[Preston] Fedora Core3

[Granville Cousins]

Hello Phil,

Thursday, January 13, 2005, 2:54:11 PM, you wrote:

Phil> You need to boot to a command prompt using DOS, this can be done from a boot 
Phil> floppy or bootable CD. Then type FDISK /MBR at the command prompt. This will 
Phil> restore your Master Boot Record and allow the machine to boot into windows.

Phil> :-)

Phil> Regards,

Phil> Phil Robinson

Phil> ----- Original Message ----- 
Phil> From: "Granville Cousins" <granville at yogawithgranville.com>
Phil> To: "PLUG" <preston at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Phil> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 2:43 PM
Phil> Subject: [Preston] Fedora Core3


>> Hello PLUG,
>>
>> I tried to install it on my desktop PC but I'm afraid the installation
>> did not go well. I had already a Fedora Core 1 installation on my
>> second hard disc in the PC. I chose to Upgrade the new Fedora Core 3
>> installation and after receiving notification that the installation
>> was successful, when the computer rebooted it paused and would not
>> complete. I retried but it failed again at the same point. So I tried
>> the installation this time choosing to install a completely fresh
>> installation. This also failed. I then tried to install choosing to
>> install as a Server. This then gave disastrous results as the messages
>> I were receiving were saying that there was no access to any of the hard
>> drives. Even now on a reboot the message I get is that there is no
>> operating system installed. The computer does have Windows XP installed
>> in fully working order. So the state of play now is that my computer will
>> not boot up into anything including Windows.
>>
>> I think the best option would be to completely remove any Linux
>> installations from the computer and get back to just running Windows
>> XP on this computer. And then proceeding possibly with Linux on a
>> complexly different computer to avoid this type of thing happening
>> again in the future.
>>
>> What do you think, and is it possible to retrieve my Windows without
>> having to perform a complete system recovery which would me mean
>> wiping the hard disc and loosing my data?
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Granville                          mailto:granville at gcousins.wanadoo.co.uk
>>
>>
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Hi Guys,

I eventually had to reinstall Fedora Core 1 and everything is as it
was before I tried the Fedora Core 3 installation. I am quite
disappointed though as the only installation of Linux on my machine
that really performed was RH9. I am under the impression that in order
to really go far with Linux it would be better to acquire a machine
with a Linux installed and in full working order. I know that this is
probably cutting out allot of learning but in the long run it would be
less time consuming and that is how I became familiar with Windows in
that I more or less started from a fully working installation.

What next????

-- 
Love and Light,
 Granville                            mailto:granville at yogawithgranville.com