Win 98 failure after trying Knoppix

[ktheking]

say alan,

did you perform proper shutdown on knoppix ?

To all => could there be a risk when a FAT32 is mounted and you are accessing it in write ,chances are that you'll get a corrupted filesystem when shutting down the hard way (ex. pulling power plug) ?

try a commercial package like pqmagic to restore filesystem.
this sometimes helps.
else try using commercial package like norton ghost to perform image creation followed by image restore.

nevertheless up until your case i've never heard of knoppix creating harddisk problems.
sure you didn't launch knoopix harddisk install ?

greetzzz,

[Alan]

Thanks everybody for the help.

After tring to back up across my network and I got very frustrated at not being familiar enough with knoppix to get it to logon to my windows network.
So frustrated that I opened the case disconnected/reconnected the hard drive, took out the CMOS battery with the power disconnected and tried to reinstall the most recent Bios update (successfully updated months ago).

I don't know what did it but something must have fixed itself and all is well once again.

I feel somewhat stupid for not trying it earlier but I didn't want to completely kill my system when I could still read the hard drive with Knoppix (perhaps I had nothing to fear).
You live and learn - now back to the job of trying to get familiar enough with knoppix to get it to do what I want (without the sweating, frustration etc!)

Thank you once again

Alan

[horo]

Hi Alan,

do you have a Dell Computer? There were some problems with (broken?) BIOS. After booting knoppix you have to disconnect the power cord for about a minute and then you are able to boot windows again.
Does your problem show up _every_ time you boot knoppix?

Ciao Martin