I tried that, fdisk will not delete the partition that linux resides in as
it says there are logical drives in the extended partition and therefore
cannot delete it. When I use the fdisk option to delete logical drives in
the extended partition it says that there are none.
Jeff
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From: "Mike & Tracy Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [newbie] corrupt partition?
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:07:03 -0700
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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From: "Jeffrey Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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