Try reburning you copy again... I've had that problem once before. the next
time i installed it worked fine. also, first you might want to grab a disk
manager. use it to delete that partition. i.e. maxblast, ontrac, or western
digital, fujitsu. if that dont cure it, then reburn.
Xavier Chitnis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am attempting my first installation of Mandrake 7.1 and have hit a
> problem. I burned the ISO files to CD, and boot from the installation CD. I
> am asked to select my language etc. However, when I get to the disk
> partition stage, it says my partition table is too corrupted to be read. If
> I select Automatic partitioning, it doesn't seem to realise there is a FAT
> partition that needs to be resized. I have run disk defragmenter and
> scandisk prior to attempting installation.
>
> I am trying to install onto a PC with Windows 98SE, and it is a 10Gb hard
> drive. Would I be better to try to resize the partition using something like
> fips (not that I've ever used it...)?
>
> I would be very grateful for any advice or suggestions
>
> Xavier
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