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Originally posted by andrewas:
1) That connector was poorly designed, it seems to be *very* prone to getting jamed. I've broken skin pulling those things out. Best way is to work it horizontaly, that distorts the socket and might just let you get it.
Also, some manufacturers have their monkeys *glue* the cable in. This is evil, but a stanley knife will sort it in no time. On the glue, not the cable.
2) Yes, but if you use the basic tools you will lose all data not backed up. Programs like partition magic will let you save at least part of the data.
3) If you boot to DOS, you need to run win.com, which is in the c:\windows directory. But I don't know if winME will load up this way.
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Thanks for the help. I managed to get the connector loose.
If you mean fdisk with the basic tools, I'm going to use that [img]smile.gif[/img] I hear the only real catch of fdisk was the formatting but in everything I read so far on it, it was really clear. I read more bad things about partition magic and the way it works.
The win.com command works but it showed me why I want to try linux. Windows seems to forget to install a lot of stuff, ranging from boot disk files (luckily I still had one), to files that are needed to install drivers to files needed to run win.com. So I got a blue screen of death cause of a missing file. (Maybe I should do a restore of ms regclean, I don't think it would delete windows reg keys but still)
Now I only have to find a shop that sells 10 or 20 GB hard disks to install linux on. Thought a bit about fdisk and I think I don't want to format for at least a month.