Mandrake Linux 9.1 Boot problems

[mack]

I made a boot disk with Windows XP Pro (on this comp) and it wasn't on it.

 

[mack]

I get the following error:

Invalid media type reading drive C:
Aport, Retry, Fail?

When I use a Windows 98 disk.

 

[Lostman]

That's no good. My Win98 disk (hate the OS, love the boot disk) has it.

I'm sure you can d/l a win98 boot disk. I'm on a 2k rig now and it doesn't have that file on it.

 

[mack]

The sys.com exists, but it's not reading drive C...

I don't know why its not reading my C: drive... I might just format.

 

[Lostman]

I remember when I first installed Mdk 8 a while back. It corrupted the hell out of my win partition.

But this last time when I put in 9.1 and put the bootloader at the beginning of the drive everything went smooth.

Sounds like a re-install is your best bet unless someone else has another idea.

 

[mack]

Yes, I'm deciding if I should format or fix it.. and fixing it isn't working so I'm formatting

*hits enter*

Thanks for your help!

 

[ekÆsine]

becuase dos cannot read from NTFS. where did you hear that copying sys.com would fix it, it makes no sense at all to me.

 

[Lostman]

Where did you get that he was running NTFS? I looked back and couldn't see it.

 

[mack]

Please don't argue. It's my fault. I'm using NTFS.

It's alright, I formatted and everything is actually better then what it was! Thanks for your help.

 

[Lostman]

Wasn't arguing, just didn't see it. Wanted to make sure my glasses still worked.