Thanks, guys, I'll try it. Hopefully something will work.
P.S. I was right, you guys are faster than tech support.
-Jon
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>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows Protection?
>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:50:25 -0700 (MST)
>
>Your mom's probably going to kill you. It sounds like you corrupted
>windows
>pretty good. Ever backed up anything before? If you can get into safe
>mode,
>do that and back up any and all DATA (not programs) you have. Then you'll
>probably have to reformat the hd.
>
>It sounds as though you interupted PM while it was rearranging things.
>That's
>bad.
>
>One other thing you can try is boot to command prompt only and type
>'scanreg
>/restore' at the prompt. Try to reboot.
>
>If it's Win98 it MIGHT also reinstall over the top of itself, but I
>wouldn't do
>that - I'd format.
>
> > Below is a copy of a problem that I sent to the tech support at
>Linuxcare. I
> > figured someone here might know something to help and be able to answer
> > sooner. Please help me out here. By the way, I also went to
>PowerQuest.com
> > (Partition Magic's developers) and checked out their help files and
>asked
> > them what to do. They had a solution but it doesn't work on my machine
> > (something about not having a smartdrv.exe file). I am so lost here and
>will
> > appreciate any suggestions.
> >
> > I've just bought McMillan's The Complete Linux Operating System 6.5
> > My computer has an AMD-K6 3D processor and 32 megs of ram a 6.2 gig
> > hard drive and is made by Proteva. The OS that came with this package is
> > Linux, distribution Mandrake 6.1. My audio card is a SoundBlaster
> > compatible and my vid card is just standard (don't know specs, 2 megs of
> > vidram I think...). If you need any info that would be on the system
> > resource report I have a print out that I did right before I destroyed
>my
> > computer. Here goes: the package comes with a version of Partition Magic
>and
> > while that was running I think I pushed ESC or something because it
>looked
> > like it was frozen. This was at about 50% complete I think. Then it
>shuts
> > off and the machine restarts. It comes up to the screen asking if I want
> > safe mode or command line only and all of those things and I thought
>this
> > was normal so I inserted the installation CD and restarted. When I used
>Disk
> > Druid I
> > realized something was wrong because it didn't acknowledge the Linux
> > native and swap partitions I thought I had created with Partition Magic.
>So
> > I restarted and ejected the CD and got back to the query screen as to
>which
> > way I wanted to load. SO I chose safe mode (and later all of the other
> > possibilities to load Windows 98) and every time it said "Windows
>protection
> > error. You need to restart your computer/ Press a key to continue..." so
>I
> > do and it happens again on every option except "safe mode and command
>prompt
> > only" or "command prompt only". The only thing is I don't know what to
>do
> > about only being in the command prompt. Please help me or my mother will
> > kill me.
> >
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>Ty C. Mixon
>F.T.C. Enterprises
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