[Gloucs] A word of warning

[David and Sharon]

Thanks Christian,

I always have home directory in a seperate partition, which is handy
when changing distros and also means that apart from having to change
permissions on some directories, my desktop etc. remains the same even
after a full reinstall.

I also make use of Kanotix (http://kanotix.com/) as a live cd, to access
the hard drive and also chroot to whatever is on the drive to sort out
problems like missing bootloaders!

It does remain a mystery though, how window$ can completely mess up a
perfectly good system to the extent of disabling DMA,  relabelling a
fat32 disk as 'linux' and changing drive numbers.  Unless of course this
is a precurser of hardware failure(?).

David

Christian Trapp wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> Sorry to hear your problems... My suggestion is to save your home
> directories (don't forget the hidden directories in your home
> directories) to  a save place (other harddisk etc.), then reinstall
> your Suse and copy your home directories back. In addition you can
> copy the icon and wallpaper folders to keep your icons etc. In my
> experience this is the quickest way to get a stable system up and running.
>
> If you need help, please do not hesitate to contact me ;)
>
> Christian
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