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<div>(BTW I hope you all use software that threads emails, or this will probably not mean anything to you now !)</div>
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<div><span class="e" id="q_103b67e065658ca0_1">I've got all grub back, and in Ubuntu I can see all partitions. So I'm going to back up my C Drive to my D Drive (different partitions, same disk - but best i can manage)</span>
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<div><span class="e">Then I may remove and recreate the Primary DOS partion that's causing the trouble and copy the files back.</span></div>
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<div><span class="e">I know this works for OS/2, but I've never tried with windows - will it all still boot ?? </span></div>
<div><span class="e">(I'm assuming I'll copy all the files - they won't be locked because I'm in linux not windows)</span></div>
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<div><span class="e">Also, the grub error is now clear - Error 18 - I've found plenty of fix suggestions that sound good, but none applicable.</span></div>
<div><span class="e">ie it worked until I messed (usually this is an install problem apparently), I cannot change my bios between LBA AUTO etc - and anyway it worked before........</span></div>
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<div><span class="e">I do get errors from fdisk, ie Number of cylinders for this disk is set to 20320. may cause problems.</span></div>
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<div><span class="e">But, again, it worked before.......</span></div>
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<div><span class="e">Any ideas ???</span></div>
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<div><span class="e">Any more info I can give you guys ??</span></div>
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<div><span class="e">Tim.C</span></div>
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<div><span class="e">ps so far 2 outcomes of this situation</span></div>
<div><span class="e">1) I'm learning Linux incredibly fast</span></div>
<div><span class="e">2) My wife is getting really annoyed at not being able to use the PC !! </span></div>