Keith Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us >> Paras pradhan wrote: >>> Here is o/p John >>> >>> Number Start End Size File system Name >>> Flags >>> 1 17.4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved >>> partition msftres >>> 2 135MB 134GB 134GB ntfs Basic data partition >>> 3 134GB 1100GB 965GB Basic data partition >> <snip> >> Looks to me as though someone started to install Windows on top of your >> box. This isn't partition data magically changed - best guess is someone >> started, then stopped, realizing it was the wrong box they were working >> on. > > If it's a production box in service, and this has > happened to it, How can it still be running? And if it *is* a production box, then you know *exactly* what time it stopped working, and you can find out who was around. mark