Hi,
I just had a major crash on my system today.
I think it may have been a windows virus but not sure.
Anyhow, this is what happened.
I'm using Mandrake 8.2
I booted up, and before the dual boot screen came up i had
L 01 01 01 01 01 ETC.
running across the screen.
Tried the rescue disk and got the following message.
ASK_BEFORE_BLANKING Extended partition.
So I had to reload Linux.
What I noticed was that the linux partition was sitting over the top of the windows partition.
So I deleted all Linux relevant partitions and reloaded the system.
After this I have 5 areas on the disk unrecoverable, approx 300 meg each. spaced out across the entire disk.
The system is up and running ( something I dont believe windows could have achieved ).
Does anyone have any ideas?

is the space in an extented partition

sounds like the partition table is wacked

Have you fsck your disk for errors?

Or you might have to run fdisk and see what you can do from there...

#Garry

well the first error was a simple and common LILO error. But for your "unrecoverable space" I really dunno... What do you mean by "unreacoverable" ? Are you sure it just not because it's *nux partition so Windoze cannot read it?

In linux run fdisk and what is the type of those 'unrecoverable' partitions, are they unallocated space or what?

#Garry

Sorry for the late reply.
I have 5 areas on my disk which were scrambled.
Im using md8.2.
The partition tool couldnt recover these parts of the disk due to them being too corrupted.
is there a way of cleaning these up?