Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:22:01 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] SERIOUS boot problems with EZBios!
At 01:36 PM 17/02/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:29:32 EST >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [LIB] SERIOUS boot problems with EZBios! > >In a message dated 2/17/2002 1:34:03 PM Mountain Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Previous to this whole debacle, I had booted to a floppy, and re-formatted >> the current active partition from the floppy in order to install a copy of >> Win95 for testing purposes. So the present active partition is not >> bootable, and I can't get by EZBios to boot from the FDD! >> >> HELP... OH DO HELP, YE GODS OF SILICON DIVINITY! >> >> MATT > >I'm afraid there's no divine inspiration in this suggestion, in fact you may >regard it as the suggestion from hell, but as a last resort, boot from the >original EZBIOS bootable floppy and start over again :^( Oh ya that reminds me ... if you're desperate to get the data off that hard drive, you CAN put it into a desktop and ghost the individual partitions THEN blow it all away with EZ-Bios. After that, put it back into your desktop (or leave it in your desktop to install EZ-Bios) and MAKE DAMN SURE YOUR DESKTOP BOOTS FROM THE HARD DRIVE FIRST! (then do the ctrl thing). This gets tricky if you were intending to boot your desktop's OS to get access to the rest of the stuff ... I ended up bootsec'ing my desktop's boot sector and putting it as an entry on my laptop harddrive's NTLDR (I use ntldr to boot Win95 and Linux on my laptop). >In my diagnostic efforts to determine why my L100CT wouldn't resume from >hibernation/standby, I had the brilliant idea to boot straight from a W98 >boot floppy, bypassing EZBIOS - HUGE mistake. Somehow EZBIOS wouldn't report >at boot-up after that, but W98 would still load. The information in PM at >that point was undecipherable, as you might guess. Actually what I ended up getting was 1.5 copies of the partition table (refer my earlier rant on the issue!). Needless to say the hard drive was practically hosed (I WAS able to ghost my main partition off though). >I booted from the EZBIOS floppy, repartitioned and formatted the HDD, and, >ugh, reinstalled W98. It did work, though. You may have to uninstall EZBIOS >in your case, before reconfiguring. Good luck, hopefully there's a less >destructive answer on the way. Doubt it ... ghost and format seems to be the 'kindest' way ... heh - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
