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Re: Wife is going to kill me

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From: Jim DeVries
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
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tanman <tanman@lv.rmci.net> wrote:
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>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? 

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From: Jim DeVries <jdevries@pop.gate.net>
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Date: 1997/11/04
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