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Jim you've saved the day mate, thanks I got the windows boot sector restored, the rest can wait Thank you! Geoff Smith

Thanks guys Danleff, I dont have the PMagic CD, the software was installed. No I didn't make PM boot floppies, my machine doesn't even have a floppy drive. as far as I remember, I used the default and recommended location for the new logical partition, which was at the front of the extended partition. looks like this: |----NTFS-----| {|-new NTFS-| |linux swap| |linux|} where the first NTFS is the primary partition, the curly brackets denote the extended partition, the others being logical partitions thereof. I dont have my Mnadrake CDs here, I am on a ship off the coast Borneo for the next 3 weeks!!!! Surely there is a way to configure ther bootloader from the grub prompt, if not, it sounds like I'm up the creek no paddle etc etc...

Evening all, My system runs XP pro and Mandrake 9.1, dualboot with the grub bootloader. I recently used Partition magic to create a new partition (logical) for windows data on my drive. It was doing its thing, so I left the machine to its devices. When I came back, its in a screen with a "grub>" prompt. Apparently minimal BASH line editing is supported at this level. I can get into the BIOS setup, but cant do anything from there. have I got to reconfigure the bootloader now that I have a new partition? Anyone know how to do that? I cant get pst this grub prompt.... Cheers Irish Geoff skorchio@hotmail.com