Actually Larry, my experiences of this past weekend are proof positive
that no existing partition tables are necessary since mine didn't exist
when I reinstalled Mandrake on my hard disk. I still don't have a clear
idea what happened to them in the first place, but they were so badly
corrupted and mangled that diskdrake, partition magic, nor Presizer could
see them. They were gone...along with 3GB of data.
--
Mark
Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
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Surprisingly on Thu, 2 Nov 2000 Larry Marshall had this to say!
> > If I start the mandrake 7.1 install on a system with one ATA66 10.2Gb
> > Unformatted HD, will it format the disk when I get to diskdrake?
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> Personally I don't trust diskdrake but yes, it should partition and format
> your drive. It's said, however, that you need an existing partition table
> before Mandrake install will work. I can't say whether that's true or
> not.
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> cheers --- Larry
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