Dangerous file system / disk problem

[Ben Paley]

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:38, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:20, Ben Paley wrote:

> > But seriously, does any of this suggest a course of action to you? I'm
> > planning to try the "set sysid to 0" plan... what if that doesn't work?
>
> Sounds like an excellent idea. Perhaps windows is seeing the slice as a fs
> it knows about but finds it unformatted, so is offering to do that for you.
>
> So maybe setting sysid to zero (which I think registers as an undefined
> slice) will stop windows making the offer.
>
> Whatever else I can't see how this would make the situation worse.

This is very comforting - I shall give it a go and let you know how it comes 
out.

Cheers,
Ben