Which partition is booted is determined by your boot loader. You probably need to reconfigure whichever boot loader you are using or reload the Windows bootloader in your master boot record. Let us know which boot loader you have installed now. Matt At 07:34 AM 7/25/2002, Darragh wrote: >Hello all, >I have made a slight mistake during the last week or so. I installed >Mandrake 8.0 without sighted assistance. It was actually straight forward >most of the time. The installation went ok a part from the minor problem >of KDE loading up at start up. With sighted help I got back into the bash >prompt. Still, I prefer Red Hat so tried to uninstall Mandrake. Couldn't >find the uninstall option any where so decided to do it threw windows. I >used partition magic to delete the partitions and make the c partition >bootable again. Thinking that would work I restarted the computer but to >my annoyance no luck. I've had to re-install Mandrake so as I can access >the ntfs partition. So, now to the question, does any one know how I can >successfully uninstall Mandrake without this happening? Oh, I should add >that when mandrake was installed it booted straight into it. I found that >holding down the escape key bought me into a screen where I could type >"nt" to get back into windows. This didn't work with Red Hat 7.0. > >I'm not too sure if I'm accurate in this assumption but, would I be right >in thinking that the partition that is booted can be changed threw the >BIOS? The reason that I ask is I don't hear the hard disc spin when I get >into the operating system list. > >Thanks again for al your help >I am sure I'm close to actually getting this system set up on this computer. > >Darragh