[ILUG] reinstalling windows!

[Alex O'Connor]

Hi,
 I just installed Mandrake 7.0 off the PC PLUS DVD, but I made a mistake with partitioning the drive, and lost my windows partition. I had the "after 1024th cylinder" problem during the install, so I created a /boot partition at the first sector to let me boot under LILO. 
Linux works grand, but I can't get windows to reinstall, because SCANDISK returns an error that it cant read the last cluster (i think). 

Will I be able to get my machine dual booting without deleting my linux partitions?

Finally, can anyone recommend a cheap linux-compatible external modem (pref. 56k) ?

thx in advance,
Alex.

BTW: I found when installing that there was a problem with the boot disk creator. It works if you use the dos program tho.
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