----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 4:45
AM
Subject: [newbie] PartitionMagic won't
let me run windows
Sorry for making this so long, but I wanted to make sure I
included
all the details, so please take the time to read it :
I
bought Mandrake Linux 7.0, which came with a version of
PartitionMagic as
part of the "extra's" cd. I installed Partition and BootMagic on my NEW
Windows 98 computer, then installed Linux. I felt I
did not do the best job
of installing Linux, so I decided to delete the
partition I created. There
was an option in the PartitionMagic folder
to start a dos program that
would delete my Linux partition. I did so,
and when the computer re-booted
the program came up, and I followed the
directions to delete the
partition. I assumed it had worked, but when
the computer came up
again, the partition was deleted but it would go
into that same
PartitionMagic dos program and give me a window to click
ok that said "The
Linux Parititon could not be deleted. That operating
system partition was
not found." When I click ok it reboots and does
the same thing. WHAT SHOULD
I DO???? I tried getting fdisk, autoexec.bat and a few other things from a
different win98 computer and
putting them on a disk. I also did a sys a:
from another computer onto that disk and put them onto my new computer. This
at leasts puts me at a dos prompt. I tried typing fdisk/mbr at the c and the a
prompts, but the computer either doesn't recognize them or it doesn't change
anything. There is no windows directory at c, so I can't really run anything.
People have told me to get a win98 boot disk, but I don't have one / know how
to make one. What should I do ??? I can't run
windows, so I am really
frustrated. If you've had this problem before,
please give me a detailed
solution.
THANKS, Sam