On Monday 18 October 2004 08:07 pm, Jack wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 07:26 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > > On Sunday 17 October 2004 12:00 am, Jack wrote: > > > Yes I do. On another matter... > > > > > > Is it possible that Konstruct interfered with my winXP setup on c: > > > drive? I just spent the last 2 hours recovering my windows system. I > > > might have mentioned that I'm dual-booting. Does konstruct do anything > > > to the c: drive (hda)? My linux is on hdc and nothing from here should > > > touch hda. > > > > Actually no - not that I can see anyway. I grepped through the source, > > looking for anything to do with hda, and got nothing. I haven't read any > > reports of it messing with any other partitions either. What happened to > > the partition? I take it it was something that was able to be recovered? > > (no permanent damage?) > > Hi Randall... > > My XP partition went "poof". I think it was a faulty mbr. My Drive > Image 7.0 image backup didn't work so I was forced to unhook my boot > manager, rebuild XP with the repair function, and then re-install my > boot manager. All told it took me 2 hours. > > This is not the first time fooling around with something in Linux has > killed my XP partition. (You'd think having each operating system on > separate disks would prevent these problems but it doesn't apparently.) > It tends to make me wary but how does one learn without "fooling > around." :-) > > I have now abandoned Drive Image for Paragon Drive Backup 6.0 which > comes highly recommended. It even uses Linux on it's recovery CD. I do > *not* want to have to depend on Window's repair function. It takes as > long as a full install. Paragon DB even images my Linux installation so > now I should be doubly protected (though I would prefer to never have to > find out if I truly am). > > - Jack used to be you could start up in dos and give "fdisk MBR" and it would reset the windows bootup. Does this no longer work in 10.1? or 10.0? Anybody know? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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