[Preston] Fedora Core3

[Granville Cousins]

Hello Dougie,

Thursday, January 13, 2005, 3:14:41 PM, you wrote:

Dougie> Microsoft Windows can be very picky about where it's installed. If it's 
Dougie> still there on a partition I'd have thought you'd be able to access it 
Dougie> somehow. How about booting from the XP install CD and doing a 'Repair' 
Dougie> (never tried it myself) or booting from a, say, Knoppix CD and then 
Dougie> running Lilo or Grub to recreate the MBR, or as Phil suggests, trying 
Dougie> FDISK /MBR from a DOS boot.

Dougie> I've got a multi-boot system (Debian, XP) and knowing how touchy 
Dougie> Microsoft can be I took some advice from the UK linux newsgroup that I 
Dougie> found useful. Don't know if it'd be any help but you can find it at 
Dougie> http://snipurl.com/bze7

Dougie> Good Luck!



Dougie> Granville Cousins wrote:

>>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