Did you try creating a win98 boot disk, booting from it, and at the
prompt enter fdisk/mbr to see if that fixes the partition table?
condeuser wrote:
>
> Hi penguinistas,
>
> Not sure if this is a Linux or Windoze problem. Thoe,I suspect,the user
> needs a thorough debugging.
>
> Recently installed Mandrake 6.1 dualboot with Win 95 on an IBM deskstar 13.5
> Gb(new)
> disk- 2.5 for 95 and 4, I think, for Linux. .All seemed fine and bigfun
> seemed assured with trying to coming to terms with Linux.
>
> Then I had the opportunity to update to Win 98 (it seems a bit more stable)
> and I did a clean install and after 2 days of installing programmes and
> service packs I tried to boot into Linux without result. Linux will not
> even install as it thinks the whole disk is Fat32;thoe 98 still thinks its
> only 2.5 in size. I ran disk doctor from Norton Utilities 4 and it finds an
> error in the mbr which it tries and fails to correct. Unfortunately the
> Partition-It I have does not work with disks larger then 8 Gb's so I'm at a
> loss.
>
> Is their anything I can try before wiping the disk and starting afresh with
> hours and hours reinstalling as,doubtless,my well deserved reward.
>
> Thanks
>
> Conor
