On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:03:13AM -0600, ktb wrote: > "Allan M. Wind" wrote: > > > > On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: > > > > > I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to partition the > > > HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on > > > it. I tried using fdisk under "dos" but it wouldn't let me delete the > > > current partition so I used the Slink installation disk and cfdisk to > > > partition my HD. I cut the disk in half and added one partition "Win95 > > > FAT32 (LBA)" which was what it was before except that it took up the > > > whole disk. I marked it as bootable. I then attempted to install W98 > > > and got the message "no HD found." I went into the bios setup and the > > > disk can't be detected. I switched it to "auto" but no improvement. I > > > used the Slink installation cd again and found I get the message "FATAL > > > ERROR: Cannot read disk drive Press any key to exit fdisk." I have no > > > installation disks for this HD. It is the HD that came with the > > > system. What the heck do I do now? > > > > You did use something to resize that win98 partition with besides > > cfdisk, right? > > No I didn't.
Ouch. Did you have anything on the disk initially, or not? The way I read your post (portions deleted), you didn't. If you did, you're fairly much hosed, though it's possible to recover a partition table from memory (yours, not the computer's). I've done this. It's an exhilarating experience. If you didn't, I'd boot a Linux distro (probably a micro distro like Tom's Root/Boot or Linuxcares BBC), and create something like: /dev/hda1: Win98 ~1.5 - 2 GB /dev/hda2: Linux / (30 - 100 MB) /dev/hda3: linux swap (1* memsize, to 128 MB) /dev/hda3: Extended /dev/hda4: /var 200-500 MB /dev/hda6: /usr 2+ GB /dev/hda7: /home ++ (I'm a fan of partitions <g> -- and actually have more on my home system, though it has three fixed disks ) You should locate a bootable DOS floppy and try to access the hard drive at this point. You can then install an mbr (DOS: FDISK /MBR), install Windows, install Linux, install LILO, and add a boot stanza for Windows. See the various multiboot HOWTOs. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? SAS for Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html Mailing list: "subscribe sas-linux" to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]