Hard drive Partitioned for other OS

[M.Arthur]

Have had Two hardrives partitioned with Linux as my main system on 40gb HDD and Win98 on 10 gb Hdd.
In the event of bootup problem of these partitioned systems. How can you reinstall from CD to one of these sytem partitions?
FDISK will delete every thing on the whole drive.
Bootup menu normaly boots to a selected system but have now developed a bootup problem from Floopy disk for all none Linux systems. Linux boots from a floopy and hard disk no problem.
An interesting learning curve for keen Linux user.
Have downloaded a number of articals related to GRUB and partitioning from the LinuxNewbie site excellent help
I had not appreciated my sytem could develop a bootup problem when I had the present partition system installed
Now doing plenty of study on this situation
Regards
Maurice

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Excuse me? I'm afraid you're going to have to explain a little more.

I'm assuming this is some type of boot loader question?

[M.Arthur]

Hi Alex
Thanks for your interest.
Two harddrives One 10gb Win98 Second HDD partitioned to other systems last one Linux KDE. Used Grub floppy disk to select system. I deleted a file from win98 that when first installed was C:
I made an error in using Win 98 startup disk, I should have disconected that 10gb drive and it would have been OK as C: and the 40GB would not have been overwriten in that HDD.
Tried to not to have to use FDISK but that's what I now have done. Reinstall system files to 10Gb
All a learning curve of multibooting systems.
Thanks for reply
Linux is a very good system
Maurice