help - large hardisk and linux installation

[sumeet <sumeet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

C Hanish Menon wrote:
> 
> Hi

> As there are some problem with the way BIOS, OS, IDE
interfaces and Harddisks
> communicate with One Another. In older systems or Systems
with OLD BIOSES and
> also some RATHER SLOW TO ADOPT OSes one can't directly access
Large disks. To
> overcome this the Disk drive vendors use special LOWLEVEL
programs which

dear sir,

i am directly mailing u, i hope that it is not on inconvience.

but i have a simple and important problem.

the information u mentioned earlier regarding a lowlevel
program on the
MBR od the harddisk in case of large harddisk, i have a similar
problem.
i have a 20 gb harddisk. partition into  2 GB (fat), and
extended
partition of 12gb (2 logical partition of 6 each of fat32) and
balance
5.4, i have left for linux.

the probelms is the same, while installation of linux, i get
the
partition error. several program mention that there is a
"partition
error" and "the disk is not to big" but windows works
brillantly. 

now, i have to mention i have windows 2000 installed. this
program
actually write its own code in the MBR which allows botting
from
multiple os. 

1. do u think the windows 2000 has written over the said low
level
program on the mbr?
2. how is to rectify the mistake. i mean rewrite (restore) the
boot
sector again without acutally harming the os.

anyother solutions ?

thanking u

sumeet