Major problems

[gerardwil]

I have with this box. I am now on Linux, possibily I will be away for days :cry:

Gerard

[stapp]

Good luck with your problem.

[gerardwil]

I found out all documents and emails are OK :lol:

[stapp]

Good news, perhaps you can try OA on Linux!!

[gerardwil]

Well I notice it is bloody fast but have no apps on demand running, just set my router firewall to high protection :)

Gerard

PS I can post here but not yet on our own Forum (Smokey's) :(

[MikeNash]

Crank up an XP VM :) :)

They run real quick on a good Linux box.

[Mr T.]

I have with this box. I am now on Linux, possibily I will be away for days :cry:

Gerard

May be off topic but I recently used a program called Recover my Files. It found just about everything after a reformat. It also found 300 holiday pictures off my camera card that had been corrupted. :lol:

[gerardwil]

Well I can use my XP part again. Stll have all files, folders and documents.
Took out a HD which I have to lowformat again, but not now :wink:
Cheers,

Gerard

[MaB69]

Well I can use my XP part again. Stll have all files, folders and documents.
Took out a HD which I have to lowformat again, but not now :wink:
Cheers,

Gerard

Good news :D

Regards,

MaB

[stapp]

Any idea what caused the problem?

[gerardwil]

My only idea at the moment: Murphy's Law :lol:

But to my knowledge it started when installing Paragon HD manager 8.5, I shouldn't have done that (saying afterwards) because 8.0 worked fine.
It didn't install well and wouldn't run and crippled my system. Then I started fuzzing with HD's and partitions. Something must went wrong as well. At the end I couldn't startup this box anymore. That's why I installed Linux which didn't went smoothly either because the installer couldn't read some archives. Tried, tried and tried and finally (after a lot of beer and cigarettes) BINGO. In the mean time I did a lot of other( trial and error) things, because I still had some issues. One of them: I had the Windows swapfile on the removed HD. This same HD kept poppung up faults, which I finally corrected with chkdsk :idea:
Well, as of now, everything build in again, didn't loose any file, bootloader is working fine and I can run Linux as well (first impression: cool :!: )
Have a nice weekend everyone.

Gerard

[Peter2150]

Man gerardwil

I feel your pain. I haven't had as much fun as when I was playing with Acronis Disk Director's partition table editor and it trashed the partition table. When your Windows XP CD blue screens you know your in trouble. Without windows I couldn't load drivers to see disks, when windows could see disks it blue screened. BootitNG was my savior.

Pete

[MikeNash]

Tried, tried and tried and finally (after a lot of beer and cigarettes) BINGO.
Gerard

You are a true tech! If it can't be fixed with beer and tobacco, it can't be fixed!!!

[gerardwil]

Doing a lot more excercises on this box I finally ended up with an extra partition, no single file lost, a nice working bootloader, Suse 10.3 and XP OS's
All working nice and last but not least speeded up my box a lot.
All credits to Suse which I did get on DVD just last week. (in a magazine)
Time for me now to really enjoy a beer.

Gerard

[MaB69]

Doing a lot more excercises on this box I finally ended up with an extra partition, no single file lost, a nice working bootloader, Suse 10.3 and XP OS's
All working nice and last but not least speeded up my box a lot.
All credits to Suse which I did get on DVD just last week. (in a magazine)
Time for me now to really enjoy a beer.

Gerard

Cheers Gerard :wink: