On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:34:11PM +0530, shyamk @ eth . net wrote: > > > But ... at least 2 months after the dual-boot installation > the E: and F: did show up. They did the vanishing act only > after my friend (who I said can be trusted) did his. > >
There are some problems in 9x neighbourhood. For small files it is okay, unlike NT, the write management under 9x is not that hot. If your friend has transferred a huge folder which started off somewhere near the partition boundary, there are chances of crossing the boundary segments specially so for two adjacent logical partitions. Virus is very unlikely. For jiggering up a extended-logical boundary, the virus has to do a fair amount of work and do a direct disk write to that specific sector. It is always better to keep a copy of fdisk -l, stacked away safely, or even on hard copy. In case you had your data, it was just a matter of re-marking the boundaries with Linux fdisk, and everything would have worked ... Are other things on the extended partition working ? If yes, the boot record of the extended is abs fine. Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Contents of .deb file [#1] LOST #044 To know the contents of a deb file, if you have dpkg installed fire Midnight Commander (mc) ... Just press enter on the .deb file in mc and you have all the contents of the .deb file ... Then you can copy all the stuff from one pane to another in some directory. Same thing applies to .tar.gz and rpm files .. provided rpm, tar and gzip are installed. ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>################################## : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
