On Friday 19 November 2004 06:08 pm, Lanman wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > > On Friday 19 November 2004 05:38 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: > >>On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote: > >>>>That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot > >>>>partition "ACTIVE' using Partition Magic...after that, it was all > >>>>downhill (er, uphill) > >>>> > >>>>-- > >>>>stephen kuhn > >>> > >>>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! > > > > have you tryed The Ultimate Boot Disk ? > > download it at > > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ > > pretty powerful tools > > > >>>-- > >>>Lanman > >>>Registered Linux User #190712 > >> > >>use bootit ng from: > >> > >>http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ > > Thanks! I'll give the tools a try and let you know if they work! Careful they can be extremely dangerous
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