We realised it was a bad idea to have no prompt, but we figured that the disks would only be used for this specific purpose, and only by a few people, all of whom were very experienced, so we figured we were safe. So, when booted, the machine would just go and wipe the Partition and boot sectors. As we had hundreds, he decided to bypass any prompts. The solution we found was to correct the geometry in the Bios, delete the partition and boot sectors, and re-image the machine.Ī colleague setup a bootable floppy with with a killdisk progam.
IIRC, some our machines had been imaged with the wrong hard disk geometry set in the Bios, and it was causing problems. A few years ago, we had a few problems with some of our machines at work. Re "The SystemRescue USB writer is text-based and menu-driven, and much less scary than running the dd command and possibly accidentally over-writing your hard disk."īeen there, done that.
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And people say Linux is too hard to install *now.* Luckily her ex-B/F had kept a backup on a DVD-R and we were able to reinstall it and get almost everything back. but with all of WinXP totally gone, along with all her data and coursework.
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She had nuked the hard disk, repartitioned it, done a full install, successfully mind, it had autodetected her graphics, network and sound cards, and my broadband, and she was online again. I tried to elicit more info but all she knew was that all her stuff was gone and there were pictures of penguins everywhere. Then she phoned me, while I was at a client site fixing a network issue, and said "Liam, I tried to do something on my PC, and now it has _penguins_ all over it." It booted into the installer, so she just kept hitting "yes" and "OK". Then it autoran a Windows program which told her to reboot. She tried the burn, hit "OK" until it stopped nagging. She *ACCIDENTALLY* installed Mandrake Linux on her PC without knowing. It was actually fine just finalisation failed. It was a bad burn that I put back on the spindle, without checking. One of my lodgers, about 20Y back, "borrowed" what she thought was a blank CD from the spindle in my office and tried to put a naughty copy of some app on it.
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