[GRLUG] Wonky old computer

[Eric Beversluis]

I was checking out an old computer this morning--a dual boot setup with 
an early Fedora and Win98 on it--I hadn't run it for 6 or so years. 
Initially it booted up nicely to Windows (I aborted the Fedora boot when 
my flat-screen monitor didn't like the resolution it was getting from 
Fedora). But at some point it froze up and I had to power it down.

Now it won't boot at all. It gets to the point of saying it's found a 
boot at IDE 0 but then hangs. "Searching for boot record from IDE-0. .OK"

With Knoppix I can access the old Fedora files but even Knoppix doesn't 
see the Windows partition--it only sees /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, the 
Fedora and swap partitions.

Any ideas? Did the Windows partition just somehow self-destruct?

Thanks.