I'm new to all of this so try to explain as best I can I noticed that my HP Pavillion has a recovery console on it's hidden partition and I want to do the same...
Hi all This is a problem I've got with my dual-boot XP/Gentoo Linux laptop. I used Ranish ... Years ... ago and although I'm not sure that it can help me here,...
... This is a bit technical (not just a bit, in fact), so you better have to browse the web in addition to the indications I give to fully debug your own case....
Get the Windows CD, boot from Windows CD, press twice R to go to the recovery console, and use the environment there to see if you can debug your case. Fixboot...
hi, i recently bought a new HDD.I had the data from my previous HDD backed up on one of my friends HDD.I installed Win xp on my new HDD and then tried to...
Hi Antoine ... I have since got hold of a Windows CD and used fixboot. It 'succeeded' but didn't help my symptoms. [snip of re-installation procedure] Thanks...
... My guess is that your problem is related to a corrupted registry. As you know, it is quite difficult or impossible to boot Windows if the SYSTEM hive is...
My boot drive has issues. The machine does not boot. I ran the "Ranish Partition Manager" on the drive. The following are in red font in the report screen: ...
Hello Antoine ... hmm, interesting. Does NTLDR actually look at the registry? I don't know much about this aspect of the boot process. Can you point to where I...
I used Ranish to succesfully clone my older hard drive to my new, larger hard drive. The only problem is that the new drive (40g) is reading as a 20 g (same as...
John, I'm no expert, but in my experience with moving operating systems from one disk to another, I have run into problems when the bios somehow gets confused...
... All of this seems pretty strange (the most surprising is "FaT 32" for "FAT 32"). I suspect some strange bootrecord, perhaps infected by a virus, or having...
... You did not use the correct tool. ... So it did not shrink, it just failed to expand. ... That is a common problem. Google for it, you'll find solutions....
Sorry to not have answered earlier, for unknown reason I missed your post. ... Yes. This is where it finds which are the "boot time" drivers that should be...
I have already tried to mount the disk in another XP machine as a slave. It indicated that the disk was not formated. Most of the other tools I have tried have...
OK, I got it better a bit now. Please understand I am just imagining what your problem can be, so I can be perfectly wrong! Your disk seems badly damaged to...
Hi Scott, If there is any data on that drive that you would like to "Rescue" .. I would get an External USB Hard Drive Adapter .. switch the Hard drive Jumper...
Is this possible? I have installed Linux on the external drive (/dev/sdb2) which is connected via a usb port. However when I boot to this partition I get...
Hi Roger, Yes you can make it happen, I just did it about 4 days ago . This Group is all about ranish , and Ranish will not be used in your case scenario so .....
Hi Antoine Thanks for your reply. My presence here has been a bit sporadic anyway... [...] ... Thanks. I know of Mark R. from my Windows programming days of...
I too would like to know how you do it. I have a new Windows computer with a USB conected external hard drive with four partions, one of which does boot when I...
I just booted Knopix and when I clicked on the drive I got an error message which said: "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblcok on dev/hda1 missing...
Hmmmmm, Sounds like it is Time for : http://www.runtime.org/ Sorry Linux did not do the job for you this time, Jesse "Scott G." <boiler77_81@...> wrote:...
Hi Sheldon, One can install and boot Linux on a USB partition (external hd) as Jesse Larocque has outlined, by reconfiguring the BIOS. However it is also...
I am trying to devise a complete backup imaging solution for a number of old servers... the servers all have 3 partitions: a Win3.11 (MSDOS), OS/2 partition...
Hello friends, Happy New Year to all of you. To the moderator, hope its ok to post such mail. This may see offtopic - how does one make custom distros for a...
I purchased a Western Digital 250 GB HD, which of course I cannot get to work. Another problem I am having is the newer systems do not come with a 3 ½ floppy...