FAT corrupted / Mozilla Problem

[Guest makra]

Hi,

 

Since 3 weeks I am using the mandrake 9.0 distribution. It was quite easy to

install it.

 

I was trying the mozilla composer to create a web page.

After three times of starting the system, the mozilla hung.

Seems to be, the config of the kde (at least) was strubbled.

I was able to save all my data, but I had to install the Linux

completely new. Scince that time it works.

 

Now, bigger problem. Neighbour of me installed the mandrake linux

before 4 weeks, and it worked fina all the time. Now the problem.

 

***************** /mnt/win_d/ is corrupted ********************

 

He was running linux or win98, occasionly.

He reported, he started win98 from /mnt/win_c/ and runned

kaza. He did it many times before, but now his FAT is corrupted.

The fault appeared while running windows, but can it be that this problem

is related to linux partly ???

 

Hardware : AMD 586 900Mhz, Asus mainboard, 20GB HD, 256MB RAM.

Soft: Win98 C: 4GB FAT32, D: 12GB FAT32, Mandrake HDA6 (?) 4 GB

 

Could it be that linux played its rol in corrupting win_d ?

 

Now two things have to be done: deactivating automount until

partition is restored. How to do this ?

 

Restoring data with a low levil recovery program. Wich program to use ?

 

reformat win_d, activate automount again, put data back to win_d.

 

Any ideas should be welcome

[Guest makra]

Hi,

 

The harddisk is reformatted and the computer is setup

with mdk9.0 as only operating system.

 

Is that a general problem that partition tables can be

destroyed when two different systems are installed

(that means linux and windows) ?

 

I remember another mdk9.0 user has reported same problem...

 

mfg makra

[pmpatrick]

Not likely. I have win98, Mandrake 9.0 and Red Hat 8.0 on my box with no such problems. Many people dual boot without having their windows partitions corrupted. I suspect a windows problem but without knowing more it's hard to tell.

 

Can your friend access /mnt/win_d in linux? If he can, you can copy the data on /mnt/win_d to the linux partition or C(/mnt/win_C) or both, reformat D and copy the data back. You may be able to access the data on the corrupted partition in linux even though windows can't. Also, why do you beleive the FAT is corrupted on D? What error messages does he get when he tries to boot into windows? Can he even get windows to boot? Have you tried running the windows utility scandisk to correct the problem and if so, what result?

 

Post back with a little more info and I might be able to come up with more suggestions.

[Cannonfodder]

Only thing to watch out for is installing linux and making more than a total of 4 primary partitions. One of the partitions should be extended and used to create virtual partitions.

 

The other two things to watch out for after installing linux is using a windows disk manager or partition manager or using a boot manager such as Partition Magic or System Commander. In either case, you run the risk of damaging your partition table. Better to just use the linux diskdrake application as much as possible.

[Guest caslca]

hello there. Me - "another MDK user...". I found what the bug is after a LOT of tweaking(and loosing 2 fat partitions in the process). It's caused by the noapic bug with the current kernel. To fix it, you'll have to pass noapic as an option to the kernel at boot time. It goes together with your other options like "quiet" or "devfs=nomount" etc.