Re: A Senior Moment

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From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 16:33:04 EDT

There are a couple of minimal one-disk Linux minidistributions available; since
recent versions of the kernel can mount
NTFS drives, you might be able to use one of these to recover your files before
reformatting.

- David R.

----- Original Message -----
From: "James H. E. Maugham" <CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com>
To: "Thinkpad List" <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 9:29 AM
Subject: FW: A Senior Moment

> I originally sent this message to Bill, who has tried to help (thanks Bill),
but
> I'm still sort of stuck and thought I would throw it out for possible help
from
> you wonderful folks on the list.
>
> I've got PM 3 through 5 available, so if anyone comes up with a use for that
> here, please let me know. Jane??
>
> Worst case scenario is to borrow an outboard PCMCIA drive holder from Bill
and
> attempt to reformat from one of my W2K 600's.
>
> Regards,
>
> James the Puzzled!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James H. E. Maugham [mailto:CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 2:45 PM
> To: penzance_at_gate.net
> Subject: A Senior Moment
>
>
> Bill,
>
> HELLLLLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I'm at the point where I'm beginning to tear my hair out! System - TP755CD
Pent
> with 2.1GB drive formatted in NTFS with W2K which WON'T start! Gives me a
"The
> display driver failed to initialize" warning and shuts down on a BSOD telling
me
> to call my Sysadmin!
>
> W98 bootdisk, of course, won't recognize the NTFS drive and I can't seem to
get
> anything to run from the floppy with the exception of PartMagic bootdisk, but
> that won't convert the drive back to FAT32, nor does it recognize the drive
from
> a DOS prompt. I've got 7 other machine here running W2K, but none of the boot
> disks I've built from the CD ERU will let me access the HD on the 755CD.
>
> At this point I'd be happy if I could _just_ format the HD back to FAT16 or
> FAT32 as I intend to re-load W95 on it. But there are a couple of files on it
> I'd like to have if possible, but they're not critical.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Warm regards,
>
> James
>
>

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