On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 05:28 -0500, M.Rudra wrote: > > > Ahmed Abdel-Aliem wrote: > > > my question is if i converted them using any program like partition > > > magic or any other, will this affect or make me lose the boot loader > > > and prevent me from logging into linux ?? > > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It is probably alright, particularly if the partition you convert is not > > the XP "system" partition. Which bootloader are you using? > > Linux will be fine reading and writing to a FAT32 partition. > > My Win XP blew out and fat32 data was inaccesible as the OS would not > boot. I saved all teh data in ntfs and used linux to access (copy) > data and save it on linux partition, reformated my disk and we were > fine. my question : is ntfs more secure than fat32 ? In the event of a > crash what other options do we have to retrieve data.? thanks, MR > If a system crash fsck is a good tool to repair the file system. Also liveCD such as Knoppix is handy to repair partition table, image damaged harddisk for recovery, find lost partition, I think best thing to do is always backup important data. If your data is important RAID is good idea.
