Problem one to be expected is ” I cannot Boot Linux Anymore”. It seems that you have successfully installed the Linux distro of your choice. Then one fine day you may a change to your Windows OS- Windows 09 , XP or Vista / System 7/ Suddenly Linux no longer seems to boot and indeed stops working. You no longer see the lilo boot prompt. so you can no longer specify that indeed you wan to boot Linux.

What to do ? It seems that various operating systems tend to think that they are the only ones in the universe. It not unlike media centers in Windows that when newly installed take over and make themselves l”King” the “default” setup.

Therefore when the new Operating System is installed they write things to the area of the system or specifically the hard drive – or now sometimes solid state “hard drives”, called the Master Boot Record (MBR). This process overlays and overwrites the basic Linux boot loader (called LILO) and stops you dead in your tracks from booting Linux.

Overall the best correction is a good prevention . Make an emergency floppy or usb stick as a boot disk.

Keep this handy, when you do update or change your system ( or during any other significant event in your “Linux career” , such as repartitioning your disks or rebuilding your kernel.

Thus if you make a mistake then you can boot with your boot device – be it floppy or usb stick , or cd / dvd.

Its not unlike safe mode in Windows.

Then when you have rebooted your system using your boot device , simply log on as “root”, then type LILO on the command line. This will repair the MBR ( Master Boot Record) reinstalling Lilo.

You are now off to the races !!!

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Windows 98SE

• FAT32 operates properly with partition <127 GB.
• FDISK and FORMAT function properly, but will display an incorrect disk size on the screen.
• Limited to partitions <127 GB

Windows Me

• FAT32 partitions operate properly as large as the drive’s total capacity
• FDISK and FORMAT function properly, but will display an incorrect disk size on the screen.
• Defrag works properly on a disk of any size. Do not Scan Disk

Windows 2000, XP

• Fat 32 and NTFS partitions operate properly as large as the drive’s total capacity.
• NTFS partitions as large as the dive’s total capacity can be formatted properly under Windows 2000 and XP. Fat 32 partitions greater that 32 GB cannot be formatted under Windows 2000/XP.
• Defrag works properly on a disk of any size. Do not use Scan Disk.
• Operates properly. Note: May take a long time
• Disk Management can create NTFS partitions as large as the drive’s total capacity. Disk Management cannot create FAT 32 part.

Note 1: On disks larger than 64 GB running Windows 98SE, both FDISK and FORMAT function properly, but will display an incorrect disk size on the screen. A similar problem can occur with Windows Me at larger disk sizes (starting above 80 GB).

Further information is available on Microsoft’s Web site at http://support.microsoft.com. Search their Support Knowledge Base for articles 0263044 and 0263045.

Note 2: FDISK may not run properly after an external drive has been disconnected and reconnected. Rebooting the computer before running FDISK is recommended.

Note 3: Neither ScanDisk nor Defrag will operate on drive partitions larger than 127 GB. Further information is available on Microsoft’s Web site at http:/ /support.microsoft.com. Search their Support Knowledge Base for article 0184006. Third party utilities can be used to replace the functionality of the ScanDisk and Defrag utilities.

Note 4: Windows 2000 and XP are limited to creating FAT32 partitions < 32GB, you can format FAT32 partitions > 32GB using 3rd party partitioning software. Windows 2000 and XP can mount FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB that were created by other versions of Windows or 3rd party disk utilities.

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