-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to LEONARD ERICKSON <=-

 RJT> The other thing that bugs me,  particularly with the keyboard that's
 RJT> being used on the linux box,  is that it's got those stupid
"windows"
 RJT> keys on it.  I know that a great majority of computer users out there
 RJT> are into that OS,  and are into mousing around rather than using the
 RJT> keyboard,  but the last time I was in a computer store I asked the guy
 RJT> if there were *ANY* new keyboards available that didn't have those,
 RJT> and the answer was an unhesitant "no".  I don't know if
that means that
 RJT> they just weren't gonna stock any,  or if it means that they didn't
 RJT> know of any available from their distributor,  or what, but I'm still
 RJT> hoping that I can find some out there.

Winblows just nuked my hard drive to the point I got the prompt
"no operating system found."

All I did was a clean shutdown and turned the box on again after
installing the last much talked about critical update
that was supposed to halt unauthorized intrusion through
a gapping security hole.

EBD gave no help at all and even LiLo got clobbered :-(
CMOS wouldn't detect the hard drive either.

But just before I gave up I entered the proper figures into CMOS
and booted with my LINUX rescue disk and lo and behold
Knoppix came right up with no problem whatsoever!

Mounted /dev/hda1 /mnt and had a look around and
the files and directories on the 98 FAT 32 partition
looked fine.

After doing a shutdown -r now from console the system
came up on the Windows emergency rescue diskette
saying I should do a "scanreg."
I did and it cycled through until there wasn't a single valid
registry backup :-(
So I ran scandisk it that pretty much vaporized anything that looked
much like Windows 98.
Yeah I had the undo disks but that too failed.
Several THOUSAND files were corrupted
and I didn't even have a Windows directory.

Took me days to get something near what I had before
doing a clean install from scratch :-(

No file attachments opened and both AVP and F-prot
were very recently updated, virus shield in place and
ZoneAlarm operating.
Took me a second or two to reinstall LiLo
so now I've again that option on boot instead of resorting to the
diskette.

 RJT> In the meantime I *do* have a couple of "IBM" keyboards
here,  and hope
 RJT> they last...

Typing on one this very moment.
One of the old heavy suckers too but the O and L keys
are worn blank.
 
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