Re: [newbie] corrupt partition?
I tried that, fdisk will not delete the partition that linux resides in as it says there are logical drives in the extended partition and therefore cannot delete it. When I use the fdisk option to delete logical drives in the extended partition it says that there are none. Jeff Original Message Follows From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] corrupt partition? Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:07:03 -0700 I would say; boot windows and use partition magic to resize, but it doesn't look like that's an option. The only thing I can think of, would be to boot your computer with your windows rescue disk and run fdisk from the prompt to delete your non-dos partitions and re-slice your drive to fit your needs. Then start over. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: [newbie] corrupt partition? Let me qualify this post by saying I am a total Linux newbie...3 days experience (mostly bad). When installing Mandrake 7.0 I neglected to read the brightly colored insert titled "IMPORTANT" and installed Linux over my existing Win98 OS. Simple question...how do I get it back (Win98)? I appear to have 2 Linux partitions one that is 1.5 GB and another at 7.1 GB. Booting using a Win98 system disk and running fdisk indicates that I have a 14MB partition that is FAT32. How can I resize my Linux partitions so that I can allocate enough HD space to re-install Win98. TIA Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] corrupt partition?
I tried that, fdisk will not delete the partition that linux resides in as it says there are logical drives in the extended partition and therefore cannot delete it. When I use the fdisk option to delete logical drives in the extended partition it says that there are none. Jeff Original Message Follows From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] corrupt partition? Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:07:03 -0700 I would say; boot windows and use partition magic to resize, but it doesn't look like that's an option. The only thing I can think of, would be to boot your computer with your windows rescue disk and run fdisk from the prompt to delete your non-dos partitions and re-slice your drive to fit your needs. Then start over. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: [newbie] corrupt partition? Let me qualify this post by saying I am a total Linux newbie...3 days experience (mostly bad). When installing Mandrake 7.0 I neglected to read the brightly colored insert titled "IMPORTANT" and installed Linux over my existing Win98 OS. Simple question...how do I get it back (Win98)? I appear to have 2 Linux partitions one that is 1.5 GB and another at 7.1 GB. Booting using a Win98 system disk and running fdisk indicates that I have a 14MB partition that is FAT32. How can I resize my Linux partitions so that I can allocate enough HD space to re-install Win98. TIA Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] corrupt partition?
Let me qualify this post by saying I am a total Linux newbie...3 days experience (mostly bad). When installing Mandrake 7.0 I neglected to read the brightly colored insert titled "IMPORTANT" and installed Linux over my existing Win98 OS. Simple question...how do I get it back (Win98)? I appear to have 2 Linux partitions one that is 1.5 GB and another at 7.1 GB. Booting using a Win98 system disk and running fdisk indicates that I have a 14MB partition that is FAT32. How can I resize my Linux partitions so that I can allocate enough HD space to re-install Win98. TIA Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
