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I'm having problems getting on line. Right now, I'm running at a screaming 21,600 bps. 28.8K seems a distant dream. :-/
Also, my 120 gig drive crapped out on me. Everything is still there, and I can actually see it with Win98. I'm looking for some partition repair software that I can download, but there doesn't seem to be any freeware that'll do that for me. I guess I'll see what I can do with my ancient copy of Partition Magic.
To top it off, I made the mistake of using a brand-new installation of Win2K to get on the internet without first installing virus protection, and some kind of 'messenger service' pop-up is trying to sell me a registry cleaning program. When I get things straightened up, this partition is going to be formatted.
(like I need more stuff to do.)
Ray Drouillard
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System crashed?
mayhem to your hard drive?
Have a go with SystemRescue or PartedMagic. Both bootable CD-Rom( or USB and alike ) based OS's aimed at disk- and sytem-repair.
Apparently SystemRescue is aimed at the experienced user, whereas PartedMagic tends to cater to the lesser
gifted and M$ Windows users. Maybe you can use another system from someone, or at the library, and burn an
image to boot from.
HTH, cheers.
Jo-Anne
Thanks for the info.
That's exactly what I'm looking for.
By the way, my computer has two drives (40M and 120M,) and each has two partitions. I set up a switch that allows me to boot from either drive. When I have trouble with one drive, I switch to the other.
I recently got my brother's old copy of Win2K (He's not using it anymore,) so I loaded it, leaving the copies of Win98 alone for now.
Anyhow, I'm up and running, but I haven't reinstalled Thunderbird. I was planning on going with the portable version on a thumb drive, anyhow. I just need to make sure that I can transfer the messages from the thumb drive to an archive on the HD without trouble before I fully implement it.
Anyhow, I need to rescue the 120G drive (should have never bought a Maxtor,) take the mail data off of the system partition, and reformat it. If the drive is still physically OK, I'll load a clean copy of Win2K and set it up with all the stuff I need.
I really need to get some good advice on Linux and load a copy. I'll be able to use it for just about everything I do. I'll still need Windows for Visual Foxpro and my two scanners. I don't know if I'll be able to use the printer over the network, or if I'll have walk over to the computer in my wife's office and print from there.
Da nerd squad came in and the little guy sez, "Ya needs ta get Linux, or we'll take away your nerd card."
I just cuffed him and said, "Show me your ham license or I'll have to have your card."
:-P
Ray Drouillard
KA8UUU
No worries
*points and giggles* You said 40M and 120M! *hihihih. snort*
Oh those were the days huh? I remember being in awe over a 5Meg Wangco, maybe as big as a wagon wheel. ( uhmm, well almost ) Gaawd, how quaint. And then next when the 'personal computers' were mainstream I once owned a 486DX with 60Meg. We were like, wow! You never gonna use them things fully. S i x t y M e g s . . .
*moans* Ooh, I'm getting old. *snif*
Anyway, if you're looking for a Linux distro you might be interested in the latest Mint release Lookie lookie ahere It comes in 3 -desktop- flavours, where Gnome is maybe the best. Though I often use KDE also. I've a hard time deciding which of the two full featured desktops is the prettiest. You know, colours and the little thingies which make it nice looking and such. It's such a beautiful looking distro, imho. Oh! Um, functionality? Like under the hood? It's based on Ubuntu which is only the biggest and most supported distro at the moment.
But don't take my word, go over at Distro Watch and have a look at all the various choices they collected. Really it makes the head spin.
Um. Now I ain't got no nerd card or ham license, I don't even know what a ham license is. Is that for using your amateur band radio? I'm just an overenthusiastic user with a penchant for OSF and some accumulated knick knack knowledge.
Have fun. I hope it helped. CU
QSL? QTC 0 QRT?
( I cheated on the Q-codes, though I've sailed as an MM radio-officer ages ago.. )
Jo-Anne
Meg?
I mean K... or is that T?
[takes out false teeth and grabs cane]
You young whippersnappers have it good nowadays. Why, I had to wait until I was in high school to even touch a computer -- but I didn't get to see the computer itself. Nope, I was typing on a DecWriter over a 300 baud (no, not 3K or 28.8K or 56K) connection. When I finally got a computer of my own, I had to put it together myself. It was a Micro Ace, which is the kit version of the Sinclair ZX 80. It comes with 1K (Yes, that's 1024 bytes) of memory, but I doubled that by getting the add-on. Later, I got the ZX81 kit with the 16K (WOW!!!) module that would trash all your work before you could save it on the tape recorder if you jiggled it.
But it was cool because it had a special fast mode where the processor stopped updating the video and only crunched the numbers. It was four times faster, but the screen flashed.
Then, my cousin tog the Timex/Sinclair 2068, which had a whole bunch of memory (24K of ROM and 64K of RAM, I think) and a COLOR screen! Actually, it didn't have a real monitor. You had to use a TV.
By the way, I managed to download and burn a rescue CD. I need to try a few more things to see if I can get my 120 gig HD back. If not, I'm confident that I can rescue the data -- as soon as I have somewhere to store it.
Also, I took a quick look at Mint. I think I'll take a pile of CD-Rs to the library and download a copy.
Ray