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Good morning all. Problem resolved, I'm happy to say. It was in fact linked to the boot sequence in the BIOS. For this particular model it is necessary to activate either the "Removable drive" (FDD) or "CD-ROM" entries in the boot list before setting their rank in the boot sequence...

Hi bcastner, Thanks for the link. I'll keep it in mind if my other plan doesn't work. It's good to know that sort of stuff anyway. ---------------------------------- kowderoi

Hi cyberspace, If you have administrator rights on your pc, you can do it manually. I've done this at home, works perfectly. At work I'm on a network and don't have the access necessary. Privacy is a right! Too bad that has to be a political statement in some developed countries. Anyway, I...

Hi stduc, Thanks for your input. That of course is a valid point, one which I did think of. As the FDD and CD/DVD drive are interchangeable, the BIOS offers a slightly different configuration. From memory, it's (order irrelevant): - HDD - Removeable drive - CD-rom - ISA (numbers and letter...

Hello all, Slight problem installing Windows XP on a laptop (IBM X30 ultraportable with docking station). I've got a blank hard drive split into two 20 Gb partitions. The floppy drive and cd/dvd drive are INTERCHANGEABLE, so it's one or the other plugged into the docking station. This seems to...

Hello all, I'm back and have successfully cloned my IDE system disk to a SATA disk, no trouble at all. My advice to anyone attempting this is: - install the SATA drive first and make sure Windows can work with it properly; - if using Norton Ghost 2003, only use the "boot from floppy" method...

Thanks for the advice. @linney, I'd seen the cruftbox blog thanks to google. Pretty funny (and good) advice about the floppy. The others were informative too. @Jump1ng, thanks for the idea about Ghost 2003 - exactly what I'm using. It does offer the option of loading SCSI and USB drivers, so...

Hello, I would like to clone my system disk from an ATA drive to a SATA on. I'm running WindowsXPproSP2. I only have IDE drives hooked up at the moment. I've learned enough here and there to understand that I will need SATA drivers for Windows to recognise my new drive. I'm quite familiar with...

Hello all, I've installed and reinstalled a number of OS on different machines, but I'm having trouble with XP (SP2 slipstreamed). I've already installed it (from the same CD) on the computer in question, but I've swapped hard disks and want to do a fresh install on the new one. I...

Just for information: The solution to our problems seems to have been linked to the fact that Acrobat was sending off its documents to the printer in "pure" post script form - the option "Disable Post Script Passthrough" in the printer properties, post script tab, was...

The problem: PDFs made using Acrobat 5.0 won't print on Lexmark Optra T612 (non-post-script, if I'm not mistaken) - it just humms, whirrs and goes silent while displaying a smug little "Ready" message. A pop-up from our messenger service then confirms that the document has printed. We...

Hello everybody, I've found many threads discussing dual-boot systems, but none actually explaining the basics of the actual installation process. I'm running windows 2000 (on my C:\) and would like to install windows 98se - in order to recuperate some old backups made with the 98 backup...