RE: A Senior Moment

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From: James H. E. Maugham (CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 17:53:15 EDT

Thanks Dave, I'll keep that in mind as well. At this point, I think I'll put the
old behemoth aside until tomorrow when my wife will have her 600 home and I can
just make an NT bootdisk from it and copy the utils to it.

Thanks again all.

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Ross [mailto:ross_at_math.hawaii.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 3:33 PM
> To: Thinkpad List
> Subject: Re: A Senior Moment
>
>
> 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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