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Hiding Partition Table



Does anyone know what might cause my partition table on my hard drive to
disappear whenever I shutdown my machine? As long as it is on and
running I notice no problems and have not seen any data corruption
issues. I believe it has also been fine through a reboot but I am not
sure as I have not done one of those for a while. It just happens when I
shutdown my machine for a weekend. When I get back and power it on the
fails to find the boot disk. However if I boot Knoppix and run gpart on
the drive for about an hour the partition table magically reappears and
I can boot off the drive again and have all of my data. The only things
I can think of that might cause this are bad shutdown scripts which I
have not seen any other people with similar problems on Gentoo or some
kind of issue where my hard drive only works after it gets warmed up
which seems strange to me.

Thanks,

Jon Klimowicz

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