[Wolves] Hello - first post from me !

[Tim Childe]

<SMUG MODE>
 Well, I refused to give up and wipe my PC.
 Tonight the needs of windows was so great that I took the risk and sorted 
my problem.
 This is what I did, can anyone now work out what happened ????
 To fix it, I backup up ALL of my C drive, to my 'D drive' using Linux
 From a Win98 boot floppy,I removed and recreated the primary partition (C 
drive) and formatted it
 I also did a quick SYS C: just to be sure, though I don't think that was 
necessary.
 I then went back to linux and copied back all the files I'd backed up.
 Reboot, and grub orked and I got a C:\> prompt, but not win98
 A quick scratch of the head and i realised that linux would not be able to 
reset the attributes properly.
So 5 minutes typing ATTRIB +H +S <filename> and all is now well !!!!
 </SMUG MODE>
 I think my AV has vanished from the boot sector, but a quick reinstall 
should sort that, and hopefully not screw up grub again.
But I can't risk that until my wife has done the work she needs for 
tomorrow.
 BTW If the pdf reader and prnter driver in Ubuntu had been any good, I 
wouldn't have needed windows !
That's my next task, along with getting sound, and my Wacom to work properly 
!!!
 Thanks for all the help.....
  Tim.C
 

 On 5/12/05, Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 
> Hi, sorry I've had to let this thread slide for a
> while I've been away, ill and busy.
> 
> Just in case you installed grub to the hda1 (Windows
> C:\>) boot sector like we thought I found this:
> 
> http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/grub_install_hda1.html
> 
> It may not be the answer to the problem but it's worth
> a look.
> 
> I now have my own problems which I will be posting in
> a few seconds.
> 
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Tim.C
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