This sounds more like Windows not correctly identifying the Drive Geometry, as it's prone to do.
-JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Asheesh Laroia |Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:06 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption. | | |On my computer, simply booting into Windows caused the |partition table corruption. No Anti-Virus software installed. | |Seriously, I think it's a bug in Win98 that occurs under |certain non-MS-tested circumstances. | |-- Asheesh. | |On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Wenninger wrote: | |> Is it possibly Anti-Virus software in windows "repairing" your boot |> sector? |> |> On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:13 pm, you wrote: |> > Hi, |> > |> > My partition table was recently corrupted, and thanks to the |> > help of this list, I managed to repair the table and re-install |> > LM8.1. |> > |> > My main concern now is trying to figure out what I did that |> > might have caused the corruption. The only unsual activities just |> > prior to corruption were: |> > |> > - Copying 3 650MB ISO files from linux reiserfs |partition to FAT32 |> > windows partition. |> > |> > - I may have left a floppy drive mounted and failed to |log out as |> > root, before shutting down (but surely this wouldn't affect the |> > partition table). |> > |> > - Booted windows. Just looked around with Explorer. I |accidentally |> > opened a BIOS flash utility, but exited immediately, without |> > activating any controls. I dont' think the utility actually did |> > anything other than show its GUI, but I can't be certain. Can |> > flashing BIOS (if thats what |> > happened) affect the partition table ? |> > |> > Upon leaving windows, Linux would not re-boot, because it |> > couldn't find the filesystems to mount due to the partition table |> > corruption. |> > |> > |> > I use reiserfs for my linux partitions, if that is a |factor. I'd |> > love to hear any ideas about possible corruption causes. |> > |> > |> > |> > regards, |> > |> > Charles. |> |> | | |
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