Winders 98 is an easy fix. Boot the 98 CD, start computer with
CDROM support, get to a prompt. Hit C:, type 'dir' and see if
all the Windoze stuff is there. Then copy the 98 cab files to
the HD. From C:\ type md WIN98, cd win98, copy E(F,G,
whatever):\win98, setup /is , pull the CD and watch it fix
itself. Then have him try Yoper. It's small, simple, and a very
friendly user base. He may also be interested in Lycoris. Got a
customer who was sick enough of Winblows to go it his own route
and has been enjoying it. Loves to overhear people in the store
complain about virii and adware/spyware.
--- Timothy Bolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a friend who's on and off again with Linux. He has a
> dual boot
> system. He's tried Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, and Gentoo. He
> likes
> Mandrake. Well He installed Red Hat Fedora Core 2 and tried
> to get back into
> windows and it wouldn't allow him to. Well normally you would
> run a dos
> fdisk /mbr but it still wouldn't boot. One of his files must
> have been
> corrupted. Well he used fixmbr and I think he really messed
> it up. We have
> since then made a windows boot disk. And it say it needs a
> hal.dll which is
> there. He is thinking it's Linux that messed up his system.
> I don't think
> so. I think he messed it up when he ran fixmbr. The damage
> is done he wants
> to retrieve the files, which we can see from a windows 98
> bootable disk. So
> he is going to copy the 35 Gig to a 40 Gig and then try
> rebooting. Since we
> think it's a MBR problem now.
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