On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 02:51, Eric Huff wrote: > > > if the defrag or scan disk (most likely scan disk) screw with the > > > last sector of the partition, it is possible, if the next logical > > > partition starts right away, that the next partition start sector > > > will be fubared, and not allow access to that partition. > > I was thinking that it might make sense to partition a small neutral > zone between windows and linux. I messed up my boot partition awhile > ago while shrinking windoze with the diskdrake shrinker... > if you use diskdrake, durring the install, in the expert mode, you can leave a few sectors empty at the end/beginning and not wasts very much space, if you really feel the need. hardly anyone tries (or should try) to resize a partition that is not the last partition on the drive. I right now have a win ME partition that somehow (running some program the owner does not remember) managed to screw the last sector of the win ME drive, so now when when ME runs scandisk, it want to delete a bunch of files that are easily accessible if boot into linux. Same box and customer had win 98 then upgraded to winME, and screwed his box then by running some second party scandisk that was made for 98, and won't work with ME.
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