Could you please provide more information? It would help to know what your partition table looks like (from fdisk). Could you state more specifically what symptoms this has caused? Were you not able to boot into Linux; files went missing, etc.
-Andy On Monday July 23 2001 17:35, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > Hi > I'm hoping someone can help me with my frustrating problem... > I have a laptop, and something installed under windows 98 has now > (twice) overwritten the initial part of my Linux filesystem > which exists in an extended partition. > How can I prevent this (other than by deinstalling windows! - my wife > needs to use our laptop occasionally) > Is there a free (GPL'd) or cheap piece of windows 98 software that cen > prevent disk writes to any partition other than /dev/hda1 ? > I havent managed to identify what piece of software is the culprit > yet... > > Yours > Cormac
