At work and as bored as hell

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:08 am

So what do all you guys do for a living then?

Level 10 User Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 614

Work is Crap. But I make drill bit's. So if any break while doing your Car don't blame Me. !!!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

can you get me bits cheap then Pierre?

Don't suppoose any of you are really sad and can tell me how to get Linux off a pc, I have a windows 98 boot disk and I can't get linux off to get the thing going. Yes this is a george arse up.

I should be fixing cars but thats effort.

I did however put a tent up in the bedroom today after I got bored with that pc. Aired it for a bit then hoovered the old grass out of it then packed it away properly, now I HAVE to go camping somewhere.

I am also bored, very bored and its raining outside.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Chris if you set the pc to boot from the floppy drive (in the BIOS), and have the boot disk in when you turn the pc on, it should use that to start up, regardless of whats on the hard disk.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

you'd think that Neal but sadly its not true, best I can do is get the floppy loaded then tell it to boot without cd back up then it just goes to A:\> so I changed it to C to try and format the thing using FDISK to partition it which I eventually managed but can't get it to format.

And no matter what I typoe when I just try to run the thing all I get is A:\> then type stuff its says abort/retry/fail? or invalid system command etc.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

cant you boot from the windows CD?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

now the monitor on the bloody thing isn't getting a signal.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

you see I don't have a windows cd, I have lost all of them, I believe they are in Georges flat which isn't ideal at all.

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:50 am

So who's the PC guru then?

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Evo is the PC bod around here, alas he's not on very often

Site Subscriber Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 2317

In FDISK did you delete the existing partition? Then restart and create a new one using FDISK? You need to do that, then you could be able to use the FORMAT C:\ command from the A:\ drive

Cheers

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

erm back on topic....im a design engineer (apparently) but it too is very boring as its quiet at the mo...only a small company, hence why i get on here so much during the days.

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:36 am

IT Service Management here blah blah blah and all that jazz. Went to college as a mechanic, left then got into computers. Sad life eh?

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

ive just finished my degree in aerospace engineering (should have done automotive really), and ill be the first the suggest that having a degree doesnt mean you know jack shit in real terms about the subject.

People I know have just got first class honours and for example dont know what a bearing is (i shit you not). Oh, the examples i could give...

But i digress.

Before i went to uni i was a machinist doing manual and CNC milling and turning.

During my course I have had a job in a cinema where i now work pretty much full time as shift manager/projectionist until i get a proper job.

Level 1 User Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 23

forklift driver/storeman
currently off with a bad back

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Accounts type person, see http://www.kellyscarcentre.com

By nite i run this place tho!