[olug] Corel Linux Reformat

[Schmeits, Roger]

I just went through this last week.  My mistakes are as follows:
1) check the CMOS settings for the hard drive. On mine the cylinders, heads
and sectors was right but i had the advanced setting wroing. i.e. LBA?
2)make sure your startup disk is clean and functional ( mine was bad - had
been sitting on the shelf too long I guess)
3)"fdisk /mbr" command is esential for win95 to see the hard drive.

Good Luck.

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Bunnigrrrl [mailto:bunnigrrrl3 at home.com]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 12:03 PM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: [olug] Corel Linux Reformat


Hi,

Does anyone know of a way I can reformat my Corel Linux box back to 
Windows95? (Normally I wouldn't do this, but I don't think my 90 year-old 
grandfather is ready for Linux!). There is a DOS prompt option on startup, 
but if you choose that option, it just says "non-system disk error, press 
any key when ready" and goes back to the menu. Since I can't even get into 
DOS, I can't begin to imagine how I would do a reformat. (It's a Pentium 75 
with 48 MB of RAM).

Thanks,
Angela

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