[ale] DOS error

[Tomas]

I want to say a big thank you to everyone who tried to help me with this problem.  I have since erased both partitins and have a 30G reiser partition :).  Just for the record Ill tell you what I saw and what I know
For some reason c:\ would map itself to my new swap partition.  Linux thought that the drive was set up like:

1 FAT 32  24G
2 Swap    256M
3 ext2    6G

but fdisk in dos said it was

1 NONDOS  6G
2 NONDOS  24G
C:\ 3 FAT32 128M

so thats seemed to be the problem.  I didnt put the linux partition over windows and I even used the windows CD to try and boot and it had the same error.

	I had a back up HD that was 4 G and we backed up all the important files.  I then reformatted the HD.  After that I reinstalled windows from scratch.  I failed miserably.  I cant install windows, but debian was easy. lol.  for some reason, it was still missing files and it couldnt find drivers on our windows CD.  After that my wife and I agreed to just install SuSE linux, which was easier to use for her, and worked for us. 
 
again thanks for your help,
Tomas
tomas22 at mindspring.com
http://kahuna.clayton.edu/~tomas

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