-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to CHARLES ANGELICH:

 WC> Really annoying that /hda1 looked fine checking it out from Linux
 WC> but when I used the EBD everything went to hell in a heartbeat.

 RJT> Sounds like something stomped on the MBR.

That's what made me do fdisk/mbr which wiped out LiLo, no joy
and Win 98 still refused to acknowledge the hard drive.
I sys'ed the drive as well and that also failed.
Fortunately I had a Linux boot diskette and restored LiLo.
98 looked fine from Knoppix but was utterly scrambled
when I tried to boot to it in any number of ways.
Format c: and reinstall was the only thing that worked
and it took a while and a few trips into Linux for that to take.

 CA> Still sounds like over heating to me.

 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.

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