What I meant as the cloning method is, it has been installed using an disk imaging tool named 'g4u' using a copy of a installed machine (linke Norton Ghost).I hope it is clear.
All the partitions were in ext3 format. So using a Windows XP cd , I created a partition using the windows setup. It failed and then i tried using fdisk with a Windows 98 CD. but the problem remains,its same even format the mbr.
So thats the situation. I'm trying to keep my mandrake installation and get Windows installed. If i delete linux partitions, Windows can be installed without a problem.
Thanks