WINDOGS

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If u can get a copy of Partition MAgic, it has a utility that will change
all the references in the windows registry to the drive letter u want.  I've
used it and it works great..  Than u can just say make all references to D
point to F.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Lawton" <green_man at bluefrog.biz>
To: "NFLUG" <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:55 PM
Subject: WINDOGS


> I got the machine home and put the drives in, but it wouldn't detect the
> Primary master. After 5 reboots and cable position swapping, I have
> determined that part of the problem must be a bad IDE cable. If the
> drives are in the bays, the BIOS will detect the drive connected to the
> plug at the end of the cable, but not the one connected to the middle.
> If that drive is left dangling by the cable, instead of mounted in the
> drive bay, all is fine. Go figure !!
>
> All my progam paths are screwed up now because of the addition of the
> second drive. What used to be D: is now F:. If  I swap the jumpers so
> what is master will be slave, and what is slave will be master, in order
> to make D be D again, will the blow out LiLo again ?
> There will still only be Mandrake and Win 98.
>
> I have unpartioned space left on the drive with Win 98. Is it possible
> to some how move the Mandrake "en masse" to that space so I can try to
> fix Windogs ?
> Windogs is listed as a file now, not a directory. I want to try to fix
> it, and one of the install options on my old copy of windows [ on 13
> floppies ] is repair/replace missing or corrupted files, but it would
> rewrite the MBR again.
>
> --
> "We're all mentally ill - some people just hide it better than others."
> Stephen King
>
> Scott
> Mozilla 1.0 mail on Windows 98 SE
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