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  1. gamelin56

    Hi all - could use some help with r

    Tviman, If I remember correctly partition magic used to complain if you were loading emm386. It would run, but complain. Could be a similar problem. If this doesn't work, do you have access to ghost? Ghost the original disk to the second. Swap the drives. Boot from the new drive. Use disk mgr...
  2. gamelin56

    Install Win2K Pro on Laptop

    eforcedude, Well now what o/s came on the machine. Restore it. Presumably you can get the usb cd working w the original o/s. If it was me i'd create an install partition just for the cd files. Once the usb drive is working copy the files from the cd there. Nuke the original o/s. Boot with your...
  3. gamelin56

    W2K additional languages

    What language? Do you know what the subject line should look like? If you know what it should look like how about an example of the mangled version and the proper display. This may be a code page issue. Could depend on what fonts you have installed in office or which one you are using as default...
  4. gamelin56

    w2k "unattend.txt" (aka:"Answer File") OPTIONS LIST

    BloatMe, From the following page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/default.asp Online Books and References Windows 2000 Resource Kits </windows2000/techinfo/reskit/onlinebooks/redir-reskits.asp> The Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server Resource Kits deliver...
  5. gamelin56

    Do you like McAfee?

    Zelandakh, Been using an older version forever. v4.5.1 with the 4.1.60 scan engine. No probs. Technical support when needed (some years ago) was very slick. We always tend to be on older o/s's and platforms. Your mileage may very.
  6. gamelin56

    w2k &quot;unattend.txt&quot; (aka:&quot;Answer File&quot;) OPTIONS LIST

    Hello again BloatMe, Pardon if this is a little vague, the memory isn't what it used to be. It seems to me there is a way to create an answer file after the fact. You set up the machine, the way you want, and then you generate the answer file. It may be that its 3rd party software or freeware...
  7. gamelin56

    Hard drive Issue

    Radddog1645, Where are you trying to install the software. Choose custom install and specify where. Chkdisk, scandisk, defrag, virusscan. Look at the environment variables. Is temp pointing to somewhere that doesn't exist. Right click my computer, properties, advanced, environment variables...
  8. gamelin56

    Can't boot - File Winnt\System32\config\system corrupt

    Zaner71, It may be useful to find out exactly what that error message that you can't read says. Try hitting pause. I wonder if you may have some flaky bit of plug and play hardware which is not always being enumerated when you boot. Watch the screen and check to see if all your PCI and ISA...
  9. gamelin56

    Clean Install

    Hello BloatMe, Well first things first. Its not the First primary, its the only primary, everything else is logical, including the other drives. 2-3 mins. to restore it (C:) if it gets fried. Worst case scenario you can boot any of the o/s's which are not on C: from a floppy. I can boot to dos...
  10. gamelin56

    Clean Install

    Razorback, If your WIN2K CD is an oem version or a copy somebody burned for you it may very well not be bootable. At least we know you're not getting invalid system disc because there's a non-bootable floppy in the drive. Looks like you might be about to get a refresher on re-installing. Do...
  11. gamelin56

    Scrolling Toolbar

    What I think you want is a return to a more W2K type taskbar. Unlock the taskbar. Drag it bigger. Uncheck group similar. Autohide the task bar. Re lock the task bar. Apply
  12. gamelin56

    Can't boot after Ghost clone

    Did the multi boot ever work. If so these comments probably won't help. WIN98 needs an overlay to see a 120 GB drive. I think WINME does too. WINXP wants to get rid of the overlay. Either one or the other will work. Depending on how your partitions are laid out you may get them both working. If...
  13. gamelin56

    No XP CD

    What you would like to do is restore the machine using HP's utility, then burn an image of the factory setup with no changes whatsoever to CD. Check to make sure your image works. Do a restore. Once this is done you don't care if you lose the image on the hard drive. BTW the image is probably...
  14. gamelin56

    Cannot Delete ..\lastgood.tmp\ folders

    I'm with linney on this one. XP is protecting you from yourself. You're probably not set up to see everything. I take it that when you say booting from floppy or CD you mean to recovery console. Recovery console is limited to what you can do. This is an example of one of the reasons I like to...
  15. gamelin56

    XP installation from DOS mode

    tommya300, I suppose by this, you mean your post. And thus we arrive at the general recommendation: do a clean install. Your problem is probably related to the fact that WINXP wants to get rid of EZ-DRIVE. I'm supposing that the machine meets HCL (Hardware Compatability List) in other respects...
  16. gamelin56

    Urgent help neede

    Well I suppose you could call technical support. I've seen a lot of misery with older versions of Norton. Are all your drivers up to date? Do you have the latest service pack? Is the version of norton meant for NT? Was everything working before? Do you have an older version of the registry you...
  17. gamelin56

    Clean Install

    If you're going to multi boot different o/s's you start with the oldest first. But before that you have to decide how many partitions, and what they're going to be ie. FAT, FAT32, NTFS, etc. I like to be able to boot the hard drive to DOS, so any partitions you want it to see will have to be FAT...
  18. gamelin56

    Clean Install

    To Bloatme, I'll tell you how I've come to this recommendation. I've got WIN95 on C: , WINNNT on D: , WIN2K on E: , WINXP on F: , etc. I generally make images of each partition as soon as I've put a couple of hours into installing stuff, however I haven't made many changes to WIN95 for a long...
  19. gamelin56

    Merging Partitions

    Hayley, If you do end up using partition magic, you will want to defrag all partitions after, as it seems to fragment things pretty good. Smactek, I've never seen any performance hit moving the swap file, but then it is usually on another drive. Have you seen any benchmarks or articles on the...
  20. gamelin56

    Clean Install

    If I was setting up a machine from scratch, I would put no O/S on C: Each O/S gets its own partition. All that's on C: are the boot files. I use a separate partition for apps, and when installing, accept the default install path, only changing the drive letter. I've never had any trouble. If you...

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