Sam....during the installation of Partition Magic you were
supposed to make a pair of floppies. Disc 1 of that pair is
self booting and asks for disc 2 during the boot process. I
assume that when you were prompted do do this step (making the
floppies) during your installation of Partition Magic you
refused/skipped the process.
There are directions in a read.me type file on the CD of how to
make those very same floppies when you don't have a windows
machine to install Partition Magic on. You need to find these
directions and make the floppies and boot your system with them
which brings up a dos version of Partition Magic.
Then using Partition Magic, you need to make the dos partition
ACTIVE. Window will not boot unless it is on the only ACTIVE
partition on the drive. Linux, however doesn't care one way or
another about ACTIVE partitions. Anyway then your windows
system should again be able to boot.
If it still doesn't boot then you also need a windows boot
floppy with a copy of fdisk.com on it. After booting to dos
with the windows boot floppy, type fdisk /mbr after which
the windows system should finally boot.
Good luck.
Alan
> Sam Junge wrote:
>
> Sorry for making this so long, but I wanted to make sure I
> included
> all the details, so please take the time to read it :
> I bought Mandrake Linux 7.0, which came with a version of
> PartitionMagic as part of the "extra's" cd. I installed
> Partition and BootMagic on my NEW Windows 98 computer, then
> installed Linux. I felt I
> did not do the best job of installing Linux, so I decided to
> delete the
> partition I created. There was an option in the PartitionMagic
> folder
> to start a dos program that would delete my Linux partition. I
> did so,
> and when the computer re-booted the program came up, and I
> followed the
> directions to delete the partition. I assumed it had worked,
> but when
> the computer came up again, the partition was deleted but it
> would go
> into that same PartitionMagic dos program and give me a window
> to click
> ok that said "The Linux Parititon could not be deleted. That
> operating
> system partition was not found." When I click ok it reboots
> and does
> the same thing. WHAT SHOULD I DO???? I tried getting fdisk,
> autoexec.bat and a few other things from a different win98
> computer and
> putting them on a disk. I also did a sys a: from another
> computer onto that disk and put them onto my new computer.
> This at leasts puts me at a dos prompt. I tried typing
> fdisk/mbr at the c and the a prompts, but the computer either
> doesn't recognize them or it doesn't change anything. There is
> no windows directory at c, so I can't really run anything.
> People have told me to get a win98 boot disk, but I don't have
> one / know how to make one. What should I do ??? I can't run
> windows, so I am really frustrated. If you've had this problem
> before,
> please give me a detailed solution.
> THANKS, Sam
