Re: Beware: Installation of "Red Hat-based" Linux distributions corrupt Windows HDD!

> Hi Emeric!

Hi Martin.

> I found out that there is a serious bug in the current installer, which
> is causing wrong disk geometry stored in the MBR. Only Windows is using
> that kind of info, so Linux is not affected. Below I will quote two
> messages from the fedora-test-list. The first from Gene C. deals with a
> method to avoid disk geometry corruption, the second from Radu Cornea
> shows a way to repair a damaged disk. I hope these mails will be helpful
> for you! If you want more information, there was quite a discussion on
> fedora-test-list about this which I didn't follow. You can find it here:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/thread.html
> (look for the thread "Fix for the XP dual boot problem" starting with
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg02114.html )

Very interesting articles, indeed! Thank you very much. However The
problem I'm experiencing is a little different. On mine, the MBR on the
Windows HDD is keeped untouched (since I still can boot it up to a
certain point). Second thought is that in the above related problems,
HDDs were IDE. I might be totally wrong, but I think LBA is irrelevant
for SCSI HDDs.


Best regards,

	Emeric