Thanks for the info. I've already went crazy deleting
paritions left and right. I thought I would be able
to just reinstall nt, but it goes thru to doing the
exhaustive examination of the hard drives and then
tells me I need to reboot and start over. I get to
here everytime. Then I've gone in with booting off a
win 98 disk and fdisked everything including my linux
paritions(swap was formatted swap). I did try using
the grub to boot to NT but there it would bring up the
NT boot loader and when I would click on one of the
choices it would say can't find NToskernel.exe (can't
remember the extention). So now I've deleted
everything on my drives other than one of the original
NT paritions. And I still get punted trying to
reinstall to a new parition. I am starting to think
it may be a ata66 issue due to the fact during the NT
install it is calling both the drives disk 0. I just
got to work, so when I go home I will disconnect one
of the drives and try again.
--- Steven Kinch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> > Not that I can't recover, but I would like to get
> some insight to
> > what I did wrong. Last night I decided to install
> mandrake 7.2 on my system
> > that has 2 hdds with 3 paritions on each. The last
> parition on both hdd's
> > was a software raid 0 from NT. The first 2
> paritions on each hdd had a copy
> > of NT 4 that I was duel booting between (acutally
> one was a backup copy
> > just in case). So I had 3G of free hdd space on
> the second hdd, with the
> > boot loader on the 1st hdd, ( so at worst I
> thought nothing would affect
> > the 1st hdd). So in this free space is where I
> mounted the swap and system
> > linux parition. And here is where I think I might
> of screwed up. I formated
> > the linux parition with ext2. From the install
> guide it said I would
> > eventually be given the choice to rewrite the mbr
> or if there was another
> > boot loader then you can choose to install some
> boot files to the first
> > sector of the boot parition. Then you can just add
> an entry in the boot
> > loader for linux. Well this step never came up, it
> went ahead and just
> > installed the lilo/grub. And from there linux is
> fine but I haven't been
> > able to get back into NT( and of course I spaced
> making a recovery disk) My
> > next step was just to reinstall NT back into the
> first parition on the
> > first hdd but basically NT wasn't able to work
> with my drives anymore to
> > reinstall NT. So here is where I need help, as far
> as I can tell I need to
> > go thru the linux install and wipe out everything
> on my drives, exit, then
> > reinstall NT then try reinstalling linux using
> some other file system than
> > ext2?
> I wouldn't have said so. Ext2 is clearly the
> right thing to put Linux on
> although the swap file is not usually ext2. I have
> heard about issues
> between NT4/2000 and Linux but I missed that lesson
> having always used the
> easier Windows (95,98 and ME). What you can do to
> get Windows back is sstart
> in DOS susing your WinNT boot disk and at the prompt
> type "fdisk /mbr" This
> should your old Master Boot Record back and you will
> get into NT4 because it
> takes over the system wherever possible.
>
> Then try getting on to your Linux Disk with the
> Linux Boot Disk and go to
> Drakeconf. Try using the Grub/lilo boot
> configuration tool there and tell it
> to install to HDA (first hard drive) for both
> systems. This ought to work.
>
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