What were the symptoms when starting Win98? Could you start it and it
was flakey or did it fail to boot? 

Regarding the 4Gb, it's probably formatted for Linux which Windows
doesn't recognise. If you do not want to persist with Mandrake,
initialise it using fdisk to some windows compliant file system. eg FAT

Sorry to hear you were unsuccessful. I've installed Mandrake dual-boot
several times with success so I guess thats why they say YMMV (your
mileage may vary). Slug runs (fairly) regular install fests where
experienced linux people can help you do the install. 

Hope this helps.

Stuart

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 15:33, Paul Maloney wrote:
> Hi all,
> Well I loaded Mandrake 8.2 and guess what it crashed my whole system. It was to be a 
>dual boot sys and Mandrake installed OK but it crashed my windows sys to hell and now 
>I have lost 4gb of hard drive that I cannot find. I am trying to reinstall win 98 
>again but it will only give me 2gb out of the 6 any advice will be greatfully 
>accepted.
> Paul.
> 


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