Ok, heres my dilema. I have a computer down(computer "A") due to improper formatting of a hard drive from computer "B"."B" being the computer I wanted to format the hard drive to. I have several pc's so instead of creating a boot disc and formatting I decided to plug in the hard drive from computer "B" as computers "A's" slave and formatting that way. Something went wrong in the process, and computer "B's" hard drive was not formatted, but now when I try and boot computer "A" it just keeps restarting. Sooo... I figured I would try to put a fresh operating system back on computer "A" but during formatting of the partition during set-up it will restart and I get an error. Computer "B" had two operating systems on it (windows 2000 pro/ SuSE) so I'm thinking since this has never happened before when I operated solely on windows alone(I've formatted the hard drive this way many times before having Linux) that it must have something to do with Linux being on the hard drive I was trying to let windows 2000 format.... Can somebody please tell me how to make computer A work again? please please please None of this would have happened if I would have done what I said to begin with and formatted B's hard drive before installing linux... (all i wanted to do was get windows off the hard drive and use SuSE only) now the comp I was gonna keep windows on is not working and the computer I just wanted linux on still has windows and linux on it... uggh
Thanks ddp... but the problem there is I no longer have the boot disk, and my new pc dont even have an A drive, so that eliminates the possibililty of downloading one assuming you can, I dunno never looked. Maybe a friend of mine still has one... I dunno... but I appreciate it... (sorry for the edit I left out something)
I'd feel kinda bad getting it right away because I dont use credit cards so I have no way of sending him 4 measley dollars @ the moment, lol thats a great price by the way... and what he does is wonderful.. I'll have to get my mother-in-law to to lay her plastic down for me...
Yes dolphin, I found my way there actually but now I ran into other trouble....since my pc does not have an "A" drive I wrote it to cd as a bootable disc and when I run it on the pc I get stuck at command prompt, Tried to reboot it again so I could give you the info, and now all I can get to is the Caldera Dr Dos screen, and it flickers and reboots itself just like the it does when I boot from hard disk. Basically, its going to keep restarting no matter how I boot. How would all this come from just trying to format another hard drive? uggh, scream, cuss, cuss
Yep, no matter what I do it just keeps rebooting and rebooting and rebooting.... even when I disconnect the hard drive and and try and just boot from disk. same scenario
Guide to creating a bootable CD/DVD without A:\ Floppy drive: http://nightowl.radified.com/bootcd/started.html
thank you guys for all your help... Yet another victory for afterdawn. yes yes yes yes yes yes yes thank you thank thank you thank you
yes it helped for the boot disk but actually while I was preparing the disc from the functioning computer I was running windows 2000 set up disc on the non-functioning (which I couldnt do earlier due to the constant restarting it was doing on its own) but instead of deleting the damaged partion i chose to set up on existing partition and in which case it deleted the existing damaged partition anyway (dont know why they give you both options if both do the same anyhow) but for whatever reason unknown, what it wouldnt do from option one it managed to do from option two.. strange right? I dont know... never seen a windows operation that wasnt somewhat quirky but still..... but getting back to the guide.. I burned that last disc all wrong and yes it helped alot. Thank you!
Most likely, option one formated the drive with a file system (ie FAT32, NTFS). Option two, which you used, kept the existing file system. In any case, it worked. Glad to hear that it all worked out for you.
