a partition per day, but you are allowed up to 1000 partitions on a table so you have almost 3 years to work out an archive strategy. (Just kidding;-). Of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Page 2 of 2: Restoring the MBR and fixing partition tables Corrupt Windows and Linux boot ...

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...