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Originally posted by danleff: Quote: Ahhh...Windows 2000 came out way before your video card. Bet that you have to install a Win 2000 driver from within Windows 2000 before putting the new card in. Yeah your right, I had to install the driver first before sticking in the card. I'm surprised it crashed it though, usually you get a basic 16 colour display with an 'unknown' device in the device manager....

Weyhey, finally all sorted (touch wood! lol) Many thanks once again and that other problem turned out to be Windows 2000 spitting it's dummy out at my new GFX card. Mandrake by contrast was fine with it! As soon as i've sorted a DVD player i'm going to have another go in light of the great help I have received here many thanks Adrian

Many thanks again people! What a great bunch you are Tried that utility and it now seems to be booting properly looking for the Windows partition. It crashes on load now, but I think this is unrelated, if I found out any different I will post on here Thanks again Adrian

Wow!!! Brilliant many many thanks guys, I was totally stumpted! I think your right, because the harddrive was brand new, so Mandrake had first go at writing the boot block! Awesome, i'll try it this evening. Many thanks again, i was really worried to be honest. How do I gain access to that tool in Madrake for editing the boot loader? Thanks

Originally posted by danleff: Quote: If you told Mandrake to take over the entire hard drive, then your hard drive is formatted at a Linux partition, that Windows can't identify. It sees no valid disk space to do an installation on. If this is the case, do you know what hard drive (make) that you have? There are a few solutions for you in this case. You need to format the hard drive back to fat32 for the Windows installer to be able to see the drive. Let us know if the whole hard drive was used for linux or not, then we can post a solution. Thanks for the reply I originally allowed Mandrake to use the whole drive as it's a new machine with no data, but I then wanted to bin the drive contents and start again with a fresh Windows 2000 install. I used the tools within the Windows 2000 setup tool to delete all the partitions and start again with a fresh f32 partition. At this point everything looked normal, files coping, Windoze making all the right noises. But on reboot, the machine say something like 'invalid partition information' or something along those lines, and won't boot. Aparently this is because Lilo has modded the MDR according to bits and pieces I have picked up from the net. At this point I try and reset the mdr using fdisk/mdr and then after that didn't work 'fixmdr' form the recovery console in Windows 2k. I thought there might be something wrong with the drive so then did another fresh installation of mandrake just to see, deleting the newly created Windows partitions, and hey presto the machine after the installation completes boots back up normally....so I concluded that Lilo has done something strange to the MDR. As I've actually manage to delete everything from it from a DOS level eg partitions and recreate as F32 drive 1 partition, but it fails to boot from it! Thanks again for your help

I have a real problem with my machine, I installed Mandrake 10.1 and it worked ok, but I wanted to take this off again and install Windows 2000 just to test my hardware for a bench mark on it's performance etc. On installing Windows 2k it informed me that it was going to modify the boot partition to allow Win2k to boot which was fine, I then deleted everything on the disk and repartitioned it with Window 2000 setup. So far so good everything normal at this point! But on reboot it comes up with something like 'Invalid Partition'; on browing the net apparently in most cases this can be fixed with fdisk /mbr from a dos prompt, but this didn't work nor did using 'fixmdr' from the recovery console..... Bit worried that the HD was knackered at this point I put Mandrake back on which worked fine! Ironically I was going to stick with Mandrake anyway after sorting a DVD drive as I'm fed up of doing the Amiga stylie disk swaping with my CD version. But the point is what has it done and how do I fix it? At face value it seems like a really dodgy dangerous piece of code which would be capable of essentially destroy a drive or at least limiting it use to a particular OS, I thought the MDR is supposed to be written to in a standard manor so dual boot OS can be used? I can't even find the LILO executable to do a lilo /u on..... Help!!!!!eeeeeekkkkkkkkk Thanks

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Apologies for those regular members who are for ever answering the 'same old questions' from newbies but....! I'm a techcie by trade with Windows etc so know a bit, but fancied a go with Linux as I am bored silly with Windows after using various incarnation of it over the last 10 years. I picked Mandrake because it looked nice and friendly. So far Mandrake 10.2 Linux the flavour i'm using is very impressive, but I am struggling with little bits of it.... Problem 1. Firstly i'm using a dial up modem, and having found out Wanadoo isn't compatible want an alternative ISP which doesn't charge 1.5p per minute evening rate! Has anyone got a safe Linux ISP on 1p per minute like Wanadoo etc etc ISPs? Problem 2. After installing Linux I decided to uninstall it and slap Windoze 2k back on just so I could see the performance of my new computer but (long story) was planning on switching back once i've brought a DVD drive to install Mandrake 10.1, i curently have the 3 CD edition which can be a pain disk swapping (reminds me of my floppy disk swapping days with the Amiga!!!). Anyway, I go to delete the disk and set the partitions up again in Windows 2k setup and it says the partition table already contains an OS and that it is going to mod it to allow Windows to boot. I say ok, it goes through copying data etc. on reboot the machine comes up with 'invalid partition table' or something along those lines. I've tried 'Fdisk /MBR' but this doesn't work, i've also tried this command using the Win2k console program 'fixmbr'. The only way it'll work again as a HD no matter what I seem to do is to reinstall Linux again?! I think it has hacked the MBR, but I don't know how to put it back to factory default? Any ides? Problem 3. I have Quake Point release for Linux, a x86.mun file but this won't execute under Mandrake 10.1? Any ideas? Many many thanks in advanced, because I'm lost