my first step would be to fdisk from within Linux since MS fdisk cannot has major personality problems with logical ext2 partitions but we can skip this with the zero-fill and/or Partition Magic and/or other good partitioning software now i came accross the same MBR problem after a failed DOS 6.22 installation...(how i fumbled this one up - dont ask) not Fdisk, zero-fill not anything would help (not even the dreaded fdisk /mbr) your best is to find a low-lovel formater on www.simtel.net or www.google.com failing that... find an old 386/486/pentium that give the option to low-level format in the BIOS - thats what i did... and i just thought of this... do a "DESRUCTIVE" disk check... works wonders on win2krap just my little ramble... -munir > 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 > > ===== -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT GIT dpu- s:- a19 C++ UL P+ L+(++) E--- W+ N+ w(--) K? O-- M- V- PS+ PE-(--) Y-- PGP-(---) t 5+++ X R tv-- b+++ D++ DI++ G e+ h+() r- y+ UF++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/