freeze on rebootForum: Other Help Topics Topic: freeze on reboot started by: uzi Posted by uzi on Feb. 25 2005,22:12
like the title says:everytime i use the backup tool, it freezes when i try to reboot. it just says "preparing to reboot" and pops the cd out, but after that, usually it says "press enter to continue", but that never comes up and i have to do a hard shut down. now the next time i boot it up, after i try restoring by using "dsl restore=hda1" it doesn't restore anything. all my saved stuff is lost. now some key notes which may help figure out why this is happening: - i'm running an ntfs hdd (i think) edit: Feb. 25th '05 17:33 - happens on backup or restore - when i did backup and restored after, it didn't remember anything (styles, files created, etc), but it did happen to remember when i went to backup/restore.exe that i typed "hda1" in the text field last time =\ edit: Feb. 26th '05 1:29 - when i use the shutdown cmd it shows "press enter to continue", but remains frozen. - i tried backing up to a floppy, but that didn't work either. - when the backup app froze a couple of times, i gave up and went to shutdown and it said that floppy is not a valid medium/destination or w/e. but i'm not sure why - i had it mounted and thats how i normally use the floppy as well. - (i'll get back to you on the rest when i think up of it) Posted by green on Feb. 25 2005,23:13
did you read the info about saving stuff or backup/restore in the window that pops up when you boot into DSL?have you created a partition for use with backup/restore? it won't work if all you have NTFS. we need more info, and you need to read some more info. Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 25 2005,23:23
It is not allowed to save files to an NTFS partition from DSL.Choose a DOS or FAT32 partition to save your backup/restore file. For example, most floppy disks and USB flash drives are formatted with DOS (FAT) partitions. Posted by uzi on Feb. 27 2005,18:38
i tried with a floppy and it seems to backup fine, but again, when i reset - just hangs =\
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