Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:58, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi all > Run up against winxp again, I'm sure they are playing foul. > My friend recently had his PC stolen after all the hard work getting > everything sorted. > So he has his new machine 2.2GHz Athlon and 2 40 GB drives., both > formated NTFS wit

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:58 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > So went to load MDK 9.2 on it, starts up finds both HD's but fails to > get an interrupt response and says protection level >= 1. > So disconnect the first HD and swap over the cables so the second HD > looks like the only drive sam

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Bown
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:58 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > > > So went to load MDK 9.2 on it, starts up finds both HD's but fails to > > get an interrupt response and says protection level >= 1. > > So disconnect the first HD and swap over the ca

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Bill
If you want to erase the mbr try using an old DOS 6.2 install disk. Boot it and use the command fdisk /mbr that should do the trick. On Star Date Saturday 01 November 2003 11:11 am, James Sparenberg sent this sub-space message. > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:58, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi all >

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Bown
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:11, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:58, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi all > > Run up against winxp again, I'm sure they are playing foul. > > My friend recently had his PC stolen after all the hard work getting > > everything sorted. > > So he has his new ma

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 01 November 2003 05:42 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after > > > winxp has been on a HD.. > > > > Problem has nothing to do with the fact that WinXP has already been on > > th

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread lduvall
Often times it is easier to blame someone else - especially if it is the evil empire - than to try to find a solution. When I loaded 9.1 on my brand new laptop w/ XP Pro, it was the smoothest linux install I ever did (which may or may not indicate a positive experience ;^) - it was good! Windows

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Bown
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 22:47, Bill wrote: > If you want to erase the mbr try using an old DOS 6.2 install disk. Boot it > and use the command fdisk /mbr that should do the trick. Thanks Bill, but I did that :((, and I used the win98 install to completely format the HD and write to the partition t

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Bown
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:17, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 01 November 2003 05:42 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after > > > > winxp has been on a HD.. > > > > > > Problem has nothin

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: "Richard Bown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:17, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Unless I am missing something that you have not brought up, the errors you are > > describing generally refer to the IDE controller itself and not the hard > > drive. I/O APIC and ACPI problems generally

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 15:50, Richard Bown wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:17, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Saturday 01 November 2003 05:42 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after > > >

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks Thomas I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again, and post the data to the group as well as yourself. I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine with 2 HDs one has winxp on it the other MDK 9.1 if you mount the drive with winxp on it then as root

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 10:14 am, Richard Bown wrote: > Thanks Thomas > > I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again, > and post the data to the group as well as yourself. > > > I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine > with 2 HDs one has winxp on it the ot

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Larry Sword
Richard Bown wrote: Thanks Thomas I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again, and post the data to the group as well as yourself. I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine with 2 HDs one has winxp on it the other MDK 9.1 if you mount the drive with winxp

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Larry Sword
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 10:14 am, Richard Bown wrote: Thanks Thomas I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again, and post the data to the group as well as yourself. I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine with 2 HDs one has winxp on

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
Hi got 9.2 on that thing at last, noapic and acpi=off ( OK Greg :) ) BUT it took 3 installs to do it, first bombed out loading an object file for newt the second just hung after selecting the files to load third time it went in , each time was an install and each time all partitions were formatte

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 November 2003 01:01 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi > got 9.2 on that thing at last, noapic and acpi=off ( OK Greg :) ) Hey, hey, great news!! Thanks for sticking with it, your friend won't be sorry. Don't forget to send Tom the dmesg output so he can get the install kernel to recogn

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 11:15, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2003 01:01 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi > > got 9.2 on that thing at last, noapic and acpi=off ( OK Greg :) ) > > Hey, hey, great news!! Thanks for sticking with it, your friend won't be > sorry. Don't forget to send Tom t

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:15, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2003 01:01 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi > > got 9.2 on that thing at last, noapic and acpi=off ( OK Greg :) ) > > Hey, hey, great news!! Thanks for sticking with it, your friend won't be > sorry. Don't forget to send Tom t

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: >I really must disagree with you on this Greg, if this was so , how come >I can move a drive thats had winxp, into a machine thats happily running >linux and get problems on an install, normally when the partition table

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 21:40, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Richard Bown wanted us to know: > > >I really must disagree with you on this Greg, if this was so , how come > >I can move a drive thats had winxp, into a machine thats happily running > >linux an

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: >> I'd say you have "Virus Protection" set to "Yes" in the BIOS. >No Todd that was one of the first thing s to look for Then I'd boot into rescue mode and run one at a time fdisk, cfdisk, and diskdrake and look at the

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Eric Huff
> I'd say you have "Virus Protection" set to "Yes" in the BIOS. What's that, where the bios doesn't allow you to run or even look at Windows partitions? :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 November 2003 05:21 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > I'd say you have "Virus Protection" set to "Yes" in the BIOS. > > What's that, where the bios doesn't allow you to run or even look at > Windows partitions? :) The BIOS prevents you from writing anything to the mbr of the drive as a prote

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 21:55, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2003 05:21 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > > I'd say you have "Virus Protection" set to "Yes" in the BIOS. > > > > What's that, where the bios doesn't allow you to run or even look at > > Windows partitions? :) > > The BIOS prevents

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: >How many blocks of data are allocated to the mbr ? The very first sector, 512 bytes. >is it the same for all OS's ? It's not a function of the OS, it's a function of the architecture. >what would happen if one OS u