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re: Boot fails after asking for 'dfs.vxd' file.
Friday, March 10, 2006 at 1:15 am
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Posted by gewg_ (3936 messages posted)


|For starters the re-install wiped my Linux partition
| Jon

Are you sure it didn't just clear out your boot loader?
Microsoft is a real bastard when it comes to the boot sector.
Windoze always thinks it is the *only* OS
and overwrites the boot sector without any consideration.

Getting Linux back may be as easy as this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=reinstall-LILO




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re: Boot fails after asking for 'dfs.vxd' file. (Jon: Friday, March 10, 2006 at 12:28 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Boot fails after asking for 'dfs.vxd' file. (Jon: Sun, Mar 5, 2006, 6:54 pm)
-re: Boot fails after asking for 'dfs.vxd' file. (Kiwi: Mon, Mar 6, 2006, 4:58 am)
-re: Boot fails after asking for 'dfs.vxd' file. (Jon: Mon, Mar 6, 2006, 5:35 am)
-re: Boot fails after asking for 'dfs.vxd' file. (Kiwi: Tue, Mar 7, 2006, 4:36 am)
-re: Boot fails after asking for 'dfs.vxd' file. (Jon: Fri, Mar 10, 2006, 12:28 am)
*re: Boot fails after asking for 'dfs.vxd' file. (gewg_: Fri, Mar 10, 2006, 1:15 am)
*re: Boot fails after asking for 'dfs.vxd' file. (Kiwi: Fri, Mar 10, 2006, 9:51 pm)
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