On Monday 03 January 2005 12:06, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Check this entry of Scott Lamb's Diary:
>
> http://www.advogato.org/person/slamb/diary.html?start=41
>
> For telling how an installation of Windows XP caused his Linux partition to
> be formatted.
>
> It's a known issue in the Windows XP installation.
Not very surprising, it is a known issue with just about every Windows. My
statistics say that Linux bootloaders tend to trash windows partitions as
well, in unexperienced hands ("install lilo into boot sector of /dev/hda1?
[y/n] y"). Murphy's law applied, you may have a lot of experience and still
inevitably one day make a wrong, incredibly stupid, "what were I thinking?"
decision. The best way around is still to unplug the cable of your "other OS"
harddrive :) ...and/or at least to have a rescue CD set, a very good, recent,
full, all-included backup and a way to apply it _without any working OS_.
Mondo rescue suite works miracles there, recovering from bare metal. By the
way, what do you use?
--
Sincerely Yours,
Vasiliev Michael
NP: XMMS is not loaded.
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