It's not the first time I post about it but the last time I get not reply the last time...

I have a problem with my hard drive. I found it when i opened Partition Magic few month ago... It says something about Bad cylinder number.
With fdisk, I can see exactly what's the problem ; my partition are suppose to end at cylinder 254 but end at 239 (bad translation error???)

Is there are any ways to fix it without losing data? I dont want to format my hd (again) but it's really bad to loose 1.2 gig.


Here is the print of fdisk :
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2498 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 957 7680928+ 83 Linux native
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1015, 239, 63) should be (1015, 254, 63)

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda2 957 1072 922320 82 Linux swap
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 239, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda3 1072 2498 11460960 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 239, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda5 1072 1710 5125648+ 83 Linux native

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda6 1710 2498 6335248+ 83 Linux native


Thanx

Try to use parted and resize the partition to the right size. I'm not sure about this method.. I've never seen something like this. Parted may just refuse to do this, but it's worth it to try.