Recent content by gamelin56

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...