In a message dated: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:48:46 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
>On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Adam Wendt wrote:
>> ... in windows and I got this wonderful idea to run defrag and scandisk
>> all went well until I tried to boot into linux and BAM! ... it seems the
>> partition table is messed up or something?
>
>On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Adam Wendt wrote:
>> when i try to get info on c: it says error #113 partitions overlap
>
> Ugh. You're either about to be very glad you made backups of your system,
>or about to start wishing you did. :-(
>
> There really isn't any good way to recover from your partitions being
>scrambled.
This brings up a good question. How does one make a copy of their partition
table (say to floppy) for just such an occasion? I had this happen a while
back, but fortunately, I didn't have anything on the system yet, and I just
re-installed.
This would be a great piece of information to know, even if one does do
regular backups. I'd much rather spend 10 minutes re-storing my partition
table than getting backup tapes from off-site and having a server down for 4
hours while I wait for tapes.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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