bad partition after Linux install

From: Paul Fedorenko (pfedorenko_at_look.ca)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:23:18 -0500

Repartitioned a hard drive recently, and decided to put Linux back on it,
since I had a lot of unused space. Before the install, my drive setup was
as follows

Disk 1
            Windows XP, NTFS, entire drive
Disk 2
            4GB partition for Windows swap space
            10GB FAT32 partition cor sharing data between Linux and Windows
            14 GB unused space, which is where I put Linux (Fedora 2)

that 14 GB was split as follows:

            100MB /boot partition
            3GB /home partition
            11GB /partition

After the install, both Windows and Linux booted fine through GRUB. Windows
could see all it's native partitions fine, as could Linux and they could
both read/write to the FAT32 disk.

Now... I opened up Partition Magic 8 to see what it could tell me about how
Disk Druid set up the Linux partitions, and it reports my entire second
drive as being bad, and inaccessible. It refuses to show the individual
partitions set up there, and gives me errors whenever I start the program.

I'm not too concerned at the moment, since everything's useable. But my
question is: Should this concern me? Will my system be rendered unusable
at some indetermined time in the future because of this? Is there a way of
realigning the partitions, through Linux, maybe, so that they report the
right information?

Incidentally, both Linux fdisk and diskpart under XP report the partitions
as healthy. It's just Partition Magic, which is leading me to believe that
the program is lacking in some way, despite having support for the ext3 file
system...

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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