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.

Well, this seems to solve my problem. That is, Windows no longer sees an extra 
disk, so I guess it won't try to format it! Now I feel happy about letting 
other people use the computer again... death threats wear out on 10 year olds 
so quickly...

On the other hand, Partition Magic won't run any more - I get "library or disk 
not open" which seems to me like a typically uninformative Windows error 
message. Perhaps it's not even connected. Who cares? I can live without 
partition magic.

Thank you all so much for your thoughts and advice, I really appreciate it.

Cheers,
Ben