Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

[David Boles]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 22:27:42 -0400, DataChannel said:

| So a hardware problem would be completely missed by SMART and a clean FULL
|  format and a thorough scandisk and a defrag that results in erasing the
|  linux partition?
|  
|  I would love to know how a hardware error would result in only wiping out
|  the linux partition and leaving the windows one fully intact with no errors
|  or anything.
|  
|  Yet Linux can be reinstalled and work *perfectly* without *ever* crashing or
|  generating a single error on that same partition that the windows defrag so
|  kindly removed for me.

Is the linux partition formated as a DOS partition instead of an linux
partition?

That might do it.


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David Boles
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