It's also possible that the partitions overlap.
Mandrake 7.0 will make such things. Run fdisk and see if that might
happen. You wouldn't notice a problem until Windows tried to write to
the end of the partition, such as when you ran a defrag program.
If this is it, you'll have to blame Mandrake rather than Microsoft, I'm
afraid.
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My WIndows98 has done it again!
> >
> >
> > Yesterday I booted into Windows to look at my bankaccount. Being
> > there I thought it a good idea to defrag "C:" (/dev/hda1) as I
> > was told to do so every now and then.
> > Checked the options of defrag, told the program to work on "C:"
> > and nowhere else, started the app and went to bed.
> > This morning the screen told me that defrag had done its task
> > without errors. I closed Windows and booted into Linux -- I
> > tried to boot into Linux!
> > The boot process (via LILO) started normal but somewhere before
> > entering interactive mode it hanged. The first time I had to hit
> > the reset button since I use Linux!
> > Booting with a floppy revealed that there was no /boot on
> > /dev/hda2.
> [snip]
> > What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
> > primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
> > "C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.
> >
> I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
> partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm). This
> makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
> leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
> Linux do the partitioning.
> John
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