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    CMOS battery died; now even BootMagic not helping!

    edfair, wolluf, Yes, it is set to AUTO. This is what it was set to when the 6GB original drive was in the machine. After I copied the Win98 system to C on an 80GB drive, I don't recall changing that. I wonder if changing this to LARGE or CHS would help (or spray the drive with messy bits...
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    CMOS battery died, BootMagic rescue floppy not helping!

    stduc, Thanks, that's what I had thought, too. I had copied settings and restored them as written on my filecabineted notes. Only, I had originally recorded them before replacing the 6GB drive with an 80GB drive, and wonder if the new drive had taken a different meaning from "AUTO" (i.e. Large...
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    OK,"desktop" forum, but touchpad bug after XP install

    Hi, I upgraded my Compaq Presario laptop by installing a retail Windows XP Home on a clean, new drive. Now the touchpad is so sensitive and loopy that the cursor will suddenly jump to random row/column (mouse cursor? or even offscreen) in a document when I'm typing even if I don't seem to touch...
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    CMOS battery died; now even BootMagic not helping!

    edfair, Thanks, I'll look into that. But I have my reservations ... I forgot to mention that the boot error message I was getting was "sector not found" or something like that. That is, there appears to be a missing drive sector, maybe the boot sector? Might the BIOS, after the new battery was...
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    CMOS battery died; now even BootMagic not helping!

    Hi, I have a triple-boot system which used to run Win98, WinXP, and Linux. BootMagic was on FAT32 C along with Win98. Linux boot partition above that and hidden NTFS C above that. Data D and Linux root above those. Once upon a time, I booted into BootMagic and selected an OS. If I went to 98...
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    CMOS battery died, BootMagic rescue floppy not helping!

    Hi, I have a triple-boot system which used to run Win98, WinXP, and Linux. BootMagic was on FAT32 C along with Win98. Linux boot partition above that and hidden NTFS C above that. Data D and Linux root above those. Once upon a time, I booted into BootMagic and selected an OS. If I went to...
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    grammar checker help

    grammarian, "NLP" does not mean what you guessed. It simply means "Natural Language Processing." "Natural Language" simply means a human language, like English or Latin, as opposed to 'artificial' languages, such as the language of nested parentheses ( () ( () ) ) or the language of...
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    How to run a batch file on XP Pro?

    Hi, I tried to install multiple security patches by creating a batch file per the KB articles I have read and re-read, and my batch file looks exactly like the examples. But when I open a command window and navigate to the folder containing my 'Update.bat' file, and then type "Update," I get a...
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    Installing Recovery Console on SP2 machine?

    bcastner, Man, you are fast today! You been eating a new brand of vitamins or something? --torandson
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    Installing Recovery Console on SP2 machine?

    ... and that linked article (900871) also describes how I can put SP2 files in an Installation folder without re-installing SP2? (Since I already have installed SP2.) I don't want to seem obtuse, but Method 3 seems awfully complex and risky for someone with SP2 already installed. I want to...
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    Installing Recovery Console on SP2 machine?

    bcastner, So, you're saying that Method 1 won't work with a slipstreamed SP2 CD that I could make from my SP1 CD and the SP2 executable? --torandson
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    Taskbar suddenly flips up vertical along the left edge???

    bcastner, Thanks! --torandson
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    Installing Recovery Console on SP2 machine?

    bcastner, Umm, thanks but could you make this a little more explicit for me? I already have everything installed. SP2, security patches, applications. I don't want to have to re-install everything again. (In other words, aside from any other possible uses, the slipstreamed CD will only be...
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    Taskbar suddenly flips up vertical along the left edge???

    Hi, Several times I have experienced this frustrating behavior: The Start button and taskbar suddenly are vertically aligned along the left edge of the destop. I can drag it out wide or push it this way and that but it stubbornly refuses to go back to lying horizontally at the bottom of the...
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    Installing Recovery Console on SP2 machine?

    Hi, This question is for bcastner or any knowledgeable MVP of similar expertise: Do I correctly understand (thread779-1013670) that after I have installed XP Pro SP1 and then have installed SP2 and then have installed critical and important updates, Office 2003, apps, etc. that I can afterward...
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