On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 20:24 +0100, da...@boavon.plus.com wrote:
> Many thanks for the various pieces of advice.
>
> Have just finished booting up an old WIN98 setup CD, using the F8 key
> managed to get to a shell prompt where it had loaded a few utils into a
> RAMDISK. FDISK /STATUS showed some
On 30/08/2010 12:24, da...@boavon.plus.com wrote:
> Many thanks for the various pieces of advice.
>
> Have just finished booting up an old WIN98 setup CD, using the F8 key
> managed to get to a shell prompt where it had loaded a few utils into a
> RAMDISK. FDISK /STATUS showed some partitions. De
Many thanks for the various pieces of advice.
Have just finished booting up an old WIN98 setup CD, using the F8 key
managed to get to a shell prompt where it had loaded a few utils into a
RAMDISK. FDISK /STATUS showed some partitions. Deleteing them appeared
to work, but then when trying to writ
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:21 +0100, da...@boavon.plus.com wrote:
> I'll try to be sucinct as possible, but also explain as fully as I can.
>
> Booting up, I get the grub menu. Choosing any of the 4ish(?) Ubuntu
> choices (exept restore versions) results in hung system. Choosing XP
> results in hun
Have you tried going to the disk manufacturer's website to see if they have
a diagnostic live cd image?
It sounds like a dead disc, the diagnostic tool might tell you more
Anton
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On 30 August 2010 16:21, wrote:
> I'll try to be sucinct as possible, but also explain as fully as I can.
>
> Booting up, I get the grub menu. Choosing any of the 4ish(?) Ubuntu
> choices (exept restore versions) results in hung system. Choosing XP
> results in hung system. Choosing one of the
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:21 +0100, da...@boavon.plus.com wrote:
> I'll try to be sucinct as possible, but also explain as fully as I can.
>
> Booting up, I get the grub menu. Choosing any of the 4ish(?) Ubuntu
> choices (exept restore versions) results in hung system. Choosing XP
> results in hun
Sounds more like the disk is pretty much dead, not just the MBR. If
you can't make changes to the disk, either the controller or the disk
are broken. If the disk doesn't work on a different PC, it sounds like
it's the disk.
I suggest you try a different HDD in your main laptop.
Cofion/Regards, Nei
I'll try to be sucinct as possible, but also explain as fully as I can.
Booting up, I get the grub menu. Choosing any of the 4ish(?) Ubuntu
choices (exept restore versions) results in hung system. Choosing XP
results in hung system. Choosing one of the restore options results in a
scrolling scre
On 29/08/2010 12:20, da...@boavon.plus.com wrote:
> I have spent best part of today trying to rescue my 20GB hard disk from my
> beloved Toshiba Portege running Ubuntu 10.4 and XP on a partition that is
> hardly used.
>
> Last updates must have screwed my MBR (I'm guessing but may be wrong about
>
I have spent best part of today trying to rescue my 20GB hard disk from my
beloved Toshiba Portege running Ubuntu 10.4 and XP on a partition that is
hardly used.
Last updates must have screwed my MBR (I'm guessing but may be wrong about
the updates - but do reckon the MBR is no longer any good)
I
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