Horst, I do not know the source of the problem. But I have some third part utilities: System Commander Deluxe(soon getting new System Commander 2000) and an older version of Partition Magic. Both third party utilities complained about corrupted partition table info. Originally, Stan installed Win 98 on the virgin 20GB HD. Then, I installed Mandrake 7 and used its built-in utility to shrink the Win 98 partition. The Mandrake utility(maybe Disk Druid) was used to create Linux partitions, and the Linux install appeared to be successful(and very fast). But, later I noticed the partition table error messages and a continuing degradation of system performance. So, I eventually brought the CPU box in for Stan to inspect. He did not have any better luck with it than me. So, I wiped out everything and installed from scratch. I first installed PC-DOS 7(the Portugese/Brazil version). Then, I installed System Commander Deluxe. After that, I installed additional OSes thru System Commander. And succeeded w. Win 98 and Win NT4. During these installs, I used System Commander's OS Wizard which includes some disk partition functionality. I got alot of "disk error, interrupt 80h", which I ignored(no harm as far as I could determine). Anyway, I looked on the Web site for System Commander(www.v-com.com) and found info about their companion product Partition Commander, a competitor of Partition Magic. I decided to order PC and phoned their 800 number. The Saleswoman told me that I should orer the new SC 2000 instead of Partiton Commander. SC 2000 includes all the Partition Commander functionality AND has functionality to resize, copy/move Linux partitions(includes TurboLinux too). So, I ordered the upgrade to SC 2000 for $34.95. I will wait until I get SC 2000(shipping this week) before I install Linux on top of what I already have(DOS, Win 98, Win NT4). I will use SC 2000 as much as possible for partition create, move, copy, et. al. If something goes wrong, they should provide support. I do not know if Mandrake or something else corrupted the partition table, or maybe some utility does not fully support the large 20GB HD. BTW, I phoned V-Com and got a woman in marketing to send us 2 evaluation copies of SC 2000 for our Demo Days event. She said they would ship tomorrow, maybe ready for our Thursday lab session. Rodney Horst Lueck wrote: > > > > I had a slight set back w. my new Athlon 500. The disk partition table was > > corrupted, so I had to re-install everything. > > SORRY to hear that :<( > Is there anything to learn from: hardware problem (which HD model?), or > partition utility (which ?), or OS (linux ???) > > - Horst
