Yes, we aree faster than tech support! And potentially much more
destructive!!! º¿º
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Deavers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows Protection?
> Thanks, guys, I'll try it. Hopefully something will work.
>
> P.S. I was right, you guys are faster than tech support.
> -Jon
>
>
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows Protection?
> >Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:50:25 -0700 (MST)
> >
> >Your mom's probably going to kill you. It sounds like you corrupted
> >windows
> >pretty good. Ever backed up anything before? If you can get into safe
> >mode,
> >do that and back up any and all DATA (not programs) you have. Then
you'll
> >probably have to reformat the hd.
> >
> >It sounds as though you interupted PM while it was rearranging things.
> >That's
> >bad.
> >
> >One other thing you can try is boot to command prompt only and type
> >'scanreg
> >/restore' at the prompt. Try to reboot.
> >
> >If it's Win98 it MIGHT also reinstall over the top of itself, but I
> >wouldn't do
> >that - I'd format.
> >
> > > Below is a copy of a problem that I sent to the tech support at
> >Linuxcare. I
> > > figured someone here might know something to help and be able to
answer
> > > sooner. Please help me out here. By the way, I also went to
> >PowerQuest.com
> > > (Partition Magic's developers) and checked out their help files and
> >asked
> > > them what to do. They had a solution but it doesn't work on my machine
> > > (something about not having a smartdrv.exe file). I am so lost here
and
> >will
> > > appreciate any suggestions.
> > >
> > > I've just bought McMillan's The Complete Linux Operating System 6.5
> > > My computer has an AMD-K6 3D processor and 32 megs of ram a 6.2 gig
> > > hard drive and is made by Proteva. The OS that came with this package
is
> > > Linux, distribution Mandrake 6.1. My audio card is a SoundBlaster
> > > compatible and my vid card is just standard (don't know specs, 2 megs
of
> > > vidram I think...). If you need any info that would be on the system
> > > resource report I have a print out that I did right before I destroyed
> >my
> > > computer. Here goes: the package comes with a version of Partition
Magic
> >and
> > > while that was running I think I pushed ESC or something because it
> >looked
> > > like it was frozen. This was at about 50% complete I think. Then it
> >shuts
> > > off and the machine restarts. It comes up to the screen asking if I
want
> > > safe mode or command line only and all of those things and I thought
> >this
> > > was normal so I inserted the installation CD and restarted. When I
used
> >Disk
> > > Druid I
> > > realized something was wrong because it didn't acknowledge the Linux
> > > native and swap partitions I thought I had created with Partition
Magic.
> >So
> > > I restarted and ejected the CD and got back to the query screen as to
> >which
> > > way I wanted to load. SO I chose safe mode (and later all of the other
> > > possibilities to load Windows 98) and every time it said "Windows
> >protection
> > > error. You need to restart your computer/ Press a key to continue..."
so
> >I
> > > do and it happens again on every option except "safe mode and command
> >prompt
> > > only" or "command prompt only". The only thing is I don't know what to
> >do
> > > about only being in the command prompt. Please help me or my mother
will
> > > kill me.
> > >
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> >
> >Ty C. Mixon
> >F.T.C. Enterprises
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> >
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