I ran into this a little while ago. If you're going back to Windoze or dual-booting, boot using a win boot disk. Run "fdisk /mbr" then run regular fdisk and delete all partitions recreating them. Should be okay then. I myself ran into an issue yesterday with Partition Magic that said my partition table was corrupt. I submitted the report to PowerQuest, and I was told to turn the removable media settings to off in the bios. They were off, and I still ran into the problem. Completely stumped the techs there. Shawn Spencer Underground wrote: > > Has anyone had the pleasure of loading wincrap on a drive that previously > housed llinux? > I have had mild sucess with this. But I have a very stubborn WD that will > not forget the mbr of its previous life. I zero filled the drive and still > nothing. It shows the classic symptoms of a virus i.e. master boot record > modified ide drivers corrupt,,,,that sort of thing. But no virus found , at > least not at antivirus.com. Maybe I just need some better quality herb or > something, but I think lilo and win do not get along real nicely. > Incidentally, I had a simular situation on an NTFS drive. I was able to > repair the mbr and recover the data. But that was a different situation. > Still stemming from lilo and win. > > -Spencer Underground > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list