On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:31, Lanman wrote: > Thanks Stephen but I've never used Partition Magic, so I don't have it > lying around to try your suggestion. It would be nice if there was a > utility I could use to completely reformat or erase the MBR, especially > if it actually worked! None of the ones I downloaded were able to fix it > and neither were the anti-virus apps. > > I'm tempted to replace the m/board in case that's the problem. I'm > wondering if it might be the IDE controller or something. It might also > explain the drive (CRC errors) I had on the other drive. > > Maybe fate is trying to tell me that it's finally time for that 4 CPU > Tyan board with 4 fast Xeon's and a few Gig's of DDR ram. Jeesh! The > things I do just to run a "Solitaire" Game server! Grin!
Er...you can use a Win98 boot disk and fdisk to set the active partition - so it's not a matter of having PQM (although it's a great tool to have); fdisk and cfdisk do the same, but they're a bit more dangerous... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales ----------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? ----------------------------------------------- A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
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