This isn't going to help you with your present predicament, but it is a
good illustration of why you should use hard disks mounted in removeable
caddies rather than dual boot systems.
Even with systems using the same OS, esp Winfart, it is a good idea for
dad/mum to have the business systems on a different HDD than the kids,
then you just swap over the caddy when you want to use it. No way then
that the kids can zap MYOB/Quicken/etc., or Nortons Useless can do any
unintended damage.
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Howard.
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On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Joe G wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've got a horror story to tell, and I'm wondering if
> there is still a way out of my predicament.
>
> The Win partition of my six-month-old dual-boot
> Win95-Linux system is still working properly, but my
> Linux filesystem appears to have gone crazy.
>
> When I tried to e2fsck an unmounted partition, the
> error message was that my superblock and my partition
> table contradicted each other. I also noticed that
> some of my original partitions were missing.
>
> I've tried reinstalling Linux without reformatting
> what I think is my /home partition, but as expected
> the installation did not work; it was going to require
> a full reformat of the most important parts of the
> hard disk.
>
> Any suggestions, please, before I finally give up and
> delete my unsaved personal files? I believe my
> partition table is the corrupt part; before this
> happened, my wife had allowed Norton Utilities from
> Win95 to "repair" a supposed change in my Master Boot
> Record.
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> Joe
>
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