[djmcmath]

I hate it when this happens. The bright side is that it's a fairly entertaining bit of nerd-ery.

So I've got a 60GB Maxtor that I've been using for large data storage in my secondary machine. It's where I rip my CDs to, and where the digital photography gets stored, that sort of thing. Trouble is that I didn't realize it was only 60GB when I did the last partitioning. For whatever reason, Partition Magic let me format this thing with somewhere upwards of 130GB on the drive.

Now, I didn't remember ever having bought a drive that large, but it was great to have that much space, because it meant I could keep the two OS partitions alive in the first 30GB of the drive, and still have this massive data partition on the back 100GB (much of which didn't really exist).

So I've been slowly filling this drive, bit by bit, for a while, with no problems. Last night, I reboot my machine because it's running a little sluggishly, and the large data drive isn't on the list under "My Computer". After some investigation, I end up pulling up the partition table, which is completely buggered up. It looks, for all intents and purposes, like I wrote off the end of the drive and started back over at the beginning. Now, I've got some pretty low level tools for mucking around in partition tables. I could type individual values for any bit I felt like. I just don't particularly feel like making it worse than it already is.

Anyone here have any brilliant recommendations on how to un-bugger my partition table?

Thanks in advance,

Dan