Marc....you were supposed to have made a rescue diskette
(actually a pair of them) when you installed PM. Disc 1 of the
pair is bootable. You need to boot that diskette and then set
your original drive c: partition as bootable, then windows will
again call it drive c: and should be able to boot.
Alan
Marc Herms wrote:
>
> >Marc....What version of windows are you running? How is your
>
> Windows 98
>
> >bios set for booting, scsi or IDE? Dual booting from both scsi
> >& IDE drives may not work well, or at all, on some systems. How
> >was the bios set before you dedicated space on your IDE drives
> >to Linux?
>
> no idea. All worked fine until this morning, when I udated from Mandrake
> 6.1 to 7.0 !! Maybe because I chose "server" installation...?!
>
> > Do you have access to a full copy of Partition Magic
> >(4.0 or 5.0)?
>
> yes, full version, but 3.0 I think !
>
> > If so, one of the things I suspect might be wrong
> >on your system is the the bootable status of your bootable
> >windows partition may have inadvertantly gotten toggeled off.
> >I've never changed that, except with PM, so if you can, try it,
> >and read the docs for PM too, the info there is invaluable.
>
> yes, but HOW can I access partition Magic or Boot magic when I cannot boot
> to windows????
>
> marc
