Recent content by lucien14

Hi folks its me again. modem was working fine-installed a new hard drive. Loaded XP home. It recognised my external modem Supra Max 56K 2920- but it will not accept the driver to run it. It says that XP can't accept this driver. ive been through device manage, tried uninstall and reinstall-...

Hi Guys, Thanks to Martin (paparazi) and linney. Well I have done what you said to do. My Hard drive was a Maxtor-so I promptly went to the website and located the correct HD utility disc and did a low level format that took about 3 hours(Why does this get rid of all the germs I thought it just...

Thanks linney- I tried to reload through recovery console and it worked this time(wasn't quick format) and for a while it looked like it was going to work. Then I booted up again and straight away it detected a missing kernal and dll file and now it s locked up again and says it can't load...

From Lucien14 Thanks for the help guys. The truth is I don't know the manufacturer's name as a friend built the computer for me and so assembled all ther bits. The drive was created when i upgraded from Win 8 to XP home by using partition magic. I'm quite willing to do a complete reformat as I...

Hi its me again. i still can't get into Xp home to fix crash problem. I've tried recovery console with Xp boot up disk-chkdsk said some irrecoverable errors. I did what linney suggested(see Xp crash 04/24/03) nothing seemed to work So i tried to reload Xp home again-said it would reformat. Half...

Hi I'm in real trouble please help me. I booted up my Xp home edition 2 days a go and chdisk told me i had unreadable/corrupted files. Chdisk eventually repaired system but then when i rebooted next day it was all corrupted again. and now i can't even get into Xp to sort problem out. i fear...