Saturday, 06-May-2000 02:12:17
204.244.183.22 writes:
My machine is a 266 Celeron- no cache
4 gig hard drive.
Partitioned so that 3 Gigs are for win 98
I installed Corel Linux but I must have clicked No, where it should have been yes.
My linux ran incredibly slow. In the grahpical interface I opened a window. Then opened a second window. It took about 15 minutes with the hard drive working steadily to close window 2.
I must have cancelled the creation of the swap file. I tried to make a swap file - did not work.
I could not see how to remove linux and start over, so I ran pqmagic and stretched my 3 Gigs to 4.2 (maximum) thereby deleting Linux. However my next 2 or 3 bootups used the Linux opening window for choosing which operating system. I picked Windows and it opened fine. Then I noticed that my CD would not read. I rebooted and got only a LO (the LI did not appear) This must be in the boot record somewhere.
1. How do I remove it so that Windows will boot normally?
2. I cannot reinstall Windows because the CD drive does not work. I boot with a Win98 rescue disk, Choose CD support, and it will not recognise the CD. I took a working CD out of a good computer, but it would not recognise that one either. How do I start over without reformatting and losing all my Windows files?
I sure would appreciate some help.
Thanks in advance.
Richard Andres.
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