----- 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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