yes, your linux partition is gone.

the ME 'restore' disk contains an image of your hard drive the way it
looked after initial installation. 

i suggest getting a second computer. sharing a hard drive with windows
is liker sharing a house with a fat,stupid relative - walking around,
breaking your things, cant hold a job, you get the idea. 

Eric Gilliland wrote:
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I had another question about the problem with my linux install that i sent
> out a couple of weeks ago.  As a refresher, I stupidly let Norton AntiVirus
> restore an old MBR and now lilo won't load.  Following the advise of a
> person at Mandrake Expert.com, I atempted to boot using my CD (my bood
> floppy will not work!), and then do an upgrade, but this resulted in an
> error message.  the long and the short is that I now cannot get into linux.
> 
> Anyway, my question is this.  After the initial problem I did a System
> Unstall under Win ME in the hopes that it would install the old MBR (it
> didn't).  I did a restore to the previous day.  Now, when I look at my C:
> drive propertied under explorer, I notice that it says the size of C: is
> 37.2 gigs.  This box has a 40 gig hard drive, and I alloted 10 gigs to linux
> when I installed it.  Does anyone think that maybe the system restore erased
> my linux partition?  Or is the size of the C: that explorer shows just a
> lie?  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Eric Gilliland
> 
> J. Eric Gilliland
> jegilliland@hotmail.com
> Meet it is I set it down, that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
> Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5
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