Recent content by jward52

Time out means, according to my interpretation, that it no longer works. For sure, RC1 has bugs, but it was surprising that the OS started up when I was late choosing "Earlier version of Windows" from the boot manager screen. If I have time later tonight, I'll start it and see if there's any...

I thought RC1 was supposed to have timed itself out by now, that is, quit functioning. I have it on a dual-boot with XP Home. Vista is still functioning when I checked yesterday. No drivers for the SoundMax on-board audio and my Visioneer 8920 USB scanner made Vista a little-used curiosity...

data recovery firms might be able to help?

I think I'll wait for SP1, which Rob says is coming in July. We'll see if MS gets it out on time. That's about the time RC1 will time out, right? Or is it June-something? My techie friend says never get a new Microsoft OS in its first year. He might be right about this one. Remember 95a...

Thanks for the post, Rob! Valuable insight, indeed. I have always been an MS Windows user and my current profession is based on the knowledge gained from years of studying MS & PCs and the schooling, a.k.a. A+ certification. The problem is, I've been reading so many negatives about Vista that...

Please name the improvements! And what about the DRM scheme disabling drives/peripherals/etc. that don't conform to the MS version of content protection? I use XP most of the time, choosing "Earlier version of Windows" at boot up. Another negative is that RC1's MediaPlayer10 will not allow...

I meant "why buy Vista," obviously. Niether response mentions the DRM issue I'm hearing so much bad news about...

No, I'm not rushing to the store to buy Vista because I'm not impressed with RC1 for these reasons: 1. The SoundMax digital (onboard) audio on my Dell Dimension 4600 will not work in Vista, even with an XP driver. 2. The Adaptec ATA133 IDE Controller card works fine in XP but not in RC1...

First, please don't refer to hard drive space and memory as the same thing. They are different components in the PC. 3.3gb is hard to believe. Software like that just doesn't occupy that much space on a hard drive in a normal installation. You can find all kinds of help here and...

3.3gb of memory? You must mean hard drive space? Even that's a stretch. I recommend you get help, someone who knows how to edit the registry properly. The references to WnDVD can be removed from the registry and its files deleted from the program files folder in Windows. Get some help with...

I missed a reply from SanDisk - had to check their ebox system. Kinda goofy. Anyway, they said to reformat the thing by the normal method in windows. I shoulda known it'd be that easy, but was worried that would mess with the player's OS. I tried UnChk from Eric Phelps, but it couldn't find...

The only thing I care about here is getting rid of the chk files so I can make sure there's nothing else wrong with the player. I have a 9x lab rat/tester machine, but doubt if that will access the player without installing stuff like usb dos drivers, etc. It's worth a try. I'll repost later...

linney, thanks for the tips on the software - I'll likely have to use one of those since Sandisk apparently doesn't intend to help. The mp3 files are no big deal and can be replaced easily, but the issue is removing the .chk files. They cannot not be renamed or accessed by normal methods, for...

The dos command I used, the only one I know of so far that works to see the 102 files on the drive is... C:\del K:\found.000\*.chk - then comes the incorrect parameter note for each file it lists. Can't cd to the drive. Weird. Norton wipe info shows 2 files, one of them with a .lib extension...

The problem is the files won't show up in Explorer. Only with the cmd line did I find 102 .chk files, apparently created when something chewed up the file system. Also, I cannot cd to the drive...had to do the del command from the C: prompt to find out what was on the drive, which is K:. It...