I can't say enough good things about FoxIt Reader It's much smaller and less invasive than Adobe Acrobat, and faster to boot. I dumped Acrobat...
Possibly a Registry key is corrupt. Click HERE and select RUN when asked. Allow the file to add the correct values to your Registry. Check for...
Check your data cables to ensure they are fully seated on all connectors. Overheating is not likely but check that the fans are all running....
Go ahead and install XP on the second drive or partition. The install process will detect the other install and modify the boot.ini file...
Hi knsusil and welcome! The way to do that is boot to XP and delete the Windows 98 system folder from the C: drive. Then edit the boot.ini...
Peter, If you have critical data on the drive, you should get a BartPE or Ubuntu boot CD to access the data and copy it to other media or network...
I burn an image to CD's on rare occasions.
I use Norton Ghost 12 to make automatic daily incremental images and send them to a second hard drive. It takes less than one minute at boot,...
I'd guess you have a bad hard drive. Run the manufacturers diagnostic or some other good one to confirm the diagnosis: HD Diagnostic tools
Check the size of your paging file and Temporary Internet Files setting. Set the paging file to the same size as your installed RAM and set the...
Another possibility that may help now and/or in the future.
Any cloning you do will make it necessary to rename the target drive to F: when booted (on the fly via mtd volumes) so that all shortcuts and...
You can use the CACLS command to allow individual users to access otherwise forbidden files and folders. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/162786...
Run a drive search for those files, fxsocm.inf and iis.inf and let's see if they actually exist in the C:\Windows\INF folder. You can also run...
If your comfortable looking in the Registry, take a look at this key:...
Good catch Zander! I think you have it nailed. Now if we could just figure out how things get that way... :D
I can't be sure which drive is being referred to by drive \\?\Volume{8aaca7a6-1ce1-11dc-b5dc-000cf194ac30}\ but if you continue to get that...
xmonday, I have seen it happen that the System Volume Information directory will get some data files trapped in it and register as being full...
I've gotta go with that method since it has never failed to work for me. It even works sometimes when I wish that it hadn't! :)
Look very closely when booting the XP install CD. It asks you to strike any key to boot from the CD. If you miss that opportunity, it will...
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