I created a new fat32 partition from free space on my 40GB hdd. Now my dual boot W2K/Mandrake won't boot. I used the "Disk Manager" feature in W2K Pro to create a fat32 partition. It complained that another program was using the hdd or something but I managed to format it anyway and use it within W2K. Now I can't start my linux installation. The W2K still boots. This is my partition map: Primary HTFS 7.81GB Extended 494MB / ext2 or ext3 243MB swap 2.93GB ? ext? 4.6GB /home ext? 3.91GB fat32 << Here's the new one I just made. (G:) 14GB FREE 3.91GB fat32 << Old part. for sharing .mp3 and transfering between OSs. (F:) Here is my error message: Activating swap partitions: swapon: /dev/hda7: Invalid argument [FAILED] Finding module dependencies [OK] Checking filesystems /dev/hda9: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not a swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblodk: e2fsck -b 8193 fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda9 /dev/hda8: clean, 587/602656 files, 29306/1204867 Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (Y/N) (beware, you can lose data) I tried deleting the newly created fat32 but my Mandrake 8.1 still won't start.