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On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:05:39 +0100 Paul Sutton wrote:
I will keep trying and perhaps wait a few more hours before stopping, lol I thought the boot loader was on the first part of the hdd and not on any particular file system, so if it's a dual boot and the bootloader is at the start of the first partition which houses windows then it would be on a fat partition, on the other hand if the whole hdd is linux then it would be on perhaps a ext2/ext3 or whatever file system, in which case I would not need scandisk as thats part of windows. As I said I will keep trying Paul
If you installed the bootloader to the MBR, then the pointer to it (ie the bit that is checked first) comes before any partitions at all, and is therefore not checked by scandisk. If you installed the bootloader to the bootblock of a partition, then yes, it will be part of the partition, but not of the filesystem so it's not checked during a scandisk. Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html