Oliver Stieber wrote:
> last time that happened to me, i use notron disk edit (de) and edited the
> partition table myself.
> evrything has been fine since
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeffrey Grimes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 03 April 2000 14:49
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] corrupt partition?
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: "Mike & Tracy Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 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
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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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The FDISK that comes with M$ anything can't deal with the thought that you
might have a non M$ logical partition. Use the fdisk in linux.
