It sounds like it overrode your winblows partition. Ouch!
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From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 1:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] partition info destruction
That partition is gone. You should never have told it to install there.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 6:34 PM
Subject: [newbie] partition info destruction
> Ok, this is what happened...
>
> I was running Windows, and bought Linux-Mandrake 7.2.
> I installed it with the custom option, as i had already installed 7.1 a
> couple of times. when it got to the point to decide how to install it on
my
> harddrive, i chose the option "install to free space on Windows", which i
> thought would create the necessary partitions, and 'steal' the space from
> windows. Beforehand i had defragmented windows.
> when i clicked into the "install to free space on Windows" option, the
> system froze.(AI could move the mouse, but the system would not respond to
the
> mouse or the keyboard navigation of the options... I proceeded to press
> <ctrl><alt><del>.
> the system rebooted, but instead of booting normally it asked for me to
> enter the location of my command.com file, i entred c:\windows\command.com
but
> to no avail. When i booted with my win 98 boot disc it told me that it had
> not found a valid FAT16 or FAT32 partition on my drive, and that i should
> use fdisk to make one. i used fdisk and it told me that there was the
windows
> partition (i could tell because of the size), but that it was a non-DOS
> partition. I tried using norton disc doctor, but that didn't help because
it
> could not see a drive to examine...
> I desperately need help, because i've got important stuff on the windows
> partition...
> I started Lnx-mdk 7.2 setup again, just to see what the partitions looked
> like etc. but the 'only' option of how to install was to use all the space
> (ie. no option to use the space that was not being used by windows - win
does
> not use all the space on my harddrive; the rest is empty)
> I know this is not exactly a linux question, but my guess is that some of
> you will also know something about windows.
>
> Thanx a lot...
>
> creaktop
>
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