Thanks Norman I'll have a look next time I'm down at his house, it was a
recomissioned Compaq from PC world, he has downloaded a version of vista
that Mr Gates would not approve of ( niether do I ) there is justice in this
world though - the thing runs so slow its unbelievable, he use my old
machine to run games on and it goes quite well - he has been warned not to
go near the net with it, although it has a full set of discs with it.
All the best - Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] christmas again - my proverbial reqeust
Evening Bill,
My son caught
a virus on his computer ( He wiped the hard drive - including Windows -
no recovery disc???) so it kind of helped him out giving him my old PC.
Hmmm. Do you still have your son's old computer? If so, there might be a
recovery partition on the disc. If it was a DELL then the chances are
about 99% that there is.
Get hold of something like e Knoppix (Linux) live disc, boot the PC with
the CD in the drive and at a command line, type in fdisk (or fdisc?) and
see what it says when you list the partitions.
On my system it goes as follows :
(as root by the way!)
fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0003f2db
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1217 9733 68412802+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 5135 9573 35656236 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9574 9733 1285168+ 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda7 1217 5134 31471272 83 Linux
From the above you can see that I have the first partition (sda1) as a
primary partition and the rest as part of an extended partition.
Your system might show a hidden Windows (FAT, FAT16, FAT12, FAT32 or
NTFS) partition used for recovery.
Of course, if you find one, how you recover is something that should be
in your manual!
On the other hand, in your shoes, I'd simply get an OpenSuse 11.x
download and install Linux on it. QPC works perfectly under wine 1.0 -
it's what I use all the time. No windows anywhere.
Now, as for your printing problem, sorry, I cannot help!
Good luck.
Cheers,
Norman.
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