At 12:10 AM 8/17/2004 -0400, Fred Miller wrote:
On Monday August 16 2004 11:40 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
From XP again.
First, thanx to Josten Bernstsen for his message, which unfortunately was unhelpful, but not his fault. The boot cycle still hangs, even tho the "repair" program thinks everything is OK.
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Doug, I'm coming in late to this, so maybe I'm way off base here. Is the hard drive(s) new Western Digital, by chance? Of late, I've had VERY BAD luck with them.....seems they have some code in their IDE controllers that is ONLY MickySoft friendly. That is my assessment at this time anyway.
Fred
No, the drives are IBM, and the system worked fine for a couple of months. AAMOF, I just left it running Linux for the last 5 or 6 weeks, never even turned it off. All of a sudden, I could not access my media drives, and then after rebooting, I can't reboot at all. I've been off W/D drives for several years, myself. I don't think there's anything wrong with the drive whatever. I think something corrupted the file(s), don't know what, and I'm going to have to reinstall, and I'm going to lose a lot of data. At least Windows allows me to write to floppies. I was _never_ able to do that with 9.1. --doug