Tim Meddick wrote:
I rarely use either the MAP or the DISPART command and if I have a major
problem, similar to yours, I always use an M$-DOS boot disk.

The difference being that the DOS command FDISK - does return volume
labels (where they exist) on partitions.

The thing is, without knowing which partition is which - you might be
deleting the netbook's recovery partition - should it have one.

My best guess would be :

-: Partition1 EISA Utilities 6150 MB = RECOVERY PARTITION
C: Partition2 NTFS 68653 MB = WINDOWS PARTITION
E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB = UBUNTU PARTITION

Begs the question of why would Ubuntu be installed on a proprietary NTFS
partition?


D: Partition1 KINGSTON [FAT] = YOUR USB DRIVE

.....so, you could try deleting E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB
....(unless you know different - that this is NOT the UBUNTU partition!)

My evidence for this is that as you are actually logged in to C:\Windows
while you are running Recovery Console, the partition before it must
have been there before or at the installation of the C: partition - it
has no drive-letter associated with it, so it's probably a hidden
partition - usually this means the recovery partition. That just leaves
Partition3 (E

I think that at this stage finding the Active status of the partitions
might help. Carl (or Bob) would need to create a Windows 98 Startup
disk on USB and use Fdisk to see what is going on with the active
partition flag. I haven't ever made a W98 bootable USB stick but a
quick search on the net leads to sites like this with all the
information and downloads for the necessary files:

http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm
How to Create a bootable USB Memory Key

You should be able to toggle the active partition with Fdisk but I would
also stick PowerQuest's (Symantec} 16-bit PtEdit utility on the stick:
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/tools.htm

John