Because you have tried different keyboards and connections and it is freezing at different points in the install, I’d be more inclined to think it...
Well glad you got there but it was a bit protracted and a risky thing to do if you didn’t have a backup of the data on those partitions.
I do it by just minimizing an IE Window and leaving it on the taskbar. One click and it’s instantly back full screen and ready to use. With one IE...
Sparrow’s idea is worth a shot if you turn off the computer at the first reboot during the Windows install and at that point move the hard drive...
Didn’t the Original XP cd install environment not suffer from the 137gig limitation? It may be Paul that simply fixing the problem in your...
With the drive hooked up to a PC I would resize the current XP partition to leave free space for a new partition to install Windows to. Then copy...
In what way can’t you access it? It does not show in My Computer, or it is there but you can’t open it, or you can open it but it’s empty, or...
I've never tried any of them. http://alievrenkut.sitemynet.com/cdreader/id1.htm http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html...
You can add your own floppy apps to the UltimateBootCD
Early Compaqs were strange beasts that had the bios setup utility actually on the hard drive. I’m not sure about the Presario but a quick look on...
I was impressed with Reatogo when I first tried it but I haven’t used it much. The version I have now is several months old so thought I’d...
What kind of disk do you want? Is it just something that will let you carry out repairs or transfer files etc, or one that can restore an entire...
Oh I get it, a Windows BSOD will by default look for a pagefile on the same partition as the OS to dump the memory to. I didn’t know that but I...
Are you saying that you made the hard drive with the second installed XP the boot hard drive? You moved it to the master position and made the...
You have a lot of mounted partitions Pete. I only have the booted OS and usually only two or three data partitions that show and have drive...
The fixboot command or indeed any other recovery console command will not do anything useful it this case. Your easiest solution would be to do a...
Once you understand how the ntloader works it helps greatly in organising and maintaining a simple dual/multiboot set up. However the ntloader has...
I wonder if it has been dealt with in Vista. Perhaps you will be able to tell us soon. I’d be curious to know but I would not want or need more...
At what point in the boot process? Are you nearly getting to the desktop/login before it appears? XP does not try to mount the pagefile until this...
If you are just dragging visible files then yes you can miss hidden files. Use Ctrl+A to highlight everything in a folder or window, then any...
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