Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 WC> Could be, you've been right an awfully lot but why was Linux on
 WC> /hda3 and /hda4 unaffected?

 RJT> Dunno about what version of win you're running there,  but most of 'em
 RJT> can't deal with there being more than one primary partition on the HD.
 RJT> That's probably the only thing that saved it.

 WC> Original 98.
 WC> Really?
 WC> I've FOUR primary partitions, one FAT 32 and three Linux.
 WC> It sure was a strange malfunction.

Yeah.  No anyway,  I don't know that w9x will or won't deal with more than
one primary partition,  I know that in dos it wouldn't see 'em,  except
that fdisk would say they were there,  but there was no way to access them.
 And more than one in a system on multiple drives would scramble drive
letters,  like having C: on the first drive,  D: on the second,  E: on the
first,  and so forth.

Never tried it with w9x,  and don't particularly care to spend the time to
experiment with it,  as I've got too much else that's higher on my list
these days.

If someone has tried it out I'd be interested in knowing...

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