Thread: Aaagghh!! Some days I HATE technology

Have you tried booting from a Fedora Core disk? I've managed to restore my MBR using mine once. What boot manager are you using... LILO...Grub...another????

Did you try fdisk /mbr ?

Ruslan

You can all relax.....


All fixed..... just most of an afternoon screwing around.....


Thanks for the suggestions guys..


RS652... new laptop.. no floppy drive...won't boot to a windows based CD.... made that option too hard..;-(

Omaroo, through Fedora I could get Linux going again... but the Windows part of the MBR was totally foobared

I managed to get it to boot to the Vista Beta cd.. repaired the windows boot from there and then used Fedora to fix the Grub boot loader.. nothing lost but an afternoons work....


Think maybe to morrow morning a quick backup onto the network drives might help the blood pressure next time I screw up..


Very glad not to be spending the night reinstalling and configuring dozens of programs....

Mark

what language you guys speaking???????????????

what language you guys speaking???????????????

My sentiments exactly, its giving me a head ache. Bit like the server I have sitting here and dont have a clue how to set it up with my current system, and Im not game enough to try. Maybe my 3rd attempt at my computer guy will make him come and get it going as F*&^%d if I know. If I have to copy one more disk from server to my standalone, well a grown man just might cry

Regards

Stevo

Originally Posted by stevo68

My sentiments exactly, its giving me a head ache. Bit like the server I have sitting here and dont have a clue how to set it up with my current system, and Im not game enough to try. Maybe my 3rd attempt at my computer guy will make him come and get it going as F*&^%d if I know. If I have to copy one more disk from server to my standalone, well a grown man just might cry

Regards

Stevo

I work in IT (although not pc support) and this all amuses me. As you all know I'm a total mac convert.

Since we bought ours nearly a year ago we haven't had to trash and re-install the operating system. I haven't had to track down a single driver. We haven't installed any anti virus or anti spyware solutions. The computer sits on cable 24/7 (although behind a router) and it hasn't been hacked or interfered with in anyway. The supplied software pretty much does everthing.

I work with IT for a living and I was fed up coming home and have to "work" so I could enjoy a little bit of internet time. Now I just come home and do what I want to do. It's the way it should be.

My sister inlaw showed me her new acer laptop this morning. They split the HD into two, with the second volume being labelled data. This made me think... and then I realised it's so that you can trash your operating system without loosing your data. Hows that for faith in a product... LOL.

The apple hardware is certainly better (at least in design terms), but the thing that makes them is their operating system. It's like falcon taxi compared to brand new BMW/Merc/whatever car ticles your fancy.

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

I work in IT (although not pc support) and this all amuses me. As you all know I'm a total mac convert.

Since we bought ours nearly a year ago we haven't had to trash and re-install the operating system. I haven't had to track down a single driver. We haven't installed any anti virus or anti spyware solutions. The computer sits on cable 24/7 (although behind a router) and it hasn't been hacked or interfered with in anyway. The supplied software pretty much does everthing.

I work with IT for a living and I was fed up coming home and have to "work" so I could enjoy a little bit of internet time. Now I just come home and do what I want to do. It's the way it should be.

My sister inlaw showed me her new acer laptop this morning. They split the HD into two, with the second volume being labelled data. This made me think... and then I realised it's so that you can trash your operating system without loosing your data. Hows that for faith in a product... LOL.

The apple hardware is certainly better (at least in design terms), but the thing that makes them is their operating system. It's like falcon taxi compared to brand new BMW/Merc/whatever car ticles your fancy.

I'm with you to a point.... I do Like MACs.. but the reason they are almost immune to viruses etc.. is that no one bothers writing MAC viruses as up until recently they were such a small portion of computers out there...

My machine that gave me so much grief yesterday is a Laptop that currently has multiple OSes loaded to it.. running Windows XP, the Beta 2 release of Windows Vista and well as Ferdora5 (I also have MAC OSX available to running in a virtual machine -for testing reasons)

I look after a reasonably large mainly Windows environment - 300+ Pc's, we also have a graphics studio so I also maintain about a dozen macs... along with multiple Windows and RedHat linux servers..

My main grief yesterday started after installing an Optus Wireless internet card - I have a lot of different network utilities on the PC... when I reconnected to our network.. pow.. blue screen!.... after multiple attempts to fix it.. and multiple blue screens - I ended up with a stuffed MBR..

As far as comparing the PC/MAC thing to a Falcon/BMW you are spot on... the MAC( BMW) will run like a dream... but when it does let go it is likely to be suddenly and in a big way...

At least with the PC( falcon) you are expecting it to happen..

I guess that will teach me not to use my Own laptop to mess around and try stuff...

I felt better after venting here though....

Mark

I just use VMWare on windows xp, can boot up any OS quickly and still do work in windows in the background...