Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taras Glek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > Mandrake 7.0's install destroyed my working win98 and win2000 data. > > During the install it did not recognize the partition table on /dev/hda so I > > installed it on /dev/hdd. After I successfully installed Mandrake and booted > > it off a rescue floppy(i didn;t want lilo) everything worked except for when I > > tried to boot off the hard drive. it just said "Invalid partition table". I > > could not recover ANY of my data. I have no idea why DiskDrake even touched > > /dev/hda since i immediatly switched to the "hdd" tab and partitioned hdd > > ONLY. > > didn't drakx said: > > "Partition table of drive hda is going to be written to disk!" Yes it did. But i didn't expect it to do ANYTHING since i did not change anything on hda. Besdes shouldn't there be a read only option for certain drives(like partition magic) > > > WTF am I supposed to do now? > > > > on the other note. > > 1. Could u add an NTFS module to the rescue image on the cd. > > ntfs handling is bad at the moment > > > 2. Why isn't there a RAGE128 X server in Mandrake? > > there is, tis SVGA server SVGA is not accelerated. > > > 3. Why doesn't my logitech mouse work? > > ?? I mean the wheel > > > 4. Why doesn;t DiskDrake see beyond 8Gigs of my 27gig maxtor drive. It used to > > before! > > ?? Do something about this > > > 5.Are there scripts/instructions availabl to build the 4 .iso images from the > > mandrake installation? > > 4 iso's ? I'm asking for scripts to make iso's myself since some very fast mirrors don't mirror iso files > > > 6. Why doesn't DrakFont detect fronts from WinNT > > because ntfs handling is bad it seems good enough to read files..What do u mean by bad? ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
