On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:58, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi all > Run up against winxp again, I'm sure they are playing foul. > My friend recently had his PC stolen after all the hard work getting > everything sorted. > So he has his new machine 2.2GHz Athlon and 2 40 GB drives., both > formated NTFS with winXP. > He wants one with winxp on it and 1 with linux. > So went to load MDK 9.2 on it, starts up finds both HD's but fails to > get an interrupt response and says protection level >= 1. > So disconnect the first HD and swap over the cables so the second HD > looks like the only drive.... same again :(( > load a dos floppy with fdisk on it and delete the primary partition. > try yo install MDK9.2 and 9.1 and 8.2 ....same damn thing with interupt > failure and protection. > swap the HD over to second IDE and disable primary IDE in the bios so > now looking at INT 15.....same B**DDy thing !!!!!. > > > put the original primary HD back in boot up in WinXP and guess what > second HD shown as 40 GB NTFS. > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after > winxp has been on a HD.. > > >From what I've seen its on different MOBOs different size HDs.. > > So what happens to the newbie who gets a bit fed up with gates and buys > a MDK package, ? > a system that wont load is disastrous. > > > any ideas how I can get that crap off the mbr so I can load mdk 9.2 ???. > I also think Mandrake needs to combat this .. > > > Richard
Have you tried booting from a morphix or knoppix bootable disk. Then reformatting / setting things up? James
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