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Mandrake was a fatal mistake

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creedon:
If you purchased your hard drive new, you should have the floppy with the manufacturers software on it; use that to format & partition, it should get you back to a bare drive.  If you DON'T have the software floppy for your drive, go to the manufacturers website; they'll have the utility you need, but make REAL SURE you get the RIGHT utility; if you use the wrong one, you could perminantly damage your drive.
Once you use the right utility, you'll be able to re-install (you've got to be really sick of that by now) without any problems.

Ice-9:
Okay, a quick update on things and a little explanation about my hard drives for Calum  ;)
First drive is a 40GB IBM, 15GB Fat32 for Win2K and 25GB Fat32 for data.
Second drive is a WD 80GB, 40GB NTFS for Win data and 40GB for Linux to install on.
(This is the setup I used for my first 2 installs which went great).
So, this morning I fdisk-ed everything using dos-fdisk.
Now I just set up the same partitioning, finished instaling Win2K in the first partition and formatting the 40GB NTFS partition as I type.

Next thing I will do is install Linux again.
And you're soooooo right, I'm sick of installing at the moment, must have installed like 15 or 16 OSes by now  
So if Suse refuses to work again, I'll try and edit my lilo.conf again and if I can't get it to work I'll give Redhat a try.
Thanks all for the help, if everything works out I'll be back with Mozilla on Linux  ;)

Ice-9:
And here I am, back with Mozilla in Linux  
Installed without a glitch but had the ever annoying "NTLDR is missing", updated Lilo.conf as for some strange reason windows was listed as hdb1 where it should've been hda1 - this didn't happen the first times????
Rebooted and "BAM" there was that ugly Windows boot screen  
Again, thanks all for the help and tips.

voidmain:
For large drives it is best if you create a small "/boot" partition (20-50MB) at the beginning of your drive.  You can put the main filesystem(s) at the end of the drive but put /boot up front which is where the boot loader and kernel will go at install time.  Some boot loaders have problems if the kernel is located at cylinder 1024 or higher.

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