I think this is the biggest computing problem of my whole 15 year old life. No matter what I do I can't seem to partition anymore. Here's my error... It all started when I installed Redhat 9 to see what it was like. It was free and I was bored so I wanted to check it out. So I created an ext 3 and a swap file for Linux in Partition Magic 8. After install Linux I updated the system files and received the lastest updates from Redhat. It worked for a few days and one day I went into Paritition Magic and I saw an error #114 saying that my Parition Table is messed up. I tried everything to try to make a new Windows life. I try to get back into Partition Magic and formatting the harddrive but it wouldn't let me. It would just give me another error, error #4. So I tried going into Windows XP recovery console and using the following command: fixmbr, fixboot, bootcfg /rebuild, and also tried fdisk /mbr. Nothing worked, the partition table is still currupted and not able to format and start all over. Can anyone throw me a bone to fixing this problem? Thank you. Here are the partitions I had: 1) Windows XP partition 2) Documents paritition 3) Etx 3 partition 4) Swap partition

Forgot the most important thing... For some strange reason, Windows XP boots up fine. Partition magic doesn't seem to see it or any other partition though. This seems to bug me because I need to edit the Partitions sometimes.

If you able/willing to start over - means losing everything on the drive... - then use delpart.exe to clear out 'all partitions etc.; then use '98 Fdisk/Format utils to reconfigure/reformat (fat32 initially) for XP; then re-install XP. delpart runs via dos/'9x bootdisk (a:>\ prompt). Either add it to the boot-floppy or use on its own floppy. Free download from: http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/index.htm http://www.mesich.com

it doesn't see the linux partition though... im a bit worried that that won't fix my problem.

I take that back, god bless you for fixing my problem. Now I see a partition table and partition magic work again. I believe linux and windows partitions were in conflict some how. I have done 10 hours of research and reading and there are people out there who have similiar problems. Seems that this solution worked for me. I don't know where the Linux partition went though =). It's gone though and I'm happy with my new clean os. Thank you!!!!

Your're most welcome.