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Okay, first what distro are you using and what kind of install did you install? Like a custom, desktop, server.... ?
If you didn't choose custom and create your own partitions during the install, most likely your Windows is gone.
If you did do a custom, you just need to load up and reconfig lilo to have a option to boot into your windows image. Answer the first two questions then will go from there.
Thats not LILO, that sounds to me like GRUB possibly.
But it sounds like you mentioned what you have as options not a lilo.conf file.
You will have to bring up /etc/lilo.conf in a text editor or in vi to view it if that is what your using. I am unsure though on what the boot screen looks like for Mandrake 8.
The screen is Drake 8's graphical lilo login, and yes, the "Linux, failsafe, floppy" are the boot options. It looks like he didn't add a stanza for Windows in /etc/lilo.conf.
ronnysjj,
Be more specific- what are the exact errors you're getting?
unexpected inconnsinstacy '
check filesystem do u wish to fix the erroe then it says "erroe occured durring file system check"
then i am at a screen that says "root@localhost root)#
i figured out what i did wrong during install i accedently made windows a swap how can i fix this get into windows back-up and then reformat. its labbeled at a stash i unmoounted it though!
If you really did format your Windows partition as a Linux swap partition, Windows is probably gone forever. Some of the raw data may still exist on the disk, but without the directory/filetable information, which the format destroyed, recovery is an expensive venture.
As far as the Linux errors go- you've damaged your filesystem(s), and Linux wants you to force a manual check. It looks like you've been dumped to a single-user mode command prompt (the "root@localhost root#"), where you should type "fsck -f" (without the quotes) to attempt a repair.
"Hmm..." he said, taking slight notice of the scent of troll wafting by...
Of course you can reinstall Windows- my assumption was that you had important data on your Windows partition that you wanted to recover. If not, just go ahead and reinstall everything.
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