[OT] Help: how to restore LILO/partition table

[M. Fioretti]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 05:11:02 AM -0700, Mick Mearns
(off_by_1 at yahoo.com) wrote:

>  
> > > Hey Marco;
> > >   how are the drive jumpers set?
> > Nothing changed at that level. I did not mess with anything hardware
> > in the laptop
> >  
> Sorry - I did not realize it was a laptop.
> 
> Can you remove the hard drive and install from a desktop using an
> adapter?

Not possible, sorry.
> You should be able to clear the cmos somehow.

What do you mean exactly by "cmos"? All I can do to it is to either
mess with the BIOS setup interface, or do stuff bootinf off a
floppy. Or not?


> Do you have the utilty software that came with it?
No...

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