> > "Mike & Tracy Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Hello Cooker,
> > > On install of mdk 7.2 (final?), Diskdrake ate my Windows
> > 2000 partition -
> > > any suggestions? I did an expert install on a 13GB drive
> where Windows
> > > occupied the first half of the drive. When I got to diskdrake,
> > I created a
> > > swap and a "/" partition in my free space and chose only to
> > format those two
> > > partitions. An error message popped up (nothing discriptive)
> > and then all
> > > my partitions were gone.
> >
> > i'm interested by this error! can you mail me the report.bug?
> > to get it:
> >
> > during install, switch to console 2,
> > put a fat floppy in floppy drive,
> > and type "bug"
> >
> > -> it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests me :)
> > (it will include the error message)
> >
> > thanks, cu Pixel.
>
> Hello Pixel,
> Sorry to be so late with this :( Anyway, I've played with the
> setup several
> times and found that if I choose to check for 'bad blocks' then the setup
> will go through from there. It seems to be that choosing not to check for
> bad blocks is what causes the problem. The error that I saw on the screen
> was "An error occured swap area needs to be" and that's it.
> I've attached
> the report.bug like you asked and now I'm going to try to do a normal
> install. :)
>
> thanks, Mike
Me again Pixel!
Evidently it doesn't have anything to do with the 'bad block' being selected
or not; however, if you keep going instead of rebooting, it gives you a
clear slate to re-partition with (it's already wiped the partition table at
this point) and after selecting the partitions you want again, it gives the
error "DiskDrake failed to read correctly the partition table. Continue at
your own risk!" After this, I'm able to setup my partitions (excluding the
Windows 2000 partition which I'll have to reload later), and formatting
begins then it moves on to the packages like normal. I was able to install
to a friends computer with these same CD's without problem. It was a triple
boot setup with Win98/Win2k/MDK7.2 on a 1GHz Athlon/256MB RAM.
I'm really confused! But attached is another report.bug, so hopefully it
will make more sense to you?
Thanks again, Mike
>
report.bug
