FIRST >>>>>>>>>>> Train..............TY

glad to know someone's payin' attention
and not afraid to speak up.

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In the first four and a half hours of Sunday morning, I have been able to accomplish the following -
1. crash hdd, Again
2. download (my close personal friend) SuSE 10.3, Again.



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with this disclaimer - i dunnit speekinzee tekininloeegikal turninnologly didn nun good -
these are the main points

>>with only the "dead and now bourne again" powered up: I went into PM and set up the 100 Gig partition you recommended, NTFS

>>as expected, Win Install disk would not recognize a drive in any of four possible slots

>>so, off too recovery....away i did go

>>A sum total of the experience is:

No Boot Entries / couldn't SCAN / couldn't ADD / couldn't REBUILD
couldn't REDIRECT - because: "Failed to update Headless Redirection Configuration"

couldn't ENABLE any SERVICE, including DEMAND_START - because:
"NO Active ControlSet Key or System registry may be damaged"

This does make sense, as this hdd was "wiped" = all 0's


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I am thinking that the 160 is probably going to remain Linux.
Unless, my next experiment works.

There would be some value to having a discrete Linux portal to the bigger world.
What better partition is there than a separate hdd. That would be a tough Dual Boot to beat.


For my next stupid trick, I'.m going to take the Seagate Unique Keys and Parent ID for the 160 and go shopping for info.............maybe find registry stuff or boot stuff............some stuff that will help the cause.


I've had enough for a while...................


Respects,



PS: anybody get the "born again" pun ?

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