If nothing works ...try the nt disk partitionner .. it is great!! Good Luck
-----Original Message-----
From: David Hester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 4:13 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] corrupt partition?
>use dos ver 6.22 fdisk to knock out linux partions. if that won't do it you
>will need to rerun the linux version..not fdisk.. and knock it out..
>I had the same problem.. I just reran setup and when I got to the part to
>setup partions I just deleted em and then rebooted...
>then I booted with dos and ran fdisk to reallocate the partitions.
>
>hope it helps.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeffrey Grimes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 9:49 AM
>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
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>----- 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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