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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