Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

2007-11-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:15 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Tueday, 20 November 2007, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip snip I'm an old retired Assembly Language programmer (started with IBM 360/65) and I never worked with Unix, so this is a brand new world for me and one that I

RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

2007-11-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Monday, 19 November 2007, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at http://www.ubcd4win.com/ It uses BartPE, discussed earlier, but adds a lot more tools, including rootkit and antivirus scanners. A clean install after data

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

2007-11-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tueday, 20 November 2007, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I should have asked how big your setup was currently. The HD is only 40 GB on my box, a low end Dell Dimension 2400 (2.6 GHz Celeron) I won in a raffle. After I get this one up and running, I am going to switch wife and

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

2007-11-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, Nicolas Sahlqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I top that with another 10 - 20 GB, assume you got a DVD iso to burn, so you make a copy and due to the effective native copy file feature, expect a copy to be placed in some temp folder on C: why you need another 5 - 8

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

2007-11-20 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Lanny Marcus wrote: On Monday, 19 November 2007, Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov wrote: snip A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Phil:I found that Grisoft AVG (I use their free anti-virus program in Windows) has a free tool: AVG

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

2007-11-20 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Nov 20, 2007 9:19 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's been mentioned in the thread, but since you don't talk about this in your summary above: one thing I would recommend is create (at least) 2 partitions for MS: a small (5 to 10 G) for the system, and a larger

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

2007-11-20 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Nicolas Sahlqvist wrote: I top that with another 10 - 20 GB, assume you got a DVD iso to burn, so you make a copy and due to the effective native copy file feature, expect a copy to be placed in some temp folder on C: why you need another 5 - 8 GB free and then the space the DVD occupies..

RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

2007-11-19 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
You can fix it all from CentOS. Install CentOS plus kernel with NTFS support. Insert cdrom. Use the ported expand app to expand the user32.dl_ out of the i386 directory on the cd-rom (or an extracted copy of your latest service pack), and then mount your NTFS partition read-write, and copy the

Re: [centos] dual boot box: winxp centos 5: impossible to restorewinxp? -- antair restored

2007-11-18 Thread gjgowey
Have you disconnected all your usb hardware before trying the repair? I've repaired my box more times than I can count and the only time I've seen lots of hdd activity is when I had some weird hardware attached. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -Original Message-