Hi,
Been there, done that. I think that you might have been able to recover your
installation with a little more info, tho.
In any case, if you are about to do a fresh install, you might consider
hanging tough for a little while longer....LM 8.2 is almost done and I hear
it is really sweet.
If you think you might want to upgrade at a later date it might be wise to
start with the latest now.
Just my $.02
Bill W.
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:37 pm, you wrote:
> Is it just *ME*!?
>
> I tried the suggestion for doing an update install of the Mandrake 8.1 and
> the whole thing went *HAYWIRE*!
>
> For some reason, it still wanted to mess around with *partitions*! I got
> mixed up and must've clicked the wrong button and it destroyed my
> partitions set up... Totally unrecoverable!... My regular windows boot
> couldn't even *see* the C:\ drive!
>
> I lost GIGABYTES and GIGABYTES of data!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> For the past 4 hours I have been salvaging my machine.
>
> I am up and running again (thanks to a recent move to making backups of at
> least *some* of my stuff) Oh, but the *LOSS*!!!!! :o(
>
> I *really* want this to work... but I can't help feeling I'm just a dumb
> prick to be meddling in things beyond my ken!
>
> But... on the positive side, I have a fresh new machine, with 10 GIGABYTES
> of free space on it (where before I had around 200MB)... and I'm at the
> stage where I can do a 'from scratch' install of Mandrake 8.1 (hopefully
> with some guidance so as to avoid another mishap... or disaster mor like).
>
> I want to re-install... but I'm totally scared I blow it all to hell
> again.... At least now I've a *lot* less to loose.
>
> Oh Man.
>
> That really freaked me out.
>
> ...GIGABYTES...
>
> PV
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