boot with your win98 boot disk then fdisk/mbr will clear the boot
record, run fdisk and see what partitions it locates and deal with
accordingly, come back if you need more info . If you reinstall 98 it also
will clear and restore mbr.
"Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Major partition magic screw up
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [expert] Major partition magic screw up
>
>
> > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:43:04PM -0500, Payne Stanifer wrote:
> > -> I tried to install Linux on a new box of mine, but the vidoe card
isn't
> > -> supported yet. So, I decided I would delete the partition that I
> created
> > -> with the partition magic that it came with. Well, everyting went fine
> and it
> > -> told me that the partition was deleted. However, when I rebooted
> partition
> > -> magic loaded its self and tells me the Linux partition to be deleted
> can't
> > -> be found. It does this every time now and I can't get to my winders
> > -> partition, which, BTW has some pretty important stuff on it. What am
I
> do
> > -> to???? Someone PLEASE help. Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Boot to floppy with Mess-DOS or W95/98, then "fdisk /mbr".
> >
>
> And for some more extensive partition help for those interested:
> http://www.linuxforum.com/plug/articles/partition.html
>
> Hoyt
>
>
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