<div><SMUG MODE></div>
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<div>Well, I refused to give up and wipe my PC.</div>
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<div>Tonight the needs of windows was so great that I took the risk and sorted my problem.</div>
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<div>This is what I did, can anyone now work out what happened ????</div>
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<div>To fix it, I backup up ALL of my C drive, to my 'D drive' using Linux</div>
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<div>From a Win98 boot floppy,I removed and recreated the primary partition (C drive) and formatted it</div>
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<div>I also did a quick SYS C: just to be sure, though I don't think that was necessary.</div>
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<div>I then went back to linux and copied back all the files I'd backed up.</div>
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<div>Reboot, and grub orked and I got a C:\> prompt, but not win98</div>
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<div>A quick scratch of the head and i realised that linux would not be able to reset the attributes properly.</div>
<div>So 5 minutes typing ATTRIB +H +S <filename> and all is now well !!!!</div>
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<div></SMUG MODE></div>
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<div>I think my AV has vanished from the boot sector, but a quick reinstall should sort that, and hopefully not screw up grub again.</div>
<div>But I can't risk that until my wife has done the work she needs for tomorrow.</div>
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<div>BTW If the pdf reader and prnter driver in Ubuntu had been any good, I wouldn't have needed windows !</div>
<div>That's my next task, along with getting sound, and my Wacom to work properly !!!</div>
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<div>Thanks for all the help.....</div>
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<div>Tim.C</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Sweet</b> <<a href="mailto:drinky76@yahoo.com">drinky76@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi, sorry I've had to let this thread slide for a<br>while I've been away, ill and busy.<br><br>Just in case you installed grub to the hda1 (Windows
<br>C:\>) boot sector like we thought I found this:<br><br><a href="http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/grub_install_hda1.html">http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/grub_install_hda1.html</a><br><br>It may not be the answer to the problem but it's worth
<br>a look.<br><br>I now have my own problems which I will be posting in<br>a few seconds.<br><br>Ad<br><br>--<br><br><a href="http://www.drinky.org.uk">http://www.drinky.org.uk</a><br><br><a href="http://blog.drinky.org.uk">
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