Re: Frog mailing list discussion

[Andrew Wilson]

2009/1/8 Carl D. Sorensen <address@hidden>

On 1/7/09 5:39 PM, "Andrew Wilson" <address@hidden> wrote:

> This was a complete disaster for me.  I quickly realised that it was
> a dual boot when what I was looking for was a virtual machine.
>
> I uninstalled it.  It trashed my machine.  I have now reinstalled
> windows four times trying to resurrect , user accounts, etc.
> I have now abandoned hope of fixing it.  Hopefully my backups
> are reasonably current.
>
> Use with extreme caution.
>
> Not a happy bunny.
>

Ouch!

Did you finish the installation before you uninstalled it?

 

Yes.  I rebooted the machine as saw that it had added

an option to boot Ubuntu.  that's when I realised that it

had made the machine dual boot.

> How is your machine trashed?  It won't boot, the hard drive isn't 
> recognizable, or what?

It looks like it trashed the MBR, the machine couldn't

find an OS to boot.  No problem I thought, I'll just

replace the MBR and it'll all work.  Couldn't figure out

how to do that using the recovery console.  My DOS fu

obviously isn't up to it.  So I tried to repair the installation

instead. It asked me for the admin password.  I don't

like passwords this machine sits in my room, it's

secure, it doesn't need a password. This means I

probably gave it a password and then changed my

mind. Anyway, I have no idea what password I gave

it when I installed it about a year and a half ago.

I ended up Reinstalling onto the same disc.

If I wasn't trying to get it back the way it was I'd

probably have a few less installs.  I have a

working computer, I'm just going to have to

resurrect the user data from somewhere else.

> I'm sorry to hear about your problem

No worries, stuff happens.

andrew