FIPS worked well for me when I was repartitioning my meager 700MB drive on
my laptop to accept "Peanut" Linux. As I recall, it was pretty straight
forward. The key to not loosing DO$ information is to scandisk and defrag
(to move everything to the start of the partition), then IMMEDIATELY reboot
with the floppy and use FIPS before anything gets written to the end of the
partition.
-----Original Message-----
From: Xavier Chitnis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 5:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] FAT partitions
Hi,
I am attempting my first installation of Mandrake 7.1 and have hit a
problem. I burned the ISO files to CD, and boot from the installation CD. I
am asked to select my language etc. However, when I get to the disk
partition stage, it says my partition table is too corrupted to be read. If
I select Automatic partitioning, it doesn't seem to realise there is a FAT
partition that needs to be resized. I have run disk defragmenter and
scandisk prior to attempting installation.
I am trying to install onto a PC with Windows 98SE, and it is a 10Gb hard
drive. Would I be better to try to resize the partition using something like
fips (not that I've ever used it...)?
I would be very grateful for any advice or suggestions
Xavier
