On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:17 am, flacycads wrote: > This is a good example of the wisdom of having a separate /home partition. > Rescues, and if need be, reinstalls are then essentially painless. I've > forgotten exacly how 8.1 cd1 installs, but did you try booting from a linux > floppy boot disk, and trying to run lilo lilo? Perhaps that might work. > > However, defrag is still an essential part of the windows experience- there > is no getting around it, and the improvement is more than marginal for > severely fragged drives. I must have defragged window thousands of times > over the years, and never had any problems whatsoever, so the risk is > virtually non-existent. I'm still not convinced Linux doesn't need > defragging also, and I've done a lot of reading on the subject. some of the problem may be that it is winME and WINME does not play fair with third party defrag utilities unless they were made for winME. if you upgrade from WIN98 to WinMe and have defrag utilities from other than MS, they will eat the end of your hard drive as well as some DLLs. but the replace winME with 2000 ....well ok...
> Robert Crawford > > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:44 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > > go to freshmeat grab gparted put it on a floppy and let it try and > > "rediscover" your partitions again. Then replace your winME with 2000 > > *grin*...... > > > > James > > > > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 01:46, antonio rodriguez wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > I have Mandrake Linux 8.1 installed on a Duron sharing the hard disk > > > with WinMe. After defrag WinMe I found that I couldn't boot Linux > > > because of a kernel panic. Entering in rescue mode I've ran fdisk so my > > > new partition table has only two sections: > > > > > > /dev/hda1/ Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > > > /dev/hda2/ Extended > > > > > > How do I could fix this problem in order to have my old 3 partitions > > > (W, Linux and Linux swap)? > > > > > > Any hints appreciated > > > > > > THanks in advance > > > > > > Antonio Rodriguez > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > > Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 13/02/03 > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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