On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:57, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 08:43 AM 12/11/2002 -0800, you wrote: > >Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am beginning to think that > >the drive has been damaged, from before when I had a virus etc. My husband > >has an older computer, Pentium 2 that he has said I can set up Linux on. > >He would like to try to reformat my drive and take the time to figure out > >where we went wrong. In other words start from scratch. > >As I have no operating system ie: I can get to login: in something similar > >to dos but it does not boot, is there any way to 1. login and get my files > >2. Reformat the drive using particion magic (we have the program) > > > >Many thanks in advance, > > > >Alexa > > Save yourself a huge headache & don't use PM for anything relating to > linux. Let MDK do the partitioning & Such for you. Alternatively use > FDISK for windows, but fair warning it IS more arcane than MDK's > partitioning GUI.
And be aware: Windows does not always like Linux's fdisk partitioning and DOS fdisk and NTFS file systems don't play nicely together. -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org ========================================= Bill who? ... Micro what?
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