Hello, i have a 30 gig drive which is partitioned into 3 drives of equal size. C;\ has windows installed on it, and D & E are file storage drives. I attempted to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 onto D:, and apparantly it went fine but when i try to boot into linux i get the classic

preparing machine to load "Linux"
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Now i know this has somehting to do with installing linux too far along the drive, as it should be installed near the begtinning right? So how do i correct this without uninstalling windows, installing linux, then putting windows back on after that? Im really at a loss here any help would be greatly apprecated. This was my first attempt at installing Linux and after MUCH trial and error i finally got to this stage but now i am totally out of ideas.

you can easily restore the windows boot loader by putting in a boot disk with fdisk and running

fdisk /mbr (it may be the \ slash or a -, not sure which one)

this will restore you boot record and allow you to boot into windows again.

as how to fix your boot problem. i am not really familar with lilo. make sure you install lilo to hda master boot record.

I can access windows fine, its just getting linux to work properly. I dont rememebr being asked where i want to install LILO to but im going ot try again and find out. hopefully it will work!
thanks for your help