Win98 OEM, a legit copy from www.softman.com. Remember, Win98 is quirky; what works one day may not the following. It's possible the same code that corrupted my partition table didn't corrupt yours because it was of a different size, or in a different order; or, maybe it only kills partitions on certain days.
And in response to another reply, I made the partition table myself under Linux fdisk (or maybe cfdisk), as I recall. -- Asheesh. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2001 03:06 pm, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > 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. > > Could be, but you haft'a remember there's all kinds of different > W9x versions out there. Biggest differences seem to be between the > OEM and 'retail' full install versions. At least in my experience. > > I dual boot an OEM (less than kosher ;) ONLY W98 version without > any service packs/updates, and it's never interfered with lilo/grub, > doesn't even know that I have ReiserFS partitions, couldn't see ext2 > partitons when I had them either. OTOH, I've seen retail versions of > W9x that can't stand anything but fat partitions on any drive, and > even worse, offer to 'fix' em ;> Since I NEVER connect to the Net > with Winblows, I don't bother with virus scanners, none installed. > Windoze is good for flyin airplanes ;~> > .... 'bout all it's good for ;) >
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