When you re-installed Windows, the install probably wrote over the master boot record. I don't know of a way to save it or to be able to access Linux after having made that mistake. One solution for re-installing Linux though to install it to boot from a different directory. I don't remember quite how to do it, but I know that it's possible to set it up so that Linux will boot from somewhere else besides the master boot record. I'm sure that you can find a tutorial somewhere. And I believe if you install Mandrake it will ask during the install process where you want to boot from. Sorry I don't have more.
----- Original Message ----- From: Marguerite Carroll Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:08:05 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbies] Can't get to linux I had my hard drive recently partitioned and installed Linux on half of it. Unfortantly, I later had to reinstall windows and when I did, it made windows the active partition without a boot manager. So I am currently stuck on the windows side and can't seem to make Linux the active partition. I've been trying to read up on fdisk and Knoppix applications to help me with this, but I haven't really found any solid answers to what I should do without really messing my computer up. Help would be appreciated. Thanks. Maggie _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies Kenneth Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
