Re: Preventing windows from screwing linux up
On 23 Jul 2001, at 17:35, Cormac McGuinness wrote:
> Hi
> I'm hoping someone can help me with my frustrating problem...
> I have a laptop, and something installed under windows 98 has now
> (twice) overwritten the initial part of my Linux filesystem
> which exists in an extended partition.
> How can I prevent this (other than by deinstalling windows! - my wife
> needs to use our laptop occasionally)
> Is there a free (GPL'd) or cheap piece of windows 98 software that cen
> prevent disk writes to any partition other than /dev/hda1 ?
> I havent managed to identify what piece of software is the culprit
> yet...
Hi Cormac:
Some partitioners don't properly fdisk a new partition. A way I
check this is I go into windows fdisk and peek at the partition
tables. If windows sees the partition, it will overwrite stuff.
Try using debian's cfdisk. hth Dean
>
> Yours
> Cormac
>
>
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