Thanks Jason. the guy decided to reinstall everything. What I've seen so far about the MBR was fun anyways. It re-kindled my quest to learn the black art of Master Boot Record rescue. I learned a lot, and I'm gonna continue and make my own ucbd4win, so I can use it to rescue windows systems. The website I listed in the beginning of this thread is really good.
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 19:38:21 -0700 > Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] blue screen of death > > I'll be in the corona area tomorrow if you want to try erd disc > commander > > > > On May 24, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So I guess this Partition Magic might not be so magical.....Im gonna > > stick with gparted and fdisk..... > > > > Chris... > > > > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Paul Saenz <[email protected] > > > wrote: > >> My friends computer will not start..... it gets the blue screen of > >> death for > >> a fraction of a second. I put Hiren's disk in my friends computer (HP > >> pavilion dv9040us). It has two hard drives. The first one has > >> windows xp, > >> and the second has jaunty. When I opened Hirens, I went ahead and > >> opened > >> Parition Magic, and it gave me this message: > >> > >> > >> Norton Partition Magic Pro server has found an extended partition > >> on disk 2 > >> that crosses the 1024 cylinder boundry and is not marked as and > >> extended x > >> partition. This condition can cause data corruption on this disk. > >> After > >> fixing this problem Norton Partition Magic Pro must reboot this > >> system to > >> reinitialize the file system drivers. Would you like to change the > >> extended > >> partition to an extedned x partition? > >> > >> It appears to me that this is the problem, but the data may already > >> be > >> corrupted. > >> > >> My question is: If I tell Norton PM server to make it an extended x > >> partition, am I in danger of causing more damage, or if I try it, > >> will it > >> just leave things in the state that they are already in, execpt for > >> the > >> extendid x partition modification? > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limit > >> s. Check > >> it out. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> LinuxUsers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > > -Roger Penrose > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® goes with you. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Mobile1_052009
