Re: [Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW]

2000-06-17 Thread Lance
no shit sherlock; thanks so much for your constructive post. lance On 11 Jun 2000, Jaguar wrote: Ever heard of backing up critical data?? Jaguar

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW charles: Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I followed someone's advice on Linuxnewbie.org last night and went into the Win2k recovery console (**I DO NOT have the Win2k rescue floppy discs!!**), I ran the fixmbr and fixboot com

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)

2000-06-16 Thread Mike Perry
oldering iron, a manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas. -Original Message- From: Gary [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon, June 12, 2000 02:39 To: Lance Subject: Re[2]: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW Hi Lance, On Sunday, J

[newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-12 Thread Lance
charles: Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I followed someone's advice on Linuxnewbie.org last night and went into the Win2k recovery console (**I DO NOT have the Win2k rescue floppy discs!!**), I ran the fixmbr and fixboot commands as suggested, and it said it rewrote the mbr ok (to C:).

Re[2]: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-12 Thread Gary
Hi Lance, On Sunday, June 11, 2000, 2:40:51 PM, you hammered out in part about "[newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW": L I followed someone's advice on Linuxnewbie.org last night and went L into the Win2k recovery console (**I DO NOT have the Win2k rescu

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-12 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
Hey, powerquest Lost Found. About $50. http://www.powerquest.com/lostandfound/index.html It can save Most if not all of your data. Just stop screwing with the drive until you use it. I've saved my ass with this program to many times to count. Dacia --- Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr,windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-12 Thread bascule
hi lance, i'm afraid that i know nothing about win2k so i can't help you actually recover your data, but you sound pretty despondent and just want to say that if you have only tried to write to partition sectors or the mbr then your data is still intact, simply(!) inaccessible at the moment, if

[newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)

2000-06-11 Thread Lance
ok, now i've had it...i have been trying to get lilo to work on my system for awhile, and something just happened to where i can't access my windows 2000 partition that sits on my my 1st hard drive. i don't know what happened, but i have been booting into mandrake with a floppy since lilo won't

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)

2000-06-11 Thread Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Lance wrote: ok, now i've had it...i have been trying to get lilo to work on my system for awhile, and something just happened to where i can't access my windows 2000 partition that sits on my my 1st hard drive. i don't know what happened, but i have been booting into

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)Lance READ NOW

2000-06-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
and the first thing I did afterwards was create a rescue disk. Charles - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 3:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...) On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Lance w

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)Lance READ NOW

2000-06-11 Thread Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: Lance No offense meant to Paul but do not follow his advise for repairing your MBR. It Will Not Work for Win2000. The only way to restore your MBR or any part of Win2000 is if you have created a Win2000 Rescue disk(not the set of Hi Charles,

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)Lance READ NOW

2000-06-11 Thread Colin L. Whipple
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Lance No offense meant to Paul but do not follow his advise for repairing your MBR. It Will Not Work for Win2000. The only way to restore your MBR or any part of Win2000 is if you have created a Win2000 Rescue disk(not the set of 4 install disk, but a

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)

2000-06-11 Thread medpen
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Paul wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Lance wrote: ok, now i've had it...i have been trying to get lilo to work on my system for awhile, and something just happened to where i can't access my windows 2000 Best thing now, is to hope you have a DOS bootfloppy that gives you

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)Lance READ NOW

2000-06-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
installation of Win2000. Charles. - Original Message - From: "Colin L. Whipple" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)Lance READ NOW On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrot

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-11 Thread Lance
charles: Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I followed someone's advice on Linuxnewbie.org last night and went into the Win2k recovery console (**I DO NOT have the Win2k rescue floppy discs!!**), I ran the fixmbr and fixboot commands as suggested, and it said it rewrote the mbr ok (to C:). I