Re: Spammed By Mom

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: http://www.juno.com/~w1few
 > Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:15:38 GMT
 >
 > Did you send a copy to mom?  Just kidding.
 > Well our computer has gone downhill since I talked to Linksys.  The WMP11 
 > driver on their WEB was older than the CD with the card and after I tried 
 > loasding it, I can't uninstall the driver software and the computer doesn't 
 > get past the logo.  Looks like reloading ME is a reality.  DO you happen to 
 > know what files are necessary to delete in the WIndows and System directories 
 > to reload Windows?  If not I'll delete all the Windows files and reload.

No, I don't.  The only time I've ever had to do something like that was
when I installed Linux instead :-).

 > Very 
 > annoying.

If you haven't done any recent back-ups, you might look at

http://www.toms.net/rb/

It's a single floppy version of Linux that lets you poke around.  You
might be able to mount your Windows partition by doing "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt"
and then copy stuff off.  (It might have "mdir" and "mcopy", equivalents
to DIR and COPY in DOS; if not, you might be able to mount a formatted
floppy (probably "mount /dev/floppy /floppy" or something) and use "cp" to
copy the files).)  There are also single CD versions of Linux (I think I
have one called BBC Linux; remind me to bring it up next time I see you so
you can copy it).

 > Take care.
 > ME