I found a corrupt partition table in one of my machines. It won't defrag - it has 35% fragmentation. I ran ScanDisk but I could not fix it. McAfee was no better. McAfee said not to wory about it! I can't backup the drive with Norton Ghost because it hits PARTINFO.DAT and I get the message: Internal Stack Overflow System Halted The system is then frozen. I have tried some of the option switches, and they got further, however, it thinks I have multiple partitons when I only have one. I have searched the Web and found nothing! Help!

Should have backed up earlier. I think your system is hosed. You cannot recover from a scrambled partition table.

I have a backup from Dec 20th. It looks like I will have to just port my data from there. Thanks for the help. I am an electrical engineer and have written patches for switching systems and have HEX-edited many files. Is there no way of patching the file up? Do you know of any good in-depth technical resources on the construction and layout of the partition table? Thanks.

I don't know if it applies to you but the article below says Norton Ghost 5.1c resolved Stack Overflow errors. http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/bulletin/archive/ghost/0299ghost.html Or maybe you are really just running out of stacks and need to increase them in config.sys or system.ini (I don't know anything about Ghost so forgive me if that sounds stupid). Here is a cure for Windows9x running out of stacks, but I don't know if it applies to your situation... http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q149/0/83.asp?LNG=ENG&SA=PERkilobytes With a copy of Norton's DiskEdit you can view the partition tables very easily. I have never needed to change any of the entries but it seems simple. There isn't much info in the tables so it shouldn't be too confusing.