Re: Wife is going to kill me

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From: Justin Wayne Malinosky
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 00:00

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tanman (tanman@lv.rmci.net) wrote:
: Since my wife will be out of town until Mon, I decided to fool around
: with her computer and install win95 so I could play with it instead of
: using my system.  Well all hell broke loose and I had to uninstall it.
: All of a sudden the computer would not boot into the C Drive.  So being
: a nitwit, I reformated the C drive hoping this would do the trick.  But
: it still will not boot up in C.  I have to use a Emergency disk in the
: Adrive to boot up.

Assuming that you have all the OS files on the hard drive that you need,
it sounds more like you forgot to set the partition to "Active" in FDISK.
I don't remember which option it is for sure, but I think it's option
number 2 from the main menu. I've done the same thing before and had the
same symptoms. Good luck.

-- 
Justin Malinosky
Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, Davis

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From: malinosk@cs.ucdavis.edu (Justin Wayne Malinosky)
Subject: Re: Wife is going to kill me
Date: 1997/11/03
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