Re: help

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:35:47AM -0400, Ðåvìd J. Ðêl Vã||ë wrote:
>    Hi, I just recently downloaded red hat linux 9 and, I installed it the
>    first time in a black 3GB hard drive I have, everything went well but when
>    it was loading all it did was stay in a black screen with some green oks
>    and the last thing said was, updating something about hardware, now, I ran
>    setup again and deleted all the partitions manually and created new ones,
>    and then some error came up about the swap file partition being
>    inconsistent, I supposed I had to format the partitions, but it didn't
>    give me that option in the setup, I tried doing it manually with the
>    mke2fs command but it can't read the partitions and now I come back to
>    windows and I can't reformat my HD and it says it has 700GB of space. What
>    can i do to install linux again or to get my HD back to work with windows
>    if i can't install linux? Thanks

What made you decide to send an email here?

A start might be to get a Parted bootdisk, and print out & attach the
partition tables.

Cheers,
Andrew