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Article #327Re: Wife is going to kill me
From: Jim DeVries
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
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tanman <tanman@lv.rmci.net> wrote: <snip> >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. Does FDisk still show the first (or only) partition still marked as active? -- Jim DeVries <jdevries@gate.net> '65 Monza - '94 Saturn SL2 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of a contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." John Stuart Mill, from 'On Liberty'
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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: 109e38,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public From: Jim DeVries <jdevries@pop.gate.net> Subject: Re: Wife is going to kill me Date: 1997/11/04 Message-ID: <63o7th$k72$1@news.gate.net> X-Deja-AN: 287995212 References: <3479776b.16050497@read.news.globalnet.co.uk> <344FEBAF.6889@ix.netcom.com> <34519927.58B7@indiana.edu> <630uk7$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> Organization: Alpine Engineered Products Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc