If the partition table itself was corrupt, or if there was an overlap, it is certainly possible for defrag to make your day very interesting. When I upgraded to a 20GB drive, I used SuSE fdisk to create my partitions including 1 Windoz boot. I then used DD to copy from the old (failing 8.4GB) to the new 20GB. Windows booted ok, Linux booted ok. Later, I went to resize my partitions with Partition Magic and it reported overlapping partions. I then used SuSE fdisk to delete the windows partion, resized my partitions with Partition Magic, and formatted the Windows partion. I then used a recursve cp to copy the old windows partion to the new one. The moral of the story: Backup your data, and keep a map of your partition table. If your partition table is messed up, in many cases you can rebuild it from scratch if you know all your parameters, and not lose data. Also, several Windows viruses can destroy partition tables. On 24 Apr 2000, at 15:28, Jerry and June Kreps wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Rich wrote:
Hi
I have run win98 defrag on my c:\ drive, dev/hda1 partition and it has destoyed the ext2 partitions on the same drive.
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