I'm not sure if I answered this one, but here goes: Boot using your install
disk for Mandrake, when it asks what kind of install you want to do, tell it
'custom'. When it gets to the part where you select partitions, put
everything under "/" - without the quotes. It also gives the option of
resizing, deleting or adding partitions (although you won't be able to
create Windows partitions). You should be able to delete everything and add
one small root partition (/), when you boot next time with your Windows
rescue disk, you can then use fdisk to delete that partition.
Good luck, Michael Holt
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 6:48 AM
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]>
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> 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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