My question is how do i get windows to skip the dos program PartitionMagic
???
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaguar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] PartitionMagic wont let me run windows]
> 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
>
>
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