Destroyed? Are you sure?... Might just be the file system that died. Make new partitions. One for linux one for windows... Correct format them and thats all.
I've had customers bringing "dead" harddrives... 80% of the times the only dead thing they had was the filesystem. The other 20% were hardware failure. In fact, yesterday a harddrive got in short and burnt half PSU wiring and my brothers finger hehe.
Blame the customers for not saying that it was in short circuit.
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I did everything you discritpted and even rewrote the mbr but the thing didn't start working so I led a friend check it again and he had the same problems
Inf0Byt3 wrote:Thanks! BTW, do you know any linux API books or online docs, anything? I want to learn to program in lin but I need API to get some nice effects (just like on Win)...
Good job. I too am about to make this move. And I will be earning my living programming Windows under VMWare. So it can be done.
Nik wrote:I personally would like to use Linux fulltime but I must use it to test our client on Windows, So I can only use Linux 90% of the time on my Notebook, also my mum doesn't want me to install both windows and Linux on my main pc since it destroyed my HD when I tried this the last time...
Fedora Core 2 and some other distros had this problem for a bit where it would render the windows partition unbootable. I forget the exact cause but thats been fixed. That was a few years back I think.
It worked for me every time: I sucessfully co-used win with the following: Mepis, Ark, Slackware, Ubuntu, Debian and Mandriva. However, never got any problems. I was first installing Windows first then resize a partition to make room for lin. Then I installed it normally and Grub/Lilo were doing a great job. I don't know why this doesn't work for you Nik... It's pretty strange...
Good job. I too am about to make this move. And I will be earning my living programming Windows under VMWare. So it can be done.
well, as you switched to linux and left windoze, if you REALLY want to make something open source the people WANT, then you'd better switch to a C/C++ language, as it is the most used one in open source software, especially on linux.
Inf0Byt3 wrote:Thanks man... I was thinking to VmWare myself too .
Then your desktop will look like this (pops):
This is my Ubuntu box running both Windows 98 and Windows 2000 Pro in separate VMWare images (under VM Player - the free runtime version). Of course, PB 3.94 Linux in background.
I have VMWare player on win, and I don't find the speed very good on a non Hyperthreading or dual core system, what do you think?
I'm also glad to see that the player has a much more serious looking window on linux.
Oh and it's needed to recompile the kernel that's ugly^^
For Linux on Windows - use Beach's PureWinLin with KarlKox's Qemu accelerator (search the forum for PureWinLin). I only recommend VMWare when running Windows under Linux.
BTW, it is a very clean install. I have no performance issues, but I am also running them under 2GB of RAM on an Athlon 64 X2 4400+.
2GB of RAM? WOW... I downloaded VmWare Player but I'm updating the system and I have the database locked ^^ so I can't try it now. I hope there will not be any speed issues on my computer. When I was emulating lin under win it was a bit slow, but it's not the case now. I bet it'll work much better. PureWinLin was cool but very slow for me. I must recompile the kernel to use VmWare ? That's pretty uncool...
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. (Goethe)
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WOW... I downloaded VmWare Player but I'm updating the system and I have the database locked ^^ so I can't try it now. I hope there will not be any speed issues on my computer. When I was emulating lin under win it was a bit slow, but it's not the case now. I bet it'll work much better. PureWinLin was cool but very slow for me. I must recompile the kernel to use VmWare 
. Any solution?