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01-01-2004

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You're posting here and you need a computer to do that. Maybe you can disconnect the c drive from the screwed-up system and install it as a d or e drive in your good system.

Or if you can burn a cd, you can boot from that.

Or you can install a new drive in your screwed-up system and put an os on that and repair the bad drive.

Or you can contact QueTek and let them walk you through an evaluation.

Or you can take the screwed up system to a data recovery company. I'll bet you can find someone to recover the drive for less than $1000. The prices for data recovery have dropped over the past few years for cases where no hardware damage is present.

Buying a floppy may be an option too, but you will use that floppy maybe once a year. Floppies are getting mighty close to punched cards and paper tape. Old formats may never die, but they do fade to insignificance. If you don't have a cd burner, you might want to buy that instead. You will use a cd burner much more than once a year. And I'm not sure if you can fit a data recovery tool on a bootable floppy. But sure that you have a viable plan for that floppy drive.

Hmmm...the last time I backed up the C drive on this laptop I'm using was 12/08/03. Guess I better do another one this weekend. I'd hate to lose a couple of bookmarks or something.

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GRUB-INSTALL(8) 					  System Administration Utilities					   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME

       grub-install - install GRUB to a device

SYNOPSIS

       grub-install [OPTION] install_device

DESCRIPTION

       Install GRUB on your drive.

       -h, --help
	      print this message and exit

       -v, --version
	      print the version information and exit

       --modules=MODULES
	      pre-load specified modules MODULES

       --boot-directory=DIR
	      install GRUB images under the directory DIR/grub instead of the /boot/grub directory

       --grub-setup=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-setup

       --grub-mkimage=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-mkimage

       --grub-mkrelpath=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-mkrelpath

       --grub-mkdevicemap=FILE use FILE as grub-mkdevicemap

       --grub-probe=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-probe

       --no-floppy
	      do not probe any floppy drive

       --allow-floppy
	      Make the drive also bootable as floppy (default for fdX devices). May break on some BIOSes.

       --recheck
	      probe a device map even if it already exists

       --force
	      install even if problems are detected

       --disk-module=MODULE
	      disk module to use

       INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.

       grub-install copies GRUB images into /boot/grub, and uses grub-setup to install grub into the boot sector.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.

SEE ALSO

       grub-mkconfig(8), grub-mkimage(1), grub-setup(8), grub-mkrescue(1)

       The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and grub-install programs are properly installed at
       your site, the command

	      info grub-install

       should give you access to the complete manual.

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