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I downloaded the latest Puppy and was looking
it over today. I copied a downloaded file to
Win-me and I saved setup when I shutdown.
Checked Windows later and it`s gone!!!
Slackware can`t see a file system. Win-me
boot disk can`t see anything. Wont run
scandisk. It`s gone!!! Anybody here had this
happen?
"I copied a downloaded file to Win-me and I saved setup when I shutdown." What file?
"Slackware can`t see a file system." Double booting from same drive or what?
All I get out of your post is that you d/l'd puppy, copied a file to winme and now winme seems to be gone.
Did you try to install puppy,try to run it from CD and mount the winme partition or what?
Sorry - but from your description there is really no way to know what happened
knudfl--I wondered about all those graphic boxes
that came on at the end. Today I installed another
HD and tried to save the setup file and carefully
read all those graphics. I didn`t see anything
there that would wipe the file system. There was
no problem this time.
crashmeister--I copied a file. What does it matter
what the file was(pet pkg)? Slackware couldn`t
see a file system. Does it matter if Slack was
on the same HD(it was) or if I mounted the HD to
a Slack system as a slave?
The bottom line is there is no longer a file
system on the windows partition. I`ve been
running linux for over 7 years now and I`ve
copied or moved a lot of files. This is the
first time a system went missing!
crashmeister--I copied a file. What does it matter
what the file was(pet pkg)? Slackware couldn`t
see a file system. Does it matter if Slack was
on the same HD(it was) or if I mounted the HD to
a Slack system as a slave?
Just asking - wasn't sure you did copy a file you d/l'd with puppy to winme or what.
It also wasn't clear to me if puppy was installed or running from CD thus the dualboot question.
Thats probably why John VV posted what he did post....
Thats probably why John VV posted what he did post....
it is a live cd but can be installed and ( if one wants ) can be stripped to fit in the /boot partition
thus the dual boot question
but if all you did was copy it to the win drive/ partition .
What command did you use ?
was it from the GUI or bash ?
is the old ntfs kmod installed or the new "ntfs-3g" ?
i had a similar problem with a wiped out windowsxp system. (i was able to get it back but required extensive work with repair on an install disk.) i was using a usb stick created with unetbootin.
In my case it was the registry file that was damaged. I use
that computer for testing and over-night downloads. I
recovered the files that I saved. My concern is how safe
is puppy? I`ve been using puppy for over-night downloads.
No problems(I havn`t saved setup again!) works great and I like it.
i think i can rule out coincidence. just for kicks i tried puppy again. very next boot xp would not run. (fortunately i now know the steps required for repair!)
Interesting stories in this thread, BTW- I've had no problems with Puppy... dual-booting, triple-booting, LiveCD, whatever... It only does what I tell it to do.
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