Are you loading the SATA drivers during the Windows setup when you are prompted to press F6?
Never actually tried installing Win9x on a SATA hard drive so not sure of the issues here, but I have had Win98 running fine from SATA drives, but...
It’s been a while since I trialed Runtime’s XML and I don’t remember the BartPE plugin being available then. Found it a competent program however...
Hi Silver, if you mean changing the boot order in the bios then yes your idea will work with the latest beta 2 of Vista. I tested doing just that...
Never wanted or tried the Recovery Media Builder so not sure exactly how it goes. It’s for making customised boot disks for one particular system,...
Don’t know the answer to that one Hawk – never tried it. I did trial Exact Image last year but never really saw the point of it when DriveBackup...
I’d say if you have some experience with partitions or want to learn, then stick with Drive Backup. Exact Image is similar to Acornis’s True Image...
In that case then yes Hawk I’m familiar with Drive Backup. Used it extensively for about 5 years now and swear by it. I’ve not needed all of its...
Not seen a Paragon Drive Image Hawk. Is it new or do you mean Drive Backup or True Image?
It would have to be a pretty old computer not to be able to boot from the CD. I’m assuming you do have a bios option to make the CD the first boot...
Are you seeing a message on screen "Press any key to boot from CD " and are you pressing a key in time before the bios moves on to the floppy?
There is no difference between IDE and SATA drives in the way they handle partitions. The internals of the drives are the same, only the method of...
Sorry Alboy, don’t know XP’s criteria for assigning drive letters to various USB devices, I just know it’s all stored in MountedDevices and things...
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices in the registry. If you are running XP and it is assigned as the C drive you can happily delete all...
On both my machines the second (and 3rd & 4th) hard drives stay powered down until they are actually used. Something in your XP must be wanting to...
Well, got the computer home and started by just looking at all the installed software to see if there was anything worthwhile. One of the first...
Thanks again guys…….Techs, yeah I used the Dell restore to get back to a working system after the failed attempt to uninstall AOL. It took the...
Thanks Arie, I’m pretty sure my OEM disk is not locked to the computer, however after reading about this SLP thing we might go with buying a CD...
Thanks guys, I have a XP Home OEM disk myself, so would it be legal enough to use that and her key? I actually use that version of XP myself so...
Hi Folks, I want to reinstall XP Home on a new computer with an XP disk from another computer and use the Product Key from the new machine. I’ve...
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