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Date: | Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:43:04 -0800 |
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Gareth,
Did you by chance install LILO during the Linux install? If you did, your
partition table has been damaged for use under Win2k. This happened to me -
I knew from the warnings that LILO should not be installed, but I gave a
wrong command and it was installed :(
If this is what happened to you, there is hope of recovery, but it will take
some patching of the partition table. I don't know of any automated method,
but I did fix it manually using a product called HexWorkshop. For a
description of the partition table structure, look at my page:
http://columbia.yosemite.cc.ca.us/shkabarap/tutorials/partition_table.htm
For additional help in fixing the Win2k partition, look at the Microsoft
knowledge base for help with NTFS partitions. I don't have an article at
hand to refer you to, but let me know if you need help and I will find it.
Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
Its a 30g drive, so I installed win2k on a 20g partition, and installed a
few programs and such before installing linux. The Linux install went
great, until it rebooted and I got an invalid partition table message.
Win2k weas setup with FAT32, and i was trying out a Corel Linux cd a friend
gave me. Any ideas? Will booting thru a '98 rescue disk and fdisk the
drive fix this?
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