Most of the Startup related issues are caused by a damaged MBR or OS files. So the first step is to use Automatic Repair on your Windows computer to fix the error ...

The "Invalid Partition Table" message usually comes from a hard drive's MBR, so the problem seems odd. I thought the same, so I went into the recovery console and ran fixmbr and got utterly no change.

I am getting occasional errors popping up on my console(Mandrake 9 with kernel 2.4.21) saying something about invalid partition table. The exact error is:<BR>ldm ...