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Hi Jim, Thanks for the advice. I wound up reinstalling XP on the machine yesterday, but I'll save your message; it may be helpful if/when I reinstall Linux on the machine. I first tried running fixmbr and fixboot from the recovery console, but it seemed to make things worse (it wasn't finding ntldr), so I reinstalled. I also seem to have wiped out the recovery partition on the hard disk. I'm not sure how I did this, but I don't think it is a real partition. (I don't remember fdisk listing any extra partitions, and I read an account on a web page suggesting that it isn't a partition and that it is protected by the bios. So I'm guessing that fdisk was accessing the drive directly and bypassing the bios and the protection, but that is pure speculation.) In any case, IBM didn't package an XP cd or a recovery cd; they expect me to be able to recover from this hidden area on my drive that I erased. Of course, I would have known to be careful had I read the manual before trying to put Linux on the thing, but I'm still not sure what I should have done with fdisk to use as much space as I can without erasing the recovery info. -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- A better world is possible! http://www.kucinich.us
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