On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Arup Mukherjee wrote: > > Hi, > I'm having a problem that appears to be the inverse of what > some people here have had before. The partition tables on BOTH my > disks, as linux sees them, are screwed up. However, if you boot dos or > windows 95 from the hard disks (via lilo, which still works), both dos > and w95 still have an accurate idea of the partition information and > work fine. I guess they're using a copy of the partition table as > opposed to the real thing.
This is VERY typical of a boot sector virus, you should get a fprot or some other scanner and sweep your MBR from a clean boot floppy. I had exactly the same symptoms on one of my computers when I had the Monkey virus. Jason