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  From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:32:10 +0900

Re: Biiiig LILO problems....

At 12:35 AM 18/9/99 +0930, Mark Williams wrote:
>Hi guys...
>
>Thanks for all the input, but unfortunatly it all went to waste :(
>
>But when the MBR was fixed and win2k was booting i got the dreded blue
>screen of death whihc said "invalid boot device" :(
>After a couple of shots at trying to fix that, i found my NTFS parition had
>dissapeared. I tried everything i could think of to revive it (using Disk
>Edit, disk repair utils, etc), but nothing worked :(
>I lost all my docs, my brothers yr12 docs, and my dads auto cad files. My
>fault i guess for not keeping a backup and trusting win2k to keep data safe
>:P
>
>Soo... here i am writing this email in a new install of win2k rc1.
>
>Anyway... i found some cool new stuff in win2k i think you hard-core linux
>server admins should worry about.

My goodness, you MUST be compliant!
If my OS had destroyed all my data, I'd have been screaming louder than a
stampeding bull elephant.
There is NO way I'd allow an OS that offered a proven risk of devastation
anywhere near any server.

Yet you are so happy you wish to share your joy with us.
I'm glad you're happy. 

BiBi
Brian

Brian Astill,  Visiting Research Fellow
Flinders University Institute of International Education

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