TheLastColdBeer

Apparently I wasn't clear enough. I have installed another operating system on another hard drive. Windows will not, can not, refuses to have anything to do with, my original hard drive (now installed as a slave D:). All Windows does is ask me if I want to format D: as it only sees it as a raw, unformatted hard drive. I have tried several data recovery programs, but get the error "division by 0" and cannot read drive. The program EaseUS can read the drive, and sees the damaged MBR, along with the partion tables. All my data on that drive is still intact, but unaccessable. Unless I spend money to fully activate their program. What completely pisses me off is, a Master Boot Record is written on the first few bytes of any drive. It's the first thing CMOS sees. YOU THE OPERATOR can write your own MBR if you know what you're doing. I'm not versed in hexadecimal addressing, and I'd rather have a smart operating system correctly write tables for me. WinDuh is too stupid to do so. In other words, I've already paid Microsoft for an operating system, but it fouled itself up, and now I have to pay for a third party to correct Microsoft's FU? FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, CHKDSK, and any other system recovery commands will not work on a drive that Windows/DOS can't see.

Right you genius'. My MBR is annihilated. My partion table is scrap. Windoze will only bawl its' little eyes out and say " drive C: is raw data without a known file system........do you wish to format? FU Billy Gates......easeUS not only shows my old partion table, but can read ALL the data on said drive. I'm just a little pissed off. Is there anything I can do, without spending money, to restore my old MBR & partion table (NTFS, large drive)?? HATE, that's my emotion right now for MicroSloft. Wish I had a penny for every hour little billy billionaire has cost me. Just because a book is missing its' first page, doesn't mean you can't read the next thousand pages of story. Any boot sector magicians out there? Somebody must like typing in hexadecimal address'.

Right m8, only sovereign I've known in my lifetime. Happy Birthday HRH Queen Elizabeth II! Wouldn't King George VI be proud of his daughter.

Howdy Anvil, welcome to the forums. Good to see another half-century lad addicted to the smell of 7018.

Happy Birthday Plisken! You're A #1! You're the Duke!....Happy Birthday & have a good one.

Well Artie...Happy Birthday! Can't wait to bash yer head in on DM. Have a great day anyway!

Hey strat, Happy Birthday!

xinit is just another way to start a GUI from the command line. startx is the norm, but you can add aguments after the command to set parameters. If you're booting from a cd or thumbdrive, you don't have a file to initialize. You're booting from scratch, so you better get it right....lol. I didn't want to have to scroll through all the man pages to get my answer. If you've ever dual-booted Linux or compiled your own kernal, you know how user un-friendly it can get. Like the old saying goes, "Unix is user friendly, but it's choosey who its' friends are".

Howdy all, Just a quick question for you daily Linux users. I booted up slackware on a live cd, but X doesn't like my monitor or video card. 19" flatscreen, 1440x900 native resolution. Can't remember what card I have, but it's a 500mg Radeon 4000 series. What argument(s) do I use to get a 32bit color display @ my monitor's native resolution? Should I use xinit with arguments rather than startx? so far: startx -- -depth 32 doesn't do much. startx self configure produces what looks like a vga resolution screen that is basically useless. Thanks!

You have to remember Techno, he is a kid, and this history is ANCIENT history to him. He doesn't realize that there are people still living that went through that horror. He's also too young to realize it could happen again, anywhere, even in his own country. Young, dumb, and rich. Why bother learning anything more than what makes you money.

Danke & thanks! I have a slackware live cd laying around somewhere, I'll try that. I'm really afraid my data tables are fooked. So sad, had a lot of mp3 files from council meetings I hadn't backed up. My fault for not being diligent. Really didn't feel like crawling under the desk and fighting the dust bunnies......but it's about time. On a happier note, now I can reload cod2 w/all the stock .iwd's in place.

Howdy all, got home from a quick vacation & booted up my computer. Wouldn't boot, couldn't find autochk...etc...etc... Like a dumbass I popped in the Windoze XP installation disk and /fixmbr it. D'oh! Forgot I had the original XP pro and had updated my system to sp2 for my 300gig drive. Did I just jizz up my nts file system to the point of no data recovery? I have a spare 30gig hd or two I could install an operating system on and poke around my drive, but I'm hoping somebody else has done this. Lazy is as lazy does.......

Well Hey there eh? Happy Birthday Lojak! Have a grand day eh? (p.s. if this shows up twice, forgive me, IE & Vista don't play well on this site. Can't tell if my posts get accepted.)

Right LOM, Happy Birthday! You would be born on the 15th wouldn't you? Ought to be an exemption somewhere.

Congratulations you cheap skank. Hope you've enjoyed losing your dignity. Oh wait, you never had any to begin with. BTW, this is what Window really looks like in his work clothes.

Oooooooh Joe, how could you? I bet you broke all your toys as a kid too. You'll be on the same list Mac keeps Nickles on. btw...good work.

I'm for the CTF option. When I log in, I go where there's traffic. Most times that's the DM server. TDM seems to be a weekend morning kinda thing. Gonna get a little sparse here with warmer weather coming around. People are going to be spending more time out of doors.

Happy Birthday , have a good one. (and yeah, going outside occasionally isn't a bad thing).

Hxtr wasn't already a whore? Nothing more to look forward to now. Might as well check out......

Well, Happy Birthday Hxtr! Did you plan that post whore/Birthday thing to coincide? Cheers anyway dude!

Happy Birthday AutumnX! Prost!

LOL, Happy Birthday Flower! Cya on the battlefield!

Happy Birthday Princess.

Happy Birthday Yop, many more!

Happy Birthday Wolftis, have a good un'.