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jtpenrod:

quote: I would think that it was a "problem" with Defrag that caused your system to crap due to bad programming...
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When I was setting up a partition to install QNX, Partition Magic indicated a problem with the VFAT partition. Somehow, the Mandrake partition setup caused an overlap between the VFAT and Linux partitions.    :eek:    I can't seem to be able to find it as Partition Magic shows these as seperate, and Hard Drake says that the VFAT partition spans cylinder 0 -- 402. It has the Linux extended partition running from cylinder 403 -- 848.    :confused:    That doesn't look like an overlap. If Partition Magic is right about this, then that would explain how Defrag managed to wipe out two OSs at one crack.

Furthermore, I don't see how the hell that happened. And not just once, the first time I lost all the Linux partitions. After installing a second time, it seems as if this overlap has happened again.  :(

[ February 08, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]

voidmain:
Ahhh, you are running Mandrake.  Another difference between your setup and mine. You aren't running any sort of Ontrack Disk Manager garbage are you? Also, I know in the old days Linux wanted to be aligned on cylinder boundries and sometimes didn't like the way DOS partitions were laid out but I could always get around that using Linux' "fdisk" rather than the graphical Disk Druid at install time.  I haven't had any problems on the 7.x versions of RedHat on any machines.  I have *very* limited experience with the Mandrake Hard Drake. Is there anything in the Mandrake forums about this?

jtpenrod:
Found a fix for this problem. You can start up Disk Drake, take a meg of so off the VFAT partition. Next, boot into Winders, then use Partition Magic to resize the VFAT partition back to where it was. That removes any partition overlap, and you don't lose any data or break anything.  

lu666s:
I am actually glad that I do not have any dual boot issues. Some time ago (2 years back when I tried mandrake 6.0 and win98 on one machine), at some point similar thing happened to me, I don't really remember the circumstances, but a project that I was working on for days was trashed (win) and my email repository went down to tubes as well (lnx). I decided that to have a dual boot is generally a bad idea and when I'll be ready ... Took me a while, my boxen multiplied, so last summer I decided to dedicate one to linux. After a while, I realized that there is really any good reason why the other box has to be stuffed with a crappy os that crashes at least 6 times a day (w2k, way more stable than 98 that crashed about thrice as often). I have vmware on one of the boxen with w2k and surprisingly, when I use it the crash ratio is almost to zero. It is though, easy to reboot, it takes about 15 seconds to get to the login and I am already tapping nervously on the desk. :) Actually, lately it has been used quite infrequently, only to check some layouts in MSIE, which can be considered unfortunate but necessary due to its epidemic spread.

My third box is a server with no GUI, only commandline, but controlled remotely from LAN with a webmin like interface.

One day, the w2k running under vmware will be gone, perhaps in not too distant future. Good riddance, I'd say.

I am not sure what I am trying to say... maybe it is too late. :)

Maybe one thing... If one compares linux and winblows, linux has a tremendous depth, but somehow, it is not like an abyss, more like when one looks into starry blackness and feels one with the universe. Winblows seems to be skin deep, albeit one assumes a depth too, there must be. There is, a deep well, but it is full of horseshit.

I would not allow winblows to be an OS that is responsible for running my box, any of them.

[ February 09, 2002: Message edited by: lu666s ]

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