Hi Eric,

That's consoling.  I used the diskdrake to partion the drive. The first partion is Root / which acts
as the mount point for the other partitions.
The second is the Swap partition, the third is /usr , forth is /home.
I then created a windows partition on the rest of the drive or at least I thought I did.

This gets really messy now. Since then I tried to reinstall ME. I used fdisk and tried to
get rid of the linux partions/ .  I used a rescue disk I created on another computer with ME.
When the A:> prompt came up I type in fdisk / mbr then went back to try and reinstall ME
It's telling me it cannot create a temporary C:/ drive to install ME with. The disk format is
not recognized.
I tried a rescue disk I made during the Mandrake istall and now I get the message that there
is now operating system.
I think that's about it.  I appreciate any help

Jeff Greene

Eric Wertman wrote:

> Hello-
>
> Your drive is not toast.  How did you partition the drive?  Without knowing
> the specifics, you can at least use DOS fdisk to delete the non-dos
> partitions.  If you can explain a little more about what you did with the
> install I can give you more info.
>
> Eric Wertman
>
> > The error message I get when loading linux:
> > "VFS: Cannot open Root Device 16:01
> > Kernel Panic: VFS:Unable to mount Root Fs on 16:01"
> >
> > I've tried everything. including reinstalling windows,
> > rebooting with the emergencie boot disk, installing
> > different version of Linux, which did install but on
> > a partition after the first install. I can't get to
> > any to any kind of prompts so I can unistall.
> > Any suggestions or is my new 75gig ibm toast?
>
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