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Article #325Re: Wife is going to kill me
From: Don Autry
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
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1. buy a bullet proof vest. 2. remove all sharp objects from house. 3. remove all blunt items which can be used as a club from the house. 4. hide all your monetary assets. 5. hire a lawyer. 6. hire several large gentlemen as bodyguards for monday and a few days following. 7. when your wife gets home, run like hell. -- thanks to spam bots, my address is despammed, if you are a real person, you should be able to figure it out. tanman <tanman@lv.rmci.net> wrote in article <345CA2FE.F88F3734@lv.rmci.net>... > 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. > > Then after I get the dos prompt in A, I cd to C and do a check on the C > drive using different utilities which shows the c drive is there and no > errors on it. I used MSD, Norton, and PC Tools and they all show the C > drive is there and formated to 450 megs and everything in order. > > However as soon as I take the emergency disk out of the A drive and > power on I get the bios showing 32 megs of ram and then showing 1 fixed > HD, 1 floppy drive, 1 Parrallel port, 1 serial port like it should, but > then it stops the screen is blank with a little blinking cursor in the > upper left of the screen. I have to ctl-alt-del and insert the > emergency disk and then it works. > > Can anyone help me out before the wife gets home so I can get this > system working again. All info would be appreciated. I. I will be > monitoring the NG and Email very closely hoping some knowledgeable > person can get me out of this fix. > > Thanks in advance. Don > > > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8e37,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public X-Google-Thread: 112149,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid112149,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public From: "Don Autry" <don.autry@gov.nasa.msfc> Subject: Re: Wife is going to kill me Date: 1997/11/04 Message-ID: <01bce964$814adde0$76b79e80@autrydl.msfc.nasa.gov> X-Deja-AN: 287966508 References: <3479776b.16050497@read.news.globalnet.co.uk> <344FEBAF.6889@ix.netcom.com> <34519927.58B7@indiana.edu> <630uk7$d2e$1@siesta.packet.net> <631rae$588@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <6345ni$8f1$1@dove.qut.edu.au> <34569f01.3945771@news.v-wave.com> <63757v$dt6@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <63gvrp$h0t$1@news1.epix.net> <345CA2FE.F88F3734@lv.rmci.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.msfc.nasa.gov X-Trace: hammer.msfc.nasa.gov 878677149 14543 (None) 128.158.183.118 Organization: NASA/MSFC Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc