Hey thanks for all your input here aRTee.
I never knew that you could recover your previously partition tables!!! You learn something new everyday, just wish I knew that before I re-installed everything. Now, off to find that disk.......
B)
I must say though,overall I am very impressed with Mandy 10.0 (yes even with this nasty partition table bug). I am certainly not going to let a bug like that drive me away from linux, it would take alot more!!!
And to all the guys complaining about this bug, you should remember that this is not the final Mandrake 10.0 version, so you should be expecting some bugs, although I must admit, maybe not quite as nasty as this one. If you want a rock solid, stable and bugless version, wait to the 'Mandrake 10.0 Official' version comes out.
Cheers!!!
So very true.
Best practice , if you are going to dabble with Beta's , BACK UP, and secondly be prepared to get burnt occassionaly.
I backed up before trying MDK 10 , and yes it zapped me to , but all I lost was a couple of emails and an a few hours fixing my machine ( but that was fun).
And to "aze" you don't need to replace you HDD ,
Put in your WnXP disk reboot , blow away all the partitions , make one big make you whole HDD
a partition , reboot , select recovery , do a fix/mbr and fix/boot , and reinstall .
Yes you will lose your data , but mark up to lifes colorful experiences .