On Fri, 21 May 1999, L. A. Mulieri wrote:
>Hello Laptoppers,
> I am baffled by what happened to my Gateway 2100. In preparation
>for loading Linux Red Hat 5.2 I unplugged my WIN95-loaded HD (1.2GB) and
>substituted a brand new formatted HD (2.1GB). This was to only be a trial
>to see if I could access my CD with the Linux OS disk in. It looked fine,
>and seemed to start loading before I realized it would start on its own. I
>stopped the installation and powered down. Switched back to my WIN HD and
>found it booted up fine. BUT, after using an app and attempting to power
>down there was an error message saying that Windows Explorer had caused a
>fault and would be closed down (I had not been using explorer). It never
You _have_ been using (Internet-)Explorer by using MS-Winows. MS has
integrated it deeply in Windows ('95 and up) and it is used even for
displaying the desktop. To check this, boot your Windows machine, close
all visible windows and press Ctrl-Alt-Del. Then you will see that the
explorer is running.
>closed down and I continued to get this same message. After cliking power
Explorer causing a fault is not unusual. This can happen when some Windows
internal data are corrupted by some app (yes, with Windows this is
possible). When trying to shut down your Windows machine this is done by
IE (Internet Explorer). But when IE causes a fault before completing this
task, closing down Exlorer causes you to return to 'normal' operation
resulting in that you can never shut down Windows. The only thing I know
that helps in that case is to press Cltr-Alt-Del twice or to switch the
power off.
>off and then powering up again there was a menu advising protected mode
>boot-up. This was taken but was followed by message stating there was
>damaged files in Registry. A call to Gateway tech support resulted in a
When you switch power off on a windows system without shutting it down at
least the HDD's are checked. It could also damage your registry because
Windows cannot write the changes it makes in the registry (even when you
make no changes yourself). This could have caused the protected mode
boot-up which in this case can make the problem even worst, because it
initialises (deletes) some parts of the registry. My advice: when the menu
advising protected mode boot-up appears, don't use protected mode except
normal mode boot-up realy don't work.
>decision that HD had to be reformatted and Windows reinstalled.
Well, this is an answer like 'we don't know where the problem is, let him
nuke his HD'. My experience is that this will not prevent your problem
from happening again but will give you a 'clean new' Windows.
> Question: Is there any way that anything that resulted from the
>session with the 2.1HD and the Red Hat CD could have been carried over to
>the 1.2HD even if the machine was completely powered down to swap back
>from the Red Hat HD to the WIN HD? (My BIOS seems to automatically detect
>the details of the HD when I do the switch.)
I would say that there is no connection between the one and the other
session. The problem you have had can appear without even having a Linux
CD near your MS-Windows PC. So don't worry and keep trying :-).
Konstantin M�nning ,,,
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