Have you a backup of the hard drive?
Have you a Windows installation CD?
Have you got a Windows boot disk?
If the answer to all three questions is yes, then you might consider a
complete format and reinstallation, I have not used Partition Magic but
have always had success using Ranish Partition Manager which is probably
very similar.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Deavers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 1:32 AM
Subject: [newbie] Windows Protection?
> Below is a copy of a problem that I sent to the tech support at Linuxcare.
I
> figured someone here might know something to help and be able to answer
> sooner. Please help me out here. By the way, I also went to PowerQuest.com
> (Partition Magic's developers) and checked out their help files and asked
> them what to do. They had a solution but it doesn't work on my machine
> (something about not having a smartdrv.exe file). I am so lost here and
will
> appreciate any suggestions.
>
> I've just bought McMillan's The Complete Linux Operating System 6.5
> My computer has an AMD-K6 3D processor and 32 megs of ram a 6.2 gig
> hard drive and is made by Proteva. The OS that came with this package is
> Linux, distribution Mandrake 6.1. My audio card is a SoundBlaster
> compatible and my vid card is just standard (don't know specs, 2 megs of
> vidram I think...). If you need any info that would be on the system
> resource report I have a print out that I did right before I destroyed my
> computer. Here goes: the package comes with a version of Partition Magic
and
> while that was running I think I pushed ESC or something because it looked
> like it was frozen. This was at about 50% complete I think. Then it shuts
> off and the machine restarts. It comes up to the screen asking if I want
> safe mode or command line only and all of those things and I thought this
> was normal so I inserted the installation CD and restarted. When I used
Disk
> Druid I
> realized something was wrong because it didn't acknowledge the Linux
> native and swap partitions I thought I had created with Partition Magic.
So
> I restarted and ejected the CD and got back to the query screen as to
which
> way I wanted to load. SO I chose safe mode (and later all of the other
> possibilities to load Windows 98) and every time it said "Windows
protection
> error. You need to restart your computer/ Press a key to continue..." so I
> do and it happens again on every option except "safe mode and command
prompt
> only" or "command prompt only". The only thing is I don't know what to do
> about only being in the command prompt. Please help me or my mother will
> kill me.
>
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