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I think I have post the partition table in my first post. Isn't the information enough? Or do I miss something else? Not patient to wait, my roommates ask me to erase the entilre partition table, and of cource, I lost almost all data. After several trials and errors(as the following), MDK is finally installed. I: The HD is partitioned as hda1 ext3 10GB hda5 Fat32 10GB hda6 Fat32 20GB hda7 Fat32 40GB I intend to install xp on hda5, but xp said it need to be installed on the partition containing mbr. So it doesn't work. II: Then I re-parttioned the HD as hda1 Fat32 10GB hda5 ext3 10GB and leave other space not partitioned and formatted First installed xp, then installed MDK10.0. . Don't know why but it success. One thing to be noticed, X windows crashes (mouse not moving, screen froze) everytime I intend to install rpm. But the problem is fixed after lowering the external frequency from 133MHz to 100MHz(time clock of CPU->1350MHz). Have no idea. Is this something to do with the problems during installation?

In fact, I have used these two procedures, but eventually got "missing operation system". I'll try other methods and report back. By the way, this is a friendly community. You're kindly

Hi, dear all. I have problem booting my PC now. Here the procedures I took. CPU:AMD XP+ 2600MHz RAM:512MB DDR (Dual Channel) 1. The initial partition table of my 80G HD is hda1 NTFS 10GB (Win XP installed) hda5 FAT32 10GB hdd6 FAT32 20GB hda7 NTFS 40GB (And the system works fine.) 2. (Then I tried to install MDK 10.0 Official through CDROM on hda5.) After entering the installation program: i)I erased hda5 and establsihed a swap and a new hda5 in ext3. ii)The program formatted hda5. iii)Installation began! iv)But the program crashed at the last 10 sec. The screen froze and the mouse couldn't move. (By the way, the boot loader had not installed yet.) 3.I repeat the installation several times and it always crash! I gived up. 4.Try to boot from hda1 (Win XP), but it appear "boot disk error, please insert boot disk" (I forgot the exact text, but somehow it means.) 5.I uses "fdisk /mbr" under DOS environment. 6.Finally I always have "missing operation system" while booting. Can anyone help me? I have important data on HD. Thanks. Arthur