Recent content by Airdawg10

Hehe, sounds like that was a fun process... That was my 'last resort' option, but I figured there had to be an easier way... and there was! I seem to have figured out my own problem here. Addonics makes a DOS based USB driver for their CD drives and I used it. It recognized my CD drive, even...

I just had an idea... My laptop is set up to be able to boot from a PCMCIA device... if I went and got a PCMCIA card equipped with USB ports and plugged my USB CD rom into that PCMCIA card, do you think it would recognize the CD rom and boot from it?

I loaded the Win98SE disk that I got on my laptop, but it can only detect IDE (internal) CD drives, no USB drivers aparently. Any other suggestions?

The laptop BIOS does not support booting directly from USB, but I'll look into your other suggestion and get back to you...

I have a Toshiba laptop with a newly formatted HDD. The internal CD player broke some time back, and I found it cheaper to buy an external CD player so I did. Now, I'm left with the dilema of having no way of getting to the XP PRO setup disk, minus one that I know of. I made the 6 boot setup...

Well, after reinstalling XP from the new SP2 CD I created, all seems to have returned to normal. I'm not taking any chance though, I'm gonna send all my files across the network and do a thourough check of my system. Where can I get a scandisk program? When I do window's scandisk, it reboots...

That thread takes a lot of the guesswork out of slipstreaming.. thanks! I'll continue on my quest to make a SP2 XP CD and I'll let you know how it goes after that...

oh, and btw, when I try puting in the CD while Windows is running, and click install xp (which is the other way of doing it on that link you gave me), it says I can't install an older version of xp in place of the one i've got...

I also did that (tried to boot from CD and repair it) however, I was using the ISO that was on this computer when I bought it and after loading the CD and checking my disk, the CD halts and says it needs file "SP1.cab". I can only assume that means Service Pack 1. I never tried to slipstream...

Wrote that doc up and ran it. They all "succeeded", rebooted. Nothing is changed, as far as I can tell. No copy/paste, no click/drag, no taskbar...

Thanks for the response. I've done all that you suggested before and didn't help. In safe mode, I run into the same problems (no click and drag, no taskbar, etc) and when I run system restore, even in safemode, i get this message: "System Restore is not able to protect your computer. Please...

There's much background to this, but I'll spare you unless it deems relevent... Basically, my laptop went haywire this afternoon when I tried to reinstall drivers for my wireless card. As of now, I have no taskbar (it is completely gone), most of the windows features (search, F1 help, User...

Did you try the drivers for Home anyway? They might work even though he said they wouldn't...

I have two computers up and running on my home network both running XP Pro. I have remote desktop set up and it works great. Here's what I want to see happen. I have a third computer ready to go, with no HD. Is there a way to set up my three computers so one of them acts as a server and the...