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From: "Damian G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandarke won't boot anymore!
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:41:18 -0400
> "eric jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I suspect I really messed things up yesterday!
> >
> > I ran Norton's Disk Doctor's Scan Disk program on the drive where I have
my
>
> just for the record, when you run norton windoctor on a drive that has
> partitions of unknown type to windows ( i.e. your linux partition )
> diskdoctor will barf some BS about your partition table needing to be
> "fixed" and ask you if you wanna "correct the problem" always remember
> to say "no".
I did say no. I had already run Norton's Scandisk and Disk Doctor earlier.
Disk Doctor gave me the message you are referring to almost immediately. I
cancelled out. Later, I tried to boot Mandrake 8.2. and I got the error
message I posted earlier so I came here to ask for advice.
I also tried Mandrake's Repair option and it said it couldn't fix my partion
table problem.
I tried to reinstall and I got to this screen:
Choose the petitions you want to format
hda 1{C:} (15MB, /mnt/win_Dos Fat16
hda 2 {D} (12 GB, /mnt/Win-2, Win98, Fat32, LBA-mapped
The options below are preselected
(400MB, /Journalised FS: Ext 3)
(50MB, Swap Linux Swap)
Could hda have been my bootloader? I only had 1 drive before I installed
Linux.
Any help you can give to staighten out this mess will be appreciated.
Eric
>
> Damian
>
>
> --
> Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?
>
>
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