yea, its ntfs, that explains it. I have a xp install at home which I planned to bring today but forgot so was seeing if I could do anything in he man time without it.
--- Kaleb C. Striplin Cox Auto Trader 730-Tulsa FSBO Supervisor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy > If the D: partition is NTFS, DOS does not understand that. You need to > boot into something that understands NTFS, perhaps Knoppix? Or boot > off an XP install CD and see if there's some way to "repair" or get > into a command prompt. > > Allan > > "Kaleb C. Striplin \(CAT\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> OK, got this computer that runs xp that has been screwing up now >> wont boot because its missing a file. OK, no big deal I think. I >> will make a boot disk an copy the file in from dos and see what >> happens. Wrong. Computer boots up but will not let me switch to >> the partition I need to get to the windows directory. The computer >> in question appears to have some sort of restore files on the C >> partition, and the rest on D. The reason the file is missing is >> because I tried to do the compaq restore thing and it crashed and >> didnt work now it wont boot. So I wanted to go in and put whatever >> is missing and see what happens. Next step is to just wipe >> everything out and do a fresh install. Why cant I switch to the D >> partition with my boot disk? Is there something that should be on >> there that I am forgetting about? I have not messed around with this >> stuff in a while and have forgot more about dos that what most >> people today probably know. > > -- > 1983 300D > 1966 230 > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
