On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:17 am, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: > Keith Antoine wrote inter alia: > > Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and > > fixmbr it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the > > motherboard, could this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there a way to > > fix without losing all the data? It looks to me as if there is no way out > > but to reformat and re partition etc. > > Sounds like another partition overlay problem (Maxblast, EZDrive, > etc.). I believe these programs interact with the BIOS, so a different > BIOS will mess up how it reads the MBR. > > -- > Leon A. Goldstein > > Powered by Libranet 1.9.1 Debian Linux > System 5151
Now I see the light, as the saying goes. Yes that would account for the problem in that the new baord has these 'new fangled dual bios thigo's'. I did try the old board back in but it also was corrupted by this time. Ok lesson well learnt. Mind you have run XP after a MB change before, with R in the install section, this was the first glitch. Lesson backup to something else first. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161 Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
