Sounds strange to you too? It does to me, here\s what\s happening... I recently installed win2000 at the front of my drive, knowing it would mess my boot loader (grub) but expecting I could fix it, I have before. So I threw in FC3 disk one, got to the command line chrooted to /mnt/sysimage and ran grub/install hd0. Maybe that wasn\t a good idea after all... On rebooting it seemed to work when I booted into windows so I thought I\d try fc3 and rebooted. Grub Error 22, something about can\t find stage1-5. So, I put FC3 Disk1 in again and ran that - this time it refuses to mount the old system saying "no linux partitions found" - my blood pressure rises... I thought "that can\t be and threw in PartitionMagic - "partition Table error", So I tried Knoppix, it found two drives, one the win2000 partition and the other and unmountable, unrecognised section. It should have found about 7. So, I guessed that I\d somehow lost my partitions and went looking for a solution. Found TestDisk, got win2000 installed again - that being the only partition I could risk playing with. Ran TestDisk, great wee program, worked fine, found the 'deleted' partitions and restored them - windows could see the big fat32 partition with all my non-system files and things looked good. But then as I went through the process of getting grub working, same as above - it did the same thing again. So now I\m using gmails web interface and Knoppix and hoping someonw knows what's going on - I'm going to bed. Duncan
