I installed Ubuntu 5.10 again on my good old laptop, but I made a booboo. I told it to overwrite the MBR. It overwrote the Windows 2000 MBR. I used my Windows 98 boot disk to fdisk /mbr. Destroyed the partition table. I tried booting with W2K boot disk, but it could never read the 2nd disk for some reason. I used Partition Magic 8.0 Boot Disks to recreate the partition in hopes of repairing the table. Still broken. Worse still, the Windows 98 boot disk doesn't recognize my 2nd partition, a FAT32 with a Norton Ghost image on it of the C: drive.
Didn't sleep well last night. Today, I downloaded a boot disk that used FreeDOS. It could read the (broken?) partition table and loaded my D: partition with the Ghost image!
Friday, April 14, 2006
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Palm V Battery Replaced
Replaced the battery on my Palm V PDA finally. I had the new battery for almost a year. I thought it was going to be harder to open the Palm, but it wasn't a big deal. I just put a blow dryer to the sides for about 2 minutes to melt the glue with the Palm V face down and then pried open the back with a blade, starting from a corner. I only needed to remove the back panel. (There's a middle and front piece as well.)
To put it back together, I heated it up again with the blow dryer and pressed the panels together. Remember to use gloves because it's hot.
To put it back together, I heated it up again with the blow dryer and pressed the panels together. Remember to use gloves because it's hot.
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