Dear Bipin,
              Although it's not clear from your statement of the problem regarding whether the you mistakenly deleted/erased the linux partitions while installing windows, or you are unable to find a boot entry for you linux, I'm making these assumptions:
1. You had previously installed Fedora 7
2. You were using dual boot (Fedora 7 and Windows)
3. While re-installing Windows, you lost your boot entry for Fedora 7 in your boot loader.

Well, in this case, you can restore your Linux Entry (i.e. GRUB Bootloader) by following these steps:
1. Boot from the Fedora 7 CD/DVD
2. Select "Rescue" from the boot menu (alternatively you can type "linux rescue" at the boot prompt.
3. A dialog will appear asking you if you would like to mount read-only or read-write, continue with read-write (don't select read-only or don't cancel).
4. It will mount your Fedora 7 Installation directory at /mnt/sysimage and it will drop you to the shell. At the shell, type:
     chroot /mnt/sysimage
5. Hence you have set your root partition to the Fedora 7 original installation. Now check the partitions at the shell using:
          fdisk -l
6. There must be entries like /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 etc. Check in which disk is Fedora 7 installed (I assume that it's in /dev/sdax, where "x" is a number like 1,2,...). This means that Fedora 7 is installed in the first primary harddisk.
7. Now run this command at shell:
          grub-install /dev/sda
             Note: Don't forget to change /dev/sda with the actual entry at your computer
8. Reboot. You'll get your GRUB (boot loader) restored.

Regards,
Abhishek Singh

bipin bhattarai wrote:
thanks  friend

On 7/12/08, Ujwal Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Try to recover through GRUB.
GRUB can be found in other fedora disk or any other equivalent linux system.

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:01 AM, bipin bhattarai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 i've used linux in separate drive and formated my windows later i found my linux(fedora7) was lost amd the drive is empty.since i have created my  drive from  fdisk  current window cant recognise it .........
what can i do for that





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Regards
Ujwal Shrestha



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