FYI... the only real difference between a Win98 boot/rescue disk and an original installtion disk is the original install disk had drivers to initialize both SCSI and a generic CD-Rom driver. The boot disk I believe only has CD-Rom and being bootable, with a very few utils copied to the floppy. HTH Jaguar Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sam....during the installation of Partition Magic you were > supposed to make a pair of floppies. Disc 1 of that pair is > self booting and asks for disc 2 during the boot process. I > assume that when you were prompted do do this step (making the > floppies) during your installation of Partition Magic you > refused/skipped the process. > > There are directions in a read.me type file on the CD of how to > make those very same floppies when you don't have a windows > machine to install Partition Magic on. You need to find these > directions and make the floppies and boot your system with them > which brings up a dos version of Partition Magic. > > Then using Partition Magic, you need to make the dos partition > ACTIVE. Window will not boot unless it is on the only ACTIVE > partition on the drive. Linux, however doesn't care one way or > another about ACTIVE partitions. Anyway then your windows > system should again be able to boot. > > If it still doesn't boot then you also need a windows boot > floppy with a copy of fdisk.com on it. After booting to dos > with the windows boot floppy, type fdisk /mbr after which > the windows system should finally boot. > > Good luck. > > Alan > > > > Sam Junge wrote: > > > > 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 ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
