Below is a copy of a problem that I sent to the tech support at Linuxcare. I
figured someone here might know something to help and be able to answer
sooner. Please help me out here. By the way, I also went to PowerQuest.com
(Partition Magic's developers) and checked out their help files and asked
them what to do. They had a solution but it doesn't work on my machine
(something about not having a smartdrv.exe file). I am so lost here and will
appreciate any suggestions.
I've just bought McMillan's The Complete Linux Operating System 6.5
My computer has an AMD-K6 3D processor and 32 megs of ram a 6.2 gig
hard drive and is made by Proteva. The OS that came with this package is
Linux, distribution Mandrake 6.1. My audio card is a SoundBlaster
compatible and my vid card is just standard (don't know specs, 2 megs of
vidram I think...). If you need any info that would be on the system
resource report I have a print out that I did right before I destroyed my
computer. Here goes: the package comes with a version of Partition Magic and
while that was running I think I pushed ESC or something because it looked
like it was frozen. This was at about 50% complete I think. Then it shuts
off and the machine restarts. It comes up to the screen asking if I want
safe mode or command line only and all of those things and I thought this
was normal so I inserted the installation CD and restarted. When I used Disk
Druid I
realized something was wrong because it didn't acknowledge the Linux
native and swap partitions I thought I had created with Partition Magic. So
I restarted and ejected the CD and got back to the query screen as to which
way I wanted to load. SO I chose safe mode (and later all of the other
possibilities to load Windows 98) and every time it said "Windows protection
error. You need to restart your computer/ Press a key to continue..." so I
do and it happens again on every option except "safe mode and command prompt
only" or "command prompt only". The only thing is I don't know what to do
about only being in the command prompt. Please help me or my mother will
kill me.
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