I ran into this a little while ago.  If you're going back to Windoze or
dual-booting, boot using a win boot disk.  Run "fdisk /mbr"  then run
regular fdisk and delete all partitions recreating them.  Should be okay
then.

I myself ran into an issue yesterday with Partition Magic that said my
partition table was corrupt.  I submitted the report to PowerQuest, and
I was told to turn the removable media settings to off in the bios. 
They were off, and I still ran into the problem.  Completely stumped the
techs there.  


Shawn


Spencer Underground wrote:
> 
> Has anyone had the pleasure of loading wincrap on a drive that previously
> housed llinux?
> I have had mild sucess with this. But I have a very stubborn WD that will
> not forget the mbr of its previous life. I zero filled the drive and still
> nothing. It shows the classic symptoms of a virus i.e. master boot record
> modified  ide drivers corrupt,,,,that sort of thing. But no virus found , at
> least not at antivirus.com. Maybe I just need some better quality herb or
> something, but I think lilo and win do not get along real nicely.
> Incidentally, I had a simular situation on an NTFS drive. I was able to
> repair the mbr and recover the data. But that was a different situation.
> Still stemming from lilo and win.
> 
> -Spencer Underground
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