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  1. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    Hey guys, sorry about my silence for a day or two. I have moved back into my university building, and the internet isn't currently available there. This means I also no longer have a floppy drive! Before I left, however, I tried booting from a disgo USB memory key. The objective was actually...
  2. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    I wouldn't say "fun" exactly :) I'm moving to a different building tomorrow, and my floppy drive has to stay here ;P Are you saying, use my win 95 bootdisk as usual to get to C:, but have the line: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS in the config.sys on the floppy? Delete the file from where? When...
  3. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    Just ran a reinstall. Still did fine, got to the restart bit, restarted and 'Operating system missing'. This time I made a windows 95 startup disk, but it does exactly the same as my other boot disk - loads to a dos prompt, and goes no further. 'Win' from 'Windows' still gives the HIMEM.SYS...
  4. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    P.P.S. Just reloaded XP, reinstalled the boot-us loader on the MBR. After seeing the warnings on PartitionMagic about how 95 and 98 hate to see other partitions, I set it up to hide everything from 95, but let XP see all the partitions. Now I just need to figure out how to load 95 :) In the 95...
  5. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    P.S. On the basis of some messageboards I saw, I just tried 'sys c:' from my win 95 boot floppy - it said 'system transferred' but on reboot it was the same deal. To clarify a bit, when I reboot with no floppies, it goes to 'Missing operating system' (I presume because the mbr now points to C...
  6. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    Hi again guys. Thanks a lot, both of you, for your immense amount of help thus far. I have reached the next stage: namely, I managed to install 95 (took hiding everything except for the 95 partition, and setting that partition Active from the boot-disk version of PartitionMagic). It told me to...
  7. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    ...of the extended partition and into part of C: in one fell swoop. My new configuration so far: C: FAT32 10,997MB Active Primary (*) Extended 275,175MB None Primary G: NTFS 275,175MB None Logical (*) Unalloc 7MB None Primary...
  8. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    Hi again, Thanks for the advice. Although I'd moved my floppy drive onto this machine, I managed to burn the basic DOS stuff for PartitionMagic from the other machine onto a CD and load it on this one after booting to DOS. I got around the autochk error by: a): Load pqmagic.exe from the CD...
  9. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    Hi again, I made my attempt and have caused a new problem... I got the XP 'boot floppy' working. Then I used PartitionMagic to hide my F and G partitions (it wouldn't let me hide the 'extended' partition as a whole) and booted to DOS. But my 98 CD gave me the same message as my 95 CD about not...
  10. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    Hey again, PM had no trouble converting C: to FAT32 (it took about 5 seconds!), and XP booted smoothly after that - all well so far. It is Win 98 SE; I guess I will try installing that next. Thanks, Jek
  11. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    Hey, thought I'd let you know I couldn't get my system to boot from a floppy with the ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini in it - this is before changing any partitions. Got some sort of "non-system disk" error. Anyway, I think I can save it with the XP disc if I have to, and I also have some old...
  12. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    OK, thanks, guys. Lots of good ideas there. I think I might try that conversion and installing 95 on C:. Somehow it never even occurred to me to put it directly on C: in FAT32. I guess we'll know if it works or not soon enough. I'm going to plug in a floppy drive and test an "XP boot disk" from...
  13. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    P.S. The helpfile "Microsoft Windows 95 Resource Kit" on my 95 CD says, "Windows 95 features a layered file system architecture that supports multiple file systems, including VFAT and CDFS." I gather VFAT = FAT32? Jek
  14. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    Ed, thanks for the comments. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately in this case?) this isn't a "normal" install: although C: currently has about 5 gigs, the only things on it are: boot.ini, ntldr, autoexec.bat, config.sys, an empty "hplog.txt", io.sys, msdos.sys, ntdetect.com, "System Volume...
  15. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    ...FAT32 10,896.8MB Active Primary XP (G:) NTFS 275,175.8MB None Logical (*) Unallocated 7.8MB None Primary Once I had done that, I could 'hide' the xp partition (I...
  16. Jekteir

    Win95 Install on Multi-Partitioned Drive Already Containing XP

    ...to Partition Magic): Partition: Type: Size: Status: Pri/Log: Local Disk (C:) NTFS 4,996.7MB Active Primary (*) Extended 281,176.7MB None Primary WIN95 (F:) FAT32 6,000.8MB None Logical XP (G:) NTFS...
  17. Jekteir

    How to Auto-Reboot after STOP Error?

    Hey, thanks for the response. I checked that and it was set correctly, but it hung about a month ago. I have checked the registry key and it is set like the menu option, so we'll see. I have also disabled the "administrative alert" feature since I have the messenger service disabled...
  18. Jekteir

    How to Auto-Reboot after STOP Error?

    As you probably figured out from the subject line, I'm getting a STOP error as a result of a faulty program (which I didn't design). Problem is, I still need to use the program, but it's running on my server. So, when it causes the STOP error I really need Windows to reboot instead of hanging...
  19. Jekteir

    MciSendString question

    Hi there, I've been coding an API-only media player for windows, using the mciSendString function. It's been going fine, but I can't figure out how to use the "setvideo" command to actually change the brightness. I've trawled through the MSDN docs online, and tried various methods...
  20. Jekteir

    Multiline Combobox

    You could always just run through the text using the "instr()" function checking where the next vbCRLF came. Every time you find one, reset the current "start position" to just after it, take that text (by using left() and right() with the position of the new vbCRLF and the...

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