I'm not quite sure your win-partition is gone.
If your LM-setup past the point where the boot disk has been made, use this,
else you could retry the Linux-install disk upto the point where you can use
fdisk.
It will probably show your partition as a type '82' (Linux Native).
You can change your partition here to type 'b' or 'c' (FAT32).
After that you should be able to reboot with your Win bootdisk and save your
data.
>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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