> > How can I prevent this (other than by deinstalling windows! - my wife
> > needs to use our laptop occasionally)
>
> Even wives can use GNU/Linux. At least my wife can.
>
hi :)
My wife can but she'd rather not - she already has to cope with using
a Mac at work!
> Are you sure Windows did n
Ah,
well it seems that is partly my own fault, though it was some
time before I found this out..
It's a long story by now but my disk looks essentially like this
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlock
On Monday 23 July 2001 23:35, 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.
> Ho
On 23 Jul 2001, at 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 c
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 McGuinn
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