a complete idea of partition and installation
 

HI,
i have windows xp and mandrake 10.0.
after the installation of mandrake ntldr file missed.
so now i decided to format it and make a fresh 80 GB hard disk now.

i need to install mandrake 10.0 and windows xp.
1)which one should i use to partition the disk.
2)what are the filesystem should i create for windows and mandrake?
3)which one first i install either mandrake or windows?

how many primary and logical partition i create...

thanks

Not a mandrake user but the answer to 3 is definitely install windows first.
For 1 i think it's better to create the windows patition and then leave the space you want for linux unallocated, and let the linux setup create the linux partitions.

Bruse: Are you suguname as well? This post has an eerie resemblence to this http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=294255

- Peder