Disk Error

[travis4prez]

I started Partition Magic 8 to resize a couple partitions and it gave me an error message stating it has detected an error 113 on the partition starting at Sector 63. This partition overlaps another partition or the end of the disk. Also says the file system can be truncated from195366402 sectors to 133885647 sectors. I'm not sure if I want it to do that. Part Magic won't let me resize any of the partitions. It tells me the whole thing is bad.
Partition info yields this:
Error #120: Logical Drive chain extends toward start of drive.
The drive is a 100GB WD. It is installed as my secondary master. I XP on my primary master and Mandrake 9.1 on the 1st partition of the affected drive.
Partition info looks like this:
Volume Errors Part Type Status // Part Sect # Start Sect
0 extendedX Pri Boot 0 0 63
0 EPBR Log None -- 63
---skip to the problem---
J: 0 NTFS Log 103121235 0 103121298
*.SWAP 1 Linux Swap Pri 0 1 133885710
0 EPBR Log 103121235 1 134030295

It looks like Mandrake just put its swap file right in the middle of my J drive.
Checked the drive with WD Data lifeguard and that found no errors.

How do I fix this?

bump

And a move to the Linux forum maybe someone will see it there.

[dunbar]

I believe the method which is most likely to succeed is to use M$ tools to create the NTFS partition, use only a portion of the drive. Then, Linux's fdisk, cfdisk or disk druid should recognize the NTFS partition and only work with the remainder of the drive space. I'll go out on a limb and assume you did a fully 'automagic' install of Mandrake; and Mandrake screwed up big time. In any case, can you go back to the M$ fdisk thingy and blow away the 'unrecognized' Linux partitions? If yes, and all the NTFS contents are undamaged, then retry Mandrake in Expert install mode.