Re: [Cooker] DANGER: WinME update may trash all non-Windows partitions

[Simon Peter Nicholls]

I've had exactly the same corruption we're talking about on two of my 
machines, but they were both running win98 second edition plus updates. 
No amount of fiddling would fix the partitions. At the time I had my 
suspicions it was scandisk doing the dirty deed. Now I keep windows 
trussed up in a little virtual machine file - only need it for 
Dreamweaver ultradev now.

I tried to find a utility to "lock" the partition table when running 
under windows but failed - anyone know anything?

Cheers,
Si.

JJ wrote:

>     Same here, I've had Mandrake on my other partition (ext2) since
> win95<--->winME, and have used windows update with no problems, wellll,
> no problems with the ext2 partition, or Lilo..
> Cheers,
> JJ
>