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Win 2000 reports C: Drive not formatted ???
This is for a FAT-only installation on the (fdisk-inactive) DOS/Windows FAT partition of a machine whose fdisk-active partition boots Unix and which has no room If I release them, there's dat ole debbil System Error SYS3175 and the desktop itself croaks, leaving nothing but a blank screen and a hung keyboard.

Art's Linux for Newbies FAQ
This means that either the root partition must be an ext2 x x filesystem, or you must have a separate ext2 partition mounted at x x /boot. x x x x Currently I believe it *should* be able to boot from an ext3 partition, but aboot-installer is being conservative (in this, if in nothing else) until I have a chance

Upgrade 8.1 to 9.1 - No LILO, no boot
Knoppix finds it OK, I can partition the disk, write to it, no problems. > > The Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer, finds it, identifies it, but with > installation on another PATA partition the GRUB boot fails with 99999's > over the screen. > > Same with Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer using expert26 and lilo: that

mac classic with scsi-ethernet?
I also tend to revert to a floppy boot when the hard drive appears to be recalcitrant. If nothing else, it has the likelihood of containing a good copy of scandisk any installation/uninstallation procedures and you are certain that all work in Office-type programs has been properly saved--IOW, that there are no

RedHat 6.0->6.1 Upgrade Error!
The installation process informed me it was repairing the registry, which took forever! Then scandisk did its thing which was amazingly slow, but it completed. Explorer error. I could do nothing. I could boot to DOS but nothing else. The system was dead. So I went to bed and wept and on Sunday I got up,

Health Care (was How Long?)
Also, when I try to install NSW2004, a screen appears that's supposed to offer several options. Instead of readable text, the options are nothing but strings of little squares. It finds lots of "suspicious" files, but no clearly infected ones. I'm thinking more and more that I have a hardware problem.

Can SBS 2000 be Re-Installed?
Knoppix finds it OK, I can partition the disk, write to it, no problems. The Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer, finds it, identifies it, but with installation on another PATA partition the GRUB boot fails with 99999's over the screen. Same with Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer using expert26 and lilo: that boot also fails

Problem with Windows Startup
This is probably one of the toughest parts of maintaining 32-bit Windows, just getting the install order down so that you can either fix it when this happens, .... Beyond that, there are no major reports of disaster with SP5, nothing significantly worse than SP3 which had its own little (but usually livable,

Registry always repairing itself - final solution
I thought a boot sector virus was a possibility, so I installed a virus scanner, but it found nothing. Am I missing something? What else can I try? .... It still looks like either remnants of a disk mangler or a BIOS HD configuration error. Doubtful, VERY doubtful. If the BIOS setting can't be matched to that by

Thinking of jumping from Win98SE to Win2k
Make sure the autoexec and config sys contain nothing else, eg, no drivers, no directions, NOTHING except the command line necessary to flash the BIOS. .... YES. but dont try to install them on a real new machine. Some of the computers made in the last few years dont have drivers for Win98.

installation on ps/2
But, everything else is working fine. Looks to me like if there was a problem with the setup or installation then something else would be wrong, not just a little com port or zip drive letter assignment. And the no booting has nothing to do with Windows being installed. The board runs great, it's stable, it's fast,

Soyo Dragon yet more problems...now no COM2???
It also formats volumes to either FAT or NTFS. While you can use the right-click from My Computer, Disk Management may be the better way to go. But, no operating system can format the drive that it is presently running on. That's why we always had to boot from a floppy to format Drive C:, even in MS-DOS and Win9x

INN FAQ Part 5/9: Other error messages and what they mean
I've tried almost every option I can find on the net and nothing will get the install CD (either 1 or 2) to boot into installation screen). I have no idea what error/root cause is stopping the install as there's no way (I can find) to break out of the install and do a pre- check of the Installs HW detection.

I've done everything that has been written here but,,,
It has exactly what I want and nothing less. But, alas, for most the task of picking what they want would be more difficult that the install itself. :-) Yep. No errors on boot. No sound card listed in system hardware information either. Hell if *I* know. sndconfig WORKED on the previous version but not now.

Trouble with new display and Device Manager
You can select either one but "hard disk" shows the usual options that you use. Bingo, he boots bypassing the BIOS check where he used to hang. and I still got the 999s :-( and no matter how many times I reinstalled Grub, either via the Debian installer CD or via Knoppix it would still give a Error 17.

(A) native Windows port
They can now boot up, log in and get themselves on the net with no intravention at all from me. I ran Mandrake 7.1 install a few weeks ago. It died with a perl script error two minutes in. There's nothing wrong with choice, and there are lots of disgruntled Windows users out there looking for something else.

Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)
close error message and then nothing else happens. (desktop stops loading) Press Control+Alt+Del and see there are no program system files loaded at all. File transferred ok, restarted but no good, same problem. Restarted using bot disk and went “edit C:\windows\system.ini” and then under [Boot] went to the

Disk read error on new 250GB boot drive
The machine has no trouble booting either into WinME or XP. As I remove the old D disk when I put in the new system disk, it also comes up as drive D. I then use The menu comes up, I choose XP, it gives me a message about a corrupt Partition Magic boot file, and then I get the blue XP login screen but no user

SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else
It will _always_ default to the c: drive, but if you want it anywhere else you a) tell it you'll manage it, and then choose the drive for it, then b) tell windows to It's no surprise, but it is annoying. The 3dfx one really threw me. What on earth do 3dfx tools have in common with an internet browser? Nothing.

SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else
First, boot the system as usual until the installation program ask you the installation method. Click on "upgrade" but don't click on "next". This is very disturbing, especially given that Linux has it's own whole hard drive with nothing else on it and lilo is there too (instead of in MBR).