Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:23:06 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Broken Win2K install
At 04:35 AM 4/06/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 07:29:34 -0400 (EDT) >From: Chris Kalos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Broken Win2K install > > My L110 recently suffered from a power surge which fried the >battery. The subsequent system crash also corrupted just enough data on >my Win2K partition to render it unbootable. > > It's a 12GB drive with Ontrack still running on it, and separated >into an 8GB NTFS partition, and a 4GB FAT partition. Since I did an OS >upgrade last time, I managed to avoid using a CDROM drive (good, since I >don't own one) but this time around, it seems that I'll need one. Does >anyone here know of a way to install Win2K Pro (the upgrade version) from >one hard drive partition to another without the use of a CD-ROM drive? You can always try putting the hard drive into another computer ... I dunno about OnTrack but with EZ-Drive, if the other computer can see past 1024 cylinders by itself then you can boot that computer's own OS and read/write to the drive (ie. without loading the overlay), as long as you don't modify the partitions structure. If thats not possible with OnTrack, you could boot your desktop with the libretto drive then copy the I386 files from the CD to the hard drive using a standard IDE CD-ROM driver boot disk (to the 4 gig FAT partition) ... All this assumes you've got a 2.5" to 3.5" drive converter handy of course. - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
