yep, and if you own winME and have ever installed a network assoc program (other than McAfee viru-scan) like McAfee tool box, you will be so suprised when it runs defrag and ruins all your systemDlls (well not all, just the ones needed to boot) but M$ won't be suprised.
On Thursday 06 December 2001 15:30, you wrote: > Running defrag, or scandisk destroyed my linux > partitions with '98. I disabled it and now just dont > go to windows unless I need to scan something. > Scanner progs just dont compare with color matching > in linux. > > Brian D. Klar - CVE > OTS > WPAFB > > -----Original Message----- > From: Asheesh Laroia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption. > > > On my computer, simply booting into Windows caused the partition table > corruption. No Anti-Virus software installed. > > Seriously, I think it's a bug in Win98 that occurs under certain > non-MS-tested circumstances. > > -- Asheesh. > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Wenninger wrote: > > Is it possibly Anti-Virus software in windows "repairing" your boot > > sector? > > > > On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:13 pm, you wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > My partition table was recently corrupted, and thanks to the help > > > of this list, I managed to repair the table and re-install LM8.1. > > > > > > My main concern now is trying to figure out what I did that might > > > have caused the corruption. The only unsual activities just prior to > > > corruption were: > > > > > > - Copying 3 650MB ISO files from linux reiserfs partition to FAT32 > > > windows partition. > > > > > > - I may have left a floppy drive mounted and failed to log out as > > > root, before shutting down (but surely this wouldn't affect the > > > partition table). > > > > > > - Booted windows. Just looked around with Explorer. I accidentally > > > opened a BIOS flash utility, but exited immediately, without activating > > > any controls. I dont' think the utility actually did anything other > > > than show its GUI, but I can't be certain. Can flashing BIOS (if thats > > > what happened) affect the partition table ? > > > > > > Upon leaving windows, Linux would not re-boot, because it couldn't > > > find the filesystems to mount due to the partition table corruption. > > > > > > > > > I use reiserfs for my linux partitions, if that is a factor. I'd > > > love to hear any ideas about possible corruption causes. > > > > > > > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > Charles.
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