It´s no old machine (but outdated of course - it´s a Wintel...). Asus P2B, Adaptec 2940, PII-350, ..., but sometimes W98 decides to kill my extended partitions. :-(( It´s my home computer - I use Macs only in my studio. I have SuSe Linux 6.1 (tried to reconstruct the partition table with it - unsuccessfully), but most of the time I use W98 because of other programs I need (though i HATE Windoze!). I hope to sell this shit and buy a Mac for home use also. Peter "Frank W.Kooistra" schrieb: > > From: "Frank W.Kooistra" <pipeline@...> > > Sascha Franck wrote: > > > > From: "Sascha Franck" <saschafranck@...> > > > > >From: Peter Duemmler <dixie@...> > > >Due to a Windows crash I lost all my personal email since Nov.26. > > >If anybody has sent me emails since then, please send again. > > > > Ok, I didn't mail to you privately, but here's a little tip for the future > > (as this happened to me once in the past as well): Store your mails on > > another partition. Outlook or Outlook Express ask you for a directory to > > store them in (default of course is c:) > > That way they simply will be kept on a format c:. > > > > Sascha > > If you have an old machine like 486 : > > Load linux on it ( suse is in german and very good) > You will have a system which will never crash, and will function as a > router for your other machine .. > > regards > > frank