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12-30-03, 07:59
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Boot up problems
I was using a linux boot loader before everything went to hell and back. Now all i get everytime i boot up is L99 repeated over and over again on the screen. Thing is I've managed to format windows which didn't help at all. So now i need a way to format a linux partition form the prompt. If no one has any beter ideas I'm going to go off and see what i can do by booting off mandrake.
Btw I like the new Forum, it's very Xp. Note Simon & Garfunkel - el condor pasa, is quiet and excellent song.
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12-30-03, 08:06
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I'm abite to advanced for my own good. I've nothing lying around that will allow me boot into DOS to get fdisk. Might go check that box under my bed for a windows 95 boot disk, now that i think of it. thanks.
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12-30-03, 08:08
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if you can't find one.. perhaps you can try Partition Magic by Powerquest?
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12-30-03, 08:25
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If you dont find one lurking under your bed Joe try HERE and download one...
or I could email you the files off my WinME bootdisk I keep under my keyboard for such emergencys 
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12-30-03, 08:27
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Boot disks for all your booting needs
 http://www.bootdisk.com {Edit} Wow, ya beat me to it, Halo Joe, they've even got a Linux section: http://www.bootdisk.com/linux.htm
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12-30-03, 08:33
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Partition Magic Failed to boot off the CD for what ever reason. Found a really old Gateway Boot CD and got a dos prompt of that. Hopefully this will work.
That is an great link Halo, Downloaded the windows Xp boot thing. Didn't realise it required a floppy Drive, I do most things on USB pen drives these days. Edit: anywho that did work. Basically what happened was, when my adsl modem was being the Pleb is usually is i clicked the power switch off and on really fast, forgettign that i wasn't on the laptop but on the main PC, and well this is the result. I've tried everything i can think of at this stage, resetting the cmos, formatting and the like, and i still get this L99 L99 L99 ... ect. The moderboard Postman seem to indicate all is well,
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I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldnt screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches Id never see. I wanted to breathe smoke. Last edited by Joe; 12-30-03 at 08:37..
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12-30-03, 10:51
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Reinstalled linux as well, its starting to occur to me that maybe its going like the floppy drive gone bang.
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12-31-03, 05:18
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Right so nothing worked, at the stroke of midnight i danced around the hard drive three times and recited the hail mary backwards, surprisingly it didn't work. Then i noticed condesation on me grapjics cards, water system was leaking in some way. Fix it up and all back to normal now.
BTW did anybody get that song, it's good
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