Glad that made sense to you. It's what I would have "tried" to do first. :-)
I do have a question for you? My experiences in working with recovering/reinstalling from recovery disks has been mixed and without a lot of grief (read this as profanity at its best!) By any chance, have you ever tried to reload Win 2K from the CD 'without' invoking the automation gods that seem to want to do it their own way? T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Flux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE *blinkblink* ^ That's me trying to figure out why I forgot about Win2k and Fat32. I actually intended to do just that, but somehow the notion left my mind. Well, looks like I'm starting over once again! Isn't this what tinkering is all about? HA! Thanks, Technoslick for that jog to the memory. -Lawrence 10/31/2002 9:18:41 AM, "Technoslick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Flux, > >My only comment on your predicument is that I can't see why you are >"downgrading" to Win 98 SE? Did you have a problem with Win 2K that makes >you want to go to a less robust and older version? Win 2K can be reloaded >with a FAT32 partition instead of NTFS. As long as you own the 'better' >version of Windows and it's not giving you any problems, I wouldn't load Win >98 SE just to get the FAT32 and sharing between the two O/S's. > >My take on this. Good luck in whatever you do. > >T > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Flux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:59 AM >Subject: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE > > >Okay, this definitely fits in the newbie catagory... > >I've been playing around with my dual-boot Win2k/ML9 install, when it >finally got to me that I can't really interact >with the Windows partition, due to the NT file system. So, I decided to >downgrade the Windows install to Win98SE. >Now, what makes this a newbie issue is that fact that I blindly deleted the >first partition on the drive, which >happened to have both the Win2k install and the boot loader redirectory, so >now I can't boot into Windows (duh) NOR >Linux! (I understand that's not entirely true, but for newbie purposes >we'll presume that it is) > >So, in perfect newbie fashion, I decided to pop in my Compaq Evo N150 >recovery disc and completely start ALL OVER >AGAIN! But here's the question: If this "recovery" forced me to reformat >the entire drive and make the whole thing >one partition, how am I supposed to install Linux on it for a dual-boot? >Maybe I should ask "WHERE" am I supposed >to install Linux? > >Please help, because I'm sure to cause myself more pain hashing through it >myself... > >-Lawrence > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >---- > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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