At 11:45 PM 9/5/2002 +1000, you wrote: >Well I've set up a lot of dual boot machines and defragging the FAT32 >partitions has never caused a problem (even using the crappy defragger >built in to 9x). I've lost the original message, but it would seem that >we are tackling this from the wrong premise - i.e. that ME is just >lamentable and defragging is causing the problem. Yes it is lamentable, >but it doesn't normally behave like this. > >My guess is therefore, that there is something somewhat amiss with the >way your partitioning is setup. Is there a disk geometry expert in the >house? > >Brian
If I may add something here: ME is the strangest beast M$hit ever put out. It doesn't follow "their" conventional disk geometry schemes. The NT & 2k partitioning for example is virtually the same. Ditto for win98 & 95. Also, if he's using a third party defragger (Norton, distemper, etc) they WILL Screw ME to hell & back. They also screw linux most times. Esp. if they do a surface scan & repair job. Diskeeper is a little better from what I hear. Nortons (esp. the speedisk feature) is prone to corrupting linux partitions. Their answer: tough shit. Deal with it. We only support M$ products. IIRC the original poster was using norton. If that's the case you've just pooched your linux install. If not, well this just adds to the knowledge base no? --- Femme
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