(me->quite newb')
På Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:09:17 +0100, skrev Sjoerd Mulder
<newsREMOVE@sjoerdmulderANDTHIS.electronischepost.nlANDTHIS>:

> Well, that's what I thought... So I gave it a try, installed
> Mandrake....and....
>
> It works! No errors, no problems.

I've got almost the same case. Having debian on my laptop(dual boot with
WinXP, HDD 30Go) and beeing very happy with it, I ,decided to change
mandrake for debian on my tower(dual boot with WinXP, Hdd 160 Go) but it
ends with the error message from cfdisk:
Cfdisk sees only my NTFS partitions but neither my linux partitions nor my
free space.
This doesn't seems to be an issue for the mdk installer but is well a sign
of a problem on the partition table

> my partition table looked okay to me,
How could i check that mine is okay? I actually runned the mdk tool and
asked him to guess the partition table: this make the prosessor works 100%
(1 Go ram) and at the end the output is an error message and the
partitions are something much like what I see (by opening a shell and df)
when I try to install debian.

> "John Hasler" <jhasler@debian.org> wrote in message
> news:87d5xqxbob.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org...
...[vbcol=seagreen] 
I think that this is right, It means I must at least back up my disk :-)

I've been using the XP tool to come back to a previous installation
state(kind of recovery), could it be this that wrote change to the
partition table?

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