On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:40:26PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> > i recently had to wipe linux from my pc but forgot to restore the original
> > MBR (NT). Anyone know how i can do this? linux is entirely gone and no boot
> > floppy. formatting the entire disk doesn't do it either.
> boot from an NT CD, choose repair, and make it check the mbr
Nice how NT "repair"s a hard disk by removing other OSs.  Could we call it
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Re: [ILUG] Re: C++ and C Mailing Lists for Beginners and Advanced

> > Try the following newsgroups - Beginners: news:comp.lang.learn.c-c++
> I tried news:comp.lang.learn.c-c++ and it wouldn't work.  Is there a
Yup. It's alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ Sorry about that.
I've never used the group, so I can't vouch for it's usefulness.
But a few people I respect a lot direct people there for beginner