From: James H. E. Maugham (CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 15:29:07 EDT
I originally sent this message to Bill, who has tried to help (thanks Bill), but
I'm still sort of stuck and thought I would throw it out for possible help from
you wonderful folks on the list.
I've got PM 3 through 5 available, so if anyone comes up with a use for that
here, please let me know. Jane??
Worst case scenario is to borrow an outboard PCMCIA drive holder from Bill and
attempt to reformat from one of my W2K 600's.
Regards,
James the Puzzled!
-----Original Message-----
From: James H. E. Maugham [mailto:CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 2:45 PM
To: penzance_at_gate.net
Subject: A Senior Moment
Bill,
HELLLLLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm at the point where I'm beginning to tear my hair out! System - TP755CD Pent
with 2.1GB drive formatted in NTFS with W2K which WON'T start! Gives me a "The
display driver failed to initialize" warning and shuts down on a BSOD telling me
to call my Sysadmin!
W98 bootdisk, of course, won't recognize the NTFS drive and I can't seem to get
anything to run from the floppy with the exception of PartMagic bootdisk, but
that won't convert the drive back to FAT32, nor does it recognize the drive from
a DOS prompt. I've got 7 other machine here running W2K, but none of the boot
disks I've built from the CD ERU will let me access the HD on the 755CD.
At this point I'd be happy if I could _just_ format the HD back to FAT16 or
FAT32 as I intend to re-load W95 on it. But there are a couple of files on it
I'd like to have if possible, but they're not critical.
Any thoughts?
Warm regards,
James
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