[NTLUG:Discuss] kernel 2.6 -- install -- trashing Win partitions

[pacificview505@juno.com]

I will admit that after researching this on Net, I've not done so for
about the last month.  I got one of the Novell install kits, and I'm
toying with the idea again of installing Linux.  Since a HDD switch-out 3
months ago, I have no Linux on.

Has anyone had any experience with the recent deal, IIRC coming from 2.6
kernel, in which an install re-writes, or somesuch, the partition tables
sometimes.  Result:  unbootable into Windoze in a dual-boot situation.

I don't have the URL right now, but I've seen articles to effect of
re-running some Linux command to rewrite the partition table, or some
file it modifies.  Is it really as simple as that?

This is_literally_keeping_me_from Linux now, after having run Linux for 6
years.  The general tenor of the comments to one or two posts I've made,
on non-NTLUG sites, was kind of snotty stuff to the effect of "what do
you want to run Windoze for, anyway".  I am sympathetic to the thought,
but I just cannot afford to lose_all_of_my_data_which is on FAT 32
partitions.  Even with backups on other media, there would still be lost
time rebuilding systems, etc.

Does anyone know if it only affects HDDs > 8.4, or 10, or somesuch, Gigs?
 Thanks.
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