I never backed up my hd, so i have like 350 mp3's and a bunch of other
irreplaceable stuf. .
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eunice Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 5:15 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error
> Sam,I'm surprised you have't said, 'the hell with it!" and just reformat
> your hard drive. Start out with a clean slate, install Win 98, make a boot
> floppy for Partition Magic (BTW, don't use BOOT MAGIC); make another
primary
> partition for Linux and install Linux. You may want to boot to Linux using
a
> boot floppy (you can make one of these during the installation, just
before
> you configure LILO). Also you don't have to install LILO, when asked if
you
> want to use LILO just say NO. Then you'll be able to boot Win98 by default
> and if you want Linux ,just boot with the floppy.
> GOOD LUCK
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sam Junge
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 10:06 AM
> Subject: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error
>
>
> As I've mentioned before, I've been having problems with PartitionMagic. I
> installed PartitionMagic, then mandrake linux 7, then decided to delete
the
> linux partition. No longer does my computer load lilo, or list linux as a
> partition, but PartitionMagic still loads as a dos program when the
computer
> starts up and tells me "That linux partition could not be deleted. The
> operating system partition being deleted was not found." The only option
it
> gives me is to click ok, which shuts down the computer and repeats the
> process.
> I tried going to my other computer and doing a sys a:, and also
putting
> fdisk from my other computer onto the disk. I then put this disk in the
> computer that wouldn't load windows, and it gave me an a prompt. I tried
> typing fdisk /mbr, but it didn't make a difference for the next time i
> booted the computer. What can I do?
> Please give me a detailed enough anwser because I've tried to solve
this
> problem numerous ways.
>
>
