Sam
You need to copy fdisk.exe to the floppy from your
windows\command directory. You are trying to run a
program that is not in the listed path. After you have
that program on the floppy run fdisk /mbr it should
take care of the problem.
Pat
--- BrianGreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you have the PQmagic floppy?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sam Junge
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 11:03 AM
> Subject: [newbie] Severe PartitionMagic Error,
> please read
>
>
> Here is my problem, please take the time to read it
> :
>
> I recently installed partition and boot magic on
> my windows 98 computer
> in preparation to install mandrake Linux 7.0. I
> installed Linux, but felt I
> did not do a good enough job so i decided to delete
> the partition. When I
> got to Windows, I used the delete Linux partition
> option that PartitionMagic
> gave me. When the computer rebooted, I went through
> the steps of the dos
> delete linux partition program, and it seemed as
> though it had worked. When
> the computer re-booted, Lilo gave me the same three
> options as usual :
> windows, linux, and floppy. Whether or not linux
> should still be listed as
> an option or whether I should have entered lilo at
> all is a different
> question, because when i typed linux just in case,
> it doesn't work anyways.
> ( the floppy option is also not the problem ) My
> real problem is that when i
> type in "windows" the computer goes to the
> partitionMagic dos program that
> says "the Linux partition could not be deleted. That
> operating system
> partition to be deleted was not found." This program
> gives me only the
> option to click ok, and when i do so, the computer
> reboots and when i type
> windows again under lilo, the same problem occurs. I
> have heard several
> responses, none of which I have gotten to work.
> I made a boot disk on my other windows computer
> ( typing sys a: at dos
> prompt at other computer ). I then put the disk into
> the computer and it
> booted up into a dos prompt. People told me to type
> fdisk /mbr, which i did
> at both the a and the c prompt, but neither
> recognized it. I also typed win
> / win98 / windows, but that didn't work either.
> I can't get back into my computer ( windows ),
> so please try to solve my
> problem.
> THANKS A MILLION, me
>
>
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