Recent content by dermoyn

Thanks John. However, that didn't work for me. For some reason. Spent ages on it. Eventually, I found a thing on the Internet called Email Saver Xe. http://www.winguides.com/emailsaver/ Got a free 15 day trial and that did the business. Hope it won't rise up and bite me in 15 days time...

Hi I've been running Windows 98se. I've recently installed Win 2000 Pro on another Pc and wish to carry over all my Eudora 5.1 settings, messages, address book and filters. I've spent a lot of time getting things the way I want them but badly want to get away from Windows 98se. I've tried...

First of all the good news: the fact that it didn't crash when booting from a floppy is a good sign. You seem to be able to get to an E prompt but setup then crashes. Yes? Okay, let's take this step by step: Boot from floppy. At A: type the following, pressing enter after each line: E: DIR...

It's a little bit clearer though not much. Mind you it could be my glasses. I'll ask this again: Can you boot from a bootable floppy disk? Does it crash? Do you get an error message? What is it? At what stage does it crash? If you can't do this with one boot floppy could you have a go with...

Your msg is rather unclear - "It freezes up when I boot up my computer, or a couple of minutes after I boot it up." But further down you say you've "recently deleted...[your]whole hard drive". Can you boot with a boot floppy? Does it still freeze? "My CD-RW drive...

I take it you have partitioned and formatted the hard drive in advance? If yes, you could try copying over the CAB files onto your hard drive from the CD, remove the CD, run SETUP from the newly created directory and see what happens. This should rule out a couple of posibilities: iffy CD Rom...

A slight amendment to Stevends suggestion above: boot.ini will be on C: no matter where Win2k is installed. Assuming that is that you are just using NTLDR and not some other boot manager that hides partitions so OSes stand alone. Dermot

Thanks PCLine, Yes, I've considered that but I wanted to automate the whole thing. It would have been nice to have just turned around as I went and seen a host of open CD Rom drives with Windows on the screen and all I would have to do is collect the CD Roms. In my ideal, if a trifle fanciful...

Scenario: Teaching a class on PC Repair and Maintenance. The class previous to mine regularly messes up the systems (Operating System wise) and regularly leaves me with no working systems and consequently I have to get to the class very early to sort things out. Plan: Make ghost image of...

Don't be disappointed in Ghost; be disappointed in Symantec. Ghost is awesome. The only part of Ghost that you need is the executable: ghost.exe or, depending on your version: ghostpe.exe Make a Win9x boot disk (no need for PCDOS) and just copy over ghost.exe (or ghostpe.exe) onto it. Boot...

Have another look at Martin's suggestion. By the way, his comments that, among other things it might be the memory were (I assume) only to show that if there are only four things in there it has to be one of the four. He only includes the memory - even though if you tested it on another PC and...

Hey guys, Just looking for an easy life. First day here. Just in passing - do the stars mean nothing? People seem to be dishing them out for the most mundane stuff. "Helpful/expert" seems to be seen as covering a veritable multitude of sins. I conscientiously gave a couple to some...

Win2k is part way through its install and will continue each time you reboot until you get rid of it. Mind you, I think WINNT32 has to be run from the desktop. It sounds like you no longer have a desktop. Try substituting WINNT for WINNT32 and booting from a DOS floppy. Track down your CD and...

When performing an upgrade the Setup Wizard generates a compatibility report. Though this was not strictly an "upgrade" but a reinstall I have a feeling that it will have generated one. Try accessing: %systemroot%\winnt32.log If it's not there or reveals nothing or you can't access...

Hey, you want to believe so badly in AVG that you will persuade yourself that it wasn't a virus? I've no problem with that. Incidentally, your remarks negate intrepide's criticism of Norton AV in favour of AVG.