On Sunday 03 February 2002 16.10, zentara wrote:
Hi, As you read on this list, someone lost their partition table due to the virus called Microsoft Windows.
I think it was more than the partition table that was lost. Windows has been known to ignore partition boundaries and just continue writing, destroying any non-windows data on later partitions
Even if you don't have a dualboot, do yourself a favor and backup your partition table. Just do this:
fdisk -l /dev/hda >>mytable.txt (or whatever disks you have) and write it to a floppy or handcopy it to a piece of paper.
It just might save your A.
Good idea, though fdisk -lu is probably better. Some people, like me, manage to create partitions that don't end on cylinder boundaries :) regards Anders