Recent content by Jekteir

Hey guys, sorry about my silence for a day or two. I have moved back into my university building, and the internet isn't currently available there. This means I also no longer have a floppy drive! Before I left, however, I tried booting from a disgo USB memory key. The objective was actually...

I wouldn't say "fun" exactly :) I'm moving to a different building tomorrow, and my floppy drive has to stay here ;P Are you saying, use my win 95 bootdisk as usual to get to C:, but have the line: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS in the config.sys on the floppy? Delete the file from where? When...

Just ran a reinstall. Still did fine, got to the restart bit, restarted and 'Operating system missing'. This time I made a windows 95 startup disk, but it does exactly the same as my other boot disk - loads to a dos prompt, and goes no further. 'Win' from 'Windows' still gives the HIMEM.SYS...

P.P.S. Just reloaded XP, reinstalled the boot-us loader on the MBR. After seeing the warnings on PartitionMagic about how 95 and 98 hate to see other partitions, I set it up to hide everything from 95, but let XP see all the partitions. Now I just need to figure out how to load 95 :) In the 95...

P.S. On the basis of some messageboards I saw, I just tried 'sys c:' from my win 95 boot floppy - it said 'system transferred' but on reboot it was the same deal. To clarify a bit, when I reboot with no floppies, it goes to 'Missing operating system' (I presume because the mbr now points to C...

Hi again guys. Thanks a lot, both of you, for your immense amount of help thus far. I have reached the next stage: namely, I managed to install 95 (took hiding everything except for the 95 partition, and setting that partition Active from the boot-disk version of PartitionMagic). It told me to...

To let you know, I have managed to 'merge' my F: drive out of the extended partition and into part of C: in one fell swoop. My new configuration so far: C: FAT32 10,997MB Active Primary (*) Extended 275,175MB None Primary G: NTFS 275,175MB None...

Hi again, Thanks for the advice. Although I'd moved my floppy drive onto this machine, I managed to burn the basic DOS stuff for PartitionMagic from the other machine onto a CD and load it on this one after booting to DOS. I got around the autochk error by: a): Load pqmagic.exe from the CD...

Hi again, I made my attempt and have caused a new problem... I got the XP 'boot floppy' working. Then I used PartitionMagic to hide my F and G partitions (it wouldn't let me hide the 'extended' partition as a whole) and booted to DOS. But my 98 CD gave me the same message as my 95 CD about not...

Hey again, PM had no trouble converting C: to FAT32 (it took about 5 seconds!), and XP booted smoothly after that - all well so far. It is Win 98 SE; I guess I will try installing that next. Thanks, Jek

Hey, thought I'd let you know I couldn't get my system to boot from a floppy with the ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini in it - this is before changing any partitions. Got some sort of "non-system disk" error. Anyway, I think I can save it with the XP disc if I have to, and I also have some old...

OK, thanks, guys. Lots of good ideas there. I think I might try that conversion and installing 95 on C:. Somehow it never even occurred to me to put it directly on C: in FAT32. I guess we'll know if it works or not soon enough. I'm going to plug in a floppy drive and test an "XP boot disk" from...

P.S. The helpfile "Microsoft Windows 95 Resource Kit" on my 95 CD says, "Windows 95 features a layered file system architecture that supports multiple file systems, including VFAT and CDFS." I gather VFAT = FAT32? Jek

Ed, thanks for the comments. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately in this case?) this isn't a "normal" install: although C: currently has about 5 gigs, the only things on it are: boot.ini, ntldr, autoexec.bat, config.sys, an empty "hplog.txt", io.sys, msdos.sys, ntdetect.com, "System Volume...

Thanks a lot for the suggestions - they have been very educational. I have been reading up more on partitions, and would like to run this plan by you: As I understand it, I can use PartitionMagic to convert from NTFS to FAT32 without loss of data. So, I could convert my C: partition [with the...