Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
> I would say; boot windows and use partition magic to resize, but it doesn't
> look like that's an option. The only thing I can think of, would be to boot
> your computer with your windows rescue disk and run fdisk from the prompt to
> delete your non-dos partitions and re-slice your drive to fit your needs.
> Then start over.
>
> Michael Holt
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffrey Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 9:31 PM
> Subject: [newbie] corrupt partition?
>
> >
> > Let me qualify this post by saying I am a total Linux newbie...3 days
> > experience (mostly bad). When installing Mandrake 7.0 I neglected to read
> > the brightly colored insert titled "IMPORTANT" and installed Linux over my
> > existing Win98 OS.
> >
> > Simple question...how do I get it back (Win98)?
> >
> > I appear to have 2 Linux partitions one that is 1.5 GB and another at 7.1
> > GB. Booting using a Win98 system disk and running fdisk indicates that I
> > have a 14MB partition that is FAT32.
> >
> > How can I resize my Linux partitions so that I can allocate enough HD
> space
> > to re-install Win98.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Jeff
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If he had access to partition magic he would also have access to the dos based
pqmagict.exe which is charecter based version of program. All he would need
then would be a systems diskette. I perfer this over the pqmagic program
because I have seen Windoze crash too many times... Version 4 or better does
resize of ext2 and linux swap partitions. There are other programs out there.
