"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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In message , HB writes:

"Java Jive" wrote in message
I suppose I should've asked HB also to try typing:
lilo --helpEnter

In Linux I see nowhere to type anything. Linux can only run with the DVD
in
the drive. When I removed the DVD, no more Linux. what does this tell
us?

There _is_ somewhere to type things - you just have to bring it up. It's
like the Command Prompt in Windows - not obvious from the desktop. (I
think it's called "terminal" in Linux.) One of the Linux guys who knows
fatdog will have to tell you how to bring it up.

All I know so far is Fatdog will run in RAM from the DVD. It doesn't install
on the HD. I have no idea where to find a command prompt or what it's called
in Linux. Or a "run" window. I know zero about the system.

Once we are at that prompt, we should be able to type things which might
tell us if the hard drive appears to be there (i. e. are its electronics
saying "I'm a hard drive"), and then whether we can actually access it,
and then whether we can fix the corrupted files/partitions/whatever, *if*
that's all that's wrong with it.

All through Linux? I would have to know the commands to type in if I can
find anything like a command prompt.

.. But all these are things a
Linux person would have to tell you; that's why, if _I_ am going to help
you, it'd have to be by accessing the drive down a USB cable from a
(working) Windows computer.
went and hanged himself (Matthew 27:5). Go, and do thou likewise (Luke
10:37)."

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