You have to boot the machine with the Partition Magic diskette in the floppy
drive. Then when you get the A:\ prompt, type "pqmagict.exe" and hit enter.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Junge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] PartitionMagic erro
> thanks for anwsering, but how do i get to dos ? when the computer boots
up,
> it gives me a lilo with windows, linux, and floppy ( for loading linux ),
> and when i run windows, nothing happens but the error message from
> PartitionMagic
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pittman, Merle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 2:11 PM
> Subject: RE: [newbie] PartitionMagic erro
>
>
> >from dos type "fdisk /mbr"
> >
> >This will reset the wndows/dos partition
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Sam Junge [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 11:50 AM
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: [newbie] PartitionMagic erro
> >>
> >> I installed a Linux partition, then tried to delete it using
> >> PartitionMagic's delete partition option in windows 98. When the
computer
> >> booted up, the delete partition dos program came up, and i went through
> >> all the steps. The computer re-booted, and went to lilo again w/ linux
> >> stil as an option. This isn't the problem, though, because when i try
to
> >> run windows it goes into the delete partition dos program and tells me
> >> "could not delete linux partition. The operating system partition being
> >> deleted was not found." And every time i reboot and try to run windows,
> it
> >> gives me this window with clicking ok as the only option. ( when i
click
> >> ok, the system reboots ). ANY IDEAS? Im desperate, i can't get into
> >> windows 98 and i linux doesn't work anyways/
>
>
