Re: [newbie] removing dual boot option...have a computer with tons of problems
At 02:13 PM 6/28/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:57 pm, Tsyko wrote: If you boot of the windows cd again go to the dos prompt and type ´fdisk /mbr´ without the quotes and this should take away the lilo partioning... That´s how I have done it in the past. THANK YOU! it works now. i'm happier now :) now i have to diagnose hardware and see what it's power problems are although it could've been software problems. once i figure that out, it's time to try to find an ethernet card for it to hook it up to the router and get it onilne. thanks again! Mike Best little laptop i've ever owned is a Panasonic Toughbook. They live up to their namesake. Trust me...you can pound it all you want it won't break. :D I use a Xircom Cardbus 100+ Modem 56 card. Worth 500$ but uses a normal Cat-5 cable to attach to it for LAN purposes... so no proprietary dongle here. :) Very nice... lets you use standardized cables is very reliable. They've come down in price being a cardbus card so you may want to get one of these as opposed to a NIC with a proprietary interface for your cables. HTH - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] removing dual boot option...have a computer with tons of problems
If you boot of the windows cd again go to the dos prompt and type ´fdisk /mbr´ without the quotes and this should take away the lilo partioning... That´s how I have done it in the past. Tsyko On Saturday, 28 June 2003 17:36, Michael wrote: ok, i've got some problems here. my laptop had been giving me problems for a while. i had dropped it after getting my PC (which is 3x faster), and broke the latch on the CD drive. well, i fixed that. the display is also funky now, but with an external moniter, it's fine. well.. i couldn't get windows to go through an install. was having problems with it. it kept locking up. well, the hard drive had been formatted during the windows 98se install, so i couldn't get into windows. so i attempted to see if i was having hardware or software problems. my solution...install linux md9.1. well, i cleared out the partitions on the hard drive (was split in 2 when windows was installed). i then went and let linux take the entire 4gb hard drive. the install went over fine. i booted into KDE and everything was good. well, then i decided i needed to try windows again, as the PC is the primary computer and i was trying to get the laptop up and running again so myself and the wife could use it with windows (more for her than me really). so i went and started a re-install of linux, got to the partitioning section, formatted the hard drive completely, restarted the laptop, and went and started with a windows install. the windows install went over smoothly, or so i thought. the laptop started up after the install, and it went to the linux boot options. Houston, we have a problem. there's no option for windows, and linux isn't on the laptop anymore. ok, thought i could handle this...i went and restarted with the windows CD, went into MSDOS, deleted the hard drive, re-installed the hard drive, restarted the laptop with the windows Cd in again. it then told me that the hard drive was not formatted and i needed to format to continue with an install. i thought i had fixed it. re-installed windows. rebooted the systemthe linux dual boot option came up again! the hard drive was 100% unconditionally formatted according to windows. so did i really make a big mistake? the drive was set as a FAT32 drive. i don't know how to go in and remove the dual boot option so i can just put plain old windows on the laptop again. to anyone that can help, please keep in mind that you are giving advice to someone that knows NOTHING about programming. i'm COMPLETELY new to this stuff. i've said it in other e-mails to the list recently, but i'll say it againbasic linux starts in a week or so and until that starts, i'm completely clueless about programming. have i completely ruined my laptop for windows now? if i have, it's bitter sweet, because it'll give me a computer to experiment on with linux programming before i go and mess up the PC, but i'd like to have windows back on it again and have 2 computers in the house. thanks to all! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] removing dual boot option...have a computer with tons of problems
On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:57 pm, Tsyko wrote: If you boot of the windows cd again go to the dos prompt and type ´fdisk /mbr´ without the quotes and this should take away the lilo partioning... That´s how I have done it in the past. THANK YOU! it works now. i'm happier now :) now i have to diagnose hardware and see what it's power problems are although it could've been software problems. once i figure that out, it's time to try to find an ethernet card for it to hook it up to the router and get it onilne. thanks again! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] removing dual boot option...have a computer with tons of problems
ok, i've got some problems here. my laptop had been giving me problems for a while. i had dropped it after getting my PC (which is 3x faster), and broke the latch on the CD drive. well, i fixed that. the display is also funky now, but with an external moniter, it's fine. well.. i couldn't get windows to go through an install. was having problems with it. it kept locking up. well, the hard drive had been formatted during the windows 98se install, so i couldn't get into windows. so i attempted to see if i was having hardware or software problems. my solution...install linux md9.1. well, i cleared out the partitions on the hard drive (was split in 2 when windows was installed). i then went and let linux take the entire 4gb hard drive. the install went over fine. i booted into KDE and everything was good. well, then i decided i needed to try windows again, as the PC is the primary computer and i was trying to get the laptop up and running again so myself and the wife could use it with windows (more for her than me really). so i went and started a re-install of linux, got to the partitioning section, formatted the hard drive completely, restarted the laptop, and went and started with a windows install. the windows install went over smoothly, or so i thought. the laptop started up after the install, and it went to the linux boot options. Houston, we have a problem. there's no option for windows, and linux isn't on the laptop anymore. ok, thought i could handle this...i went and restarted with the windows CD, went into MSDOS, deleted the hard drive, re-installed the hard drive, restarted the laptop with the windows Cd in again. it then told me that the hard drive was not formatted and i needed to format to continue with an install. i thought i had fixed it. re-installed windows. rebooted the systemthe linux dual boot option came up again! the hard drive was 100% unconditionally formatted according to windows. so did i really make a big mistake? the drive was set as a FAT32 drive. i don't know how to go in and remove the dual boot option so i can just put plain old windows on the laptop again. to anyone that can help, please keep in mind that you are giving advice to someone that knows NOTHING about programming. i'm COMPLETELY new to this stuff. i've said it in other e-mails to the list recently, but i'll say it againbasic linux starts in a week or so and until that starts, i'm completely clueless about programming. have i completely ruined my laptop for windows now? if i have, it's bitter sweet, because it'll give me a computer to experiment on with linux programming before i go and mess up the PC, but i'd like to have windows back on it again and have 2 computers in the house. thanks to all! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
