okay...this is what i would do....if you have your windows emergency startup
disk...
or perhaps a DOS boot disk....you could try this command
FDISK/MBR
I would first try this with your windows startup disk,
then if need be, try the DOS bootdisk....
this will bring your master boot record back to normal...
then uninstall partition magic...and just use mandrake's DISK DRUID...
Jon Deavers wrote:
> 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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