There would be no problem Pete with installing XP directly to your SATA drive and using the ntloader as your bootmanager, as per your first post....
Handy to know about a freeware partition recovery tool Christer. When I get some time I’ll give it a go. Thanks for the info.
You could probably use the Windows dual boot method by adding a line for 2K to the boot.ini file in XP. The XP hard drive would have to be the...
Personally I’d be inclined to agree that it’s just their stock response to avoid responsibility for the problem and to charge you for the work, as...
Are you saying Bob that you get this message at bootup once Windows has loaded? Do you see the desktop just before the message appears? Then once...
There’s some good advice from Jim in his posts that is certainly worth trying. Any download manager would do. Personally I must have tried a dozen...
As Pete says there are problems with your idea, especially if you use the MS way of setting up a dual boot. For one thing 98 will not run from a...
There’s a couple of possible fixes for your error in this forum thread. http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10063 Can you...
I used to have a similar problem but it was not just with .exe files but with any download that took over a certain time to complete. What was...
Yes, that’s the one you want. Either the DOS floppy or CD versions. Not advisable to run the Windows version on the drive you want to check. You...
What the error message is telling you is that the hard drive has a problem and could be on its way out – imminently! So the first thing to do is...
The point of round cables is to allow better airflow through the case. So it could be possible that slightly better airflow could help heat...
If you just want an image as a backup for restoring to the same computer, then you don’t need to use sysprep. That’s for deploying images to other...
I always have my machines set with the hard drives as masters on each IDE channel and the CD and Zip drives as slaves. Everything’s been stable...
Thanks guys for pointing me to the pwrtwks download. I’ve been looking for something like this for years to make it easier to add sites to the...
If you think you may be able to boot from a CD with the drive connected, then the UltimatebootCD comes with the Samsung disk diagnostic utilities...
As Mattman said be very careful with WD hard drive tools. The last thing you want is a DDO on your system and it could be installed without...
Only thoughts are that either the first hard disk – disk 0 – is not the first boot device in the bios, or when you copied the hard drive you did...
No, all my tests were done without rebooting between deleting the partitions and creating the new one and installing. During these test I was just...
That one is several times out of my price range so I’ve never tried it. However I would suspect it should do the job. Good luck.
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