Recent content by btfsplk

I wouldn't have guessed that all I needed was SP3. Thanks!

Thanks, rclarke250. I haven't implemented this fix yet, as it calls for deleting the whole partition containing XP. Before I do that, I need to make sure W7 will be able to access the programs and files also located on that partition. I am confident it will work, though, and I appreciate your...

I have W7 and XP Pro running in a dual boot environment. I now want to remove XP, but I don't want to remove or reformat the partition containing XP. (It also contains lots of files and programs not duplicated in the W7 partition.) Is there a way to do that?

I recently re-installed XP Pro SP2 after reformatting the disk on an old Dell desktop. Expecting to spend several hours downloading updates, I initiated windows update. It scans for updates OK, but won't open the next window. I get the error message 0x80190194. I did an error code lookup...

Thanks, Glenn9999. I'll give it a try.

For some reason, my security update software doesn't always recognize that a .NET Framework update has already been installed. This results in constant notifications that "an update is ready to install". The only way I can get it to stop is to turn off the automatic update feature. How can I...

P.S. to linney. I would settle for ASR, but I don't have a floppy drive for the recovery disk. Also, one of the machines runs XP Home, which doesn't have the ASR utility. Acronis is sometimes aggravating, but it is nice to be able to do incremental backups.

Thanks, linney. I don't know that I am running any disk monitoring software that would tie up the external drive, which is only used for storage. For the active drives on both machines, I run AVG antivirus, Regcure, Spybot Search and Destroy, Adaware, and Defender. All of these were used...

Thanks for the quick response. Western Digital provides a diagnostic which I downloaded and ran. It says the external drive is working fine. I can also use the XP Backup utility to back up to the drive without problems. I haven't tried reloading the usb drivers, but I have tried plugging the...

I have two computers running XP on a home network. For a couple of years, I've used Acronis 10 on each machine to backup their disks to an external drive. No problems until a couple of months ago. Then, Acronis on one machine started hanging up after selecting the drive to be copied, when...

Thanks, edfair. In going through your suggestions, I found the problem in Network Magic, my network controller. There was a file that had to be converted. Now everything is OK. Your input was big help!

I have a wired LAN with two computers and a router. I've been sharing two printers, an internet connection and an external USB hard drive. For months, everything worked fine. Suddenly, I can't get access to the hard drive except by the computer it is connected to. Moving the drive physically...

Thanks tlcscousin. The last time I tried EasyBCD, it corrupted XP without fixing Vista. I hope I can get up the nerve to try it again. I read the documentation, and it sounds promising.

Thanks, Linney and Firewolfrl. On Linney's suggestion, I went to the VistaBootPro to see if others had had a similar experience. What I found was a series of nightmares that were never fully resolved. It seems that even the VistaBootPro folks don't have a predictable and bulletproof way to get...

Thanks, Firewolfrl. I hadn't thought of that. I do have a second hard drive, which I only use for backups. If I can't solve the problem any other way, I suppose I could move XP to the second drive. Sounds like a big deal, though.