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tweakmm

Lifer
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this is what I was going to do, until i realised that my floppy drive has been dead for a month(and since I never use it, I haven't bothered to get a new one) It is just going to be easier to do a reinstall, seeing as I need to do one anyway(its been a few months) and I don't really want to buy a floppy drive right now and there is nothing important on my main partition
I have 2 drives, one drive will all my documens and MP3s and such and one that i have my OS and apps on.
 

n0cmonkey

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<< fdisk /mbr >>


this is what I was going to do, until i realised that my floppy drive has been dead for a month(and since I never use it, I haven't bothered to get a new one) It is just going to be easier to do a reinstall, seeing as I need to do one anyway(its been a few months) and I don't really want to buy a floppy drive right now and there is nothing important on my main partition
I have 2 drives, one drive will all my documens and MP3s and such and one that i have my OS and apps on.
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You can do this from the recovery console on the 2k/XP disk. Ive tried it in 2k (for other reasons) and it should work just fine.
 

gogeeta13

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<< Drugs+Beer+N00B /=(Does not equal) Linux

I am sorry to break it to you like this man, but you better stick to the bowling parties and windows
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I do my best thinking after a glass or two of Killians or rum and cokes. Mix tequila in there and dont let me touch your computer :p
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Hell yeah, coke and rum is the sh!t, next to Kaluhua Mudslide, ofcourse;)
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I had a white russian for the first time xmas eve (yeah, I went out to the bar on xmas eve before work :p) and it was pretty good. Cant replace the cap'n and coke though. I want an @rum.com email address sooooooo bad :p
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I am sure we would email ol' Capn Morgan and ask the webmaster to give use some POP3 accounts...Oh gosh, that would rock!@
 

tweakmm

Lifer
May 28, 2001
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<< fdisk /mbr >>


this is what I was going to do, until i realised that my floppy drive has been dead for a month(and since I never use it, I haven't bothered to get a new one) It is just going to be easier to do a reinstall, seeing as I need to do one anyway(its been a few months) and I don't really want to buy a floppy drive right now and there is nothing important on my main partition
I have 2 drives, one drive will all my documens and MP3s and such and one that i have my OS and apps on.
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You can do this from the recovery console on the 2k/XP disk. Ive tried it in 2k (for other reasons) and it should work just fine.
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again, something that I already tried. The system repair doesn't work, it won't do anything about the bootloader