Re: dual boot - 'doze restore consequences?
- From: ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:22:05 +0000
ac wrote:
Steven Kinch wrote:later-
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:28:21 +0000, ac wrote:
I svaed a friends day (and data probably) by making it into a suse 10 dual boot with a damaged winME which woul snot go intoi safe mode and run into safe mode 0 it showed video corruption at eh top 20 mm of the display and froze.Yeah. It overwrites the MBR and makes the linuxsystem unbootable.
The machine had been well defragged fairly recently and suse 10 did a brillant and very fast job of a faultless configuration and install. For a PIII Dell Inspiron 8000.
With th eimmediate panic over, I knew th eperson woul dcontinue usin gsuse mostly, but woul dlike some win use also , so I thought how to maybe repair it. I know a Restore facility exists on win ME, but wanted to know if a win Restore woul drestore a full disk image and so would mees up th elinus partition and grub adopted bot sector, or if it was only a well behaved tool.......... :-)
Anyone know what a win ME 'Restore' does in a dual boot PC if the previous Restor point was Pre-linux partition dual boot please?
tia
However, if you then reboot rom the suse install cd and elect an install
you will be offered a chance to repair the existing system. You can
either run with the section on the boot loader or you can leave it to run
and repair all faults it finds.
It is v.cool.
Thanks!
(apologies for the hasty typos)
Restore on winME went ok, although it did not cure the all problems I saw. However, for the record, this restore (winME) did not apppear to disturb the mbr and grub was unchanged. :-)
fwiw - some of the apparent problem was that the usb mouse which was happily being used as part of the furniture at the time did not get unplugged from use when winME was taken into safe mode. After a technically proper reinstall of video driver from manufactururer's CD, it was the unplugging of the usb mouse which lost the final problem. Sigh.
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ac
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