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Posted: May 24 2006,20:05 QUOTE
I had a similar problem when I was putting together my Armada laptop.  After I finished the frugal install I tried to reboot and the windows on my hda1 would not boot.  I rebooted from a Windows setup disk and from the A: prompt did an fdisk.  I looked at the partition that had windows and it was set as active (had the A next to it)  I made the partion inactive and then remade it active.  I figured that since I had been messing with the drives in dsl (cfdisk) that maybe the drive was not being recognized as active.  When I rebooted, everything came up fine.  I would recommend that you be careful and don't delete the partion or anything.  
Enjoy!  --Ted
Now can someone help me with my soundcard problem.  See my post.
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Posted: May 25 2006,15:01 QUOTE
Thanks Ted. I dont have a Windoze ME bootable CD with me. The only CDs that came with my laptop were system recovery CDs which when run asks me if I would like to reformat my hard-disk...which obviously I dont. And I dont have a floppy drive. I am wondering if I can use fdisk from DSL and do what you say (i.e. make hda1 inactive and then again make it active). Do you think that might do more harm than good because I am using linux fdisk on a windoze partition?
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Posted: May 25 2006,21:08 QUOTE
DO NOT DO THAT!  All fdisk's are not created equal.
Have someone burn you a copy of fdisk from their Windoze machine, whatever you can do to try this out.  Do not dispair, it's called the wonderful world of learning Linux!
Enjoy! --Ted
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