I've suffered serious partition loss after booting back into Win98 from Linux. Repaired my partition table with gpart, but it was *really* frustrating.
-- Asheesh. On 6 Dec 2001, Charles Darcy 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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