Huh? What's this about partition magic? Sheesh. :rolleyes: Put the drive in as secondary master, or slave. Boot the computer. Open Admin...
I've used it, and also removed it from more systems than I care to count. BB may be partially right, that running it without knowing what you're...
Ah, the joys of installing things with non-standard peripherals. ;) I ALWAYS carry a spare HD, video card, PS2 keyboard and mouse around....
Take everything out of the machine, except video and floppy, disable onboard LAN, sound, USB, NIC, modem IRQ, whatever, and see if you can get a...
Even if it locks up in regscrub, you can run it through the windows gui and still clean up a ton of stuff. It still doesn't mean a totally...
You're right about the space ;) He asked about "fdisk & format several hard drives "...so...
No, it's not a corrupt registry, or the system would display different symptoms. It's a corrupt piece of software (Nortons) that's doing you in....
As long as ACIP is enabled in BIOS, and it's an ACPI compliant motherboard, XP will add virtual IRQ's as needed for devices.
Huh? :rolleyes: Don't you mean: A:\ fdisk Select Large disk support. Option 3, remove partitions Option 3, then 3 and 2, then 3 and 1, then...
S95=1 or S95=0 usually fixes it. ;) Steve, if you put "AT" in any advanced string (extra settings box) it's redundant, because you already...
Follow all the steps given by mflynn, it's sound advice. Then uninstall Norton System Crasher, and repeat ALL the steps above. If you rely on...
Com ports are NOT USB ports. Enter the system BIOS, and disable both com ports, you're not using them anyhow. USB ports will be in device...
Bah... Open Explorer, find a file that ends in .pdf Hold down the SHIFT key, and RIGHT click. Select Open With, and use Adobe Acrobat. Put a...
I use Ghost, both for making an image then burning to CDR, and cloning a drive. I don't think it does selective files/folders though. Drive...
Hard to keep things in line with duplicate posts...anyhow...Abraxas has it nailed. You should be prompted to repair an installation, and it will...
Do the repair, you won't lose anything.
brew01. You said that you still had your old XP install on the D drive. What I proposed was to change that drive to C, and make it bootable. You...
Try safe mode, then end task on everything that even remotely might have something to do with it, THEN it should go...
Fixboot and FixMBR may not write the correct NTLDR and NTdetect.com to the HD... In my experience, it's easier to run a repair. Just MHO.
You can still dualboot if you choose, or you can simply format your D drive now that you have a full working XP on C. Too bad you didn't post a...
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