[newbie] Installation troubles; DrakeX does not recognize my existing W 2000partition

[Martijn de Keizer]

Hi all,

Somehow the Mandrake 8.0 installation program does not recognize my existing
Windows 2000 partition.

That leaves me with the only option of installing Mandrake on the HD and
erasing WIn 2000 (which I really need for work). Why doesn`t the
installation program
properly recognize WIN 2000? Does it have to do with NTFS (which I use?)

Would partition magic make a difference?

Thnaks for any suggestions, Linux is great but looking at two unused install
CDroms really sucks.

Martijn