Yep, it's indelibly written on my peanut brain: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\etc\HOSTS It has no extension by nature. BTW, On my system,...
Update, Disregard my previous re: KB887797 since it wasn't the problem. I found the real culprit. It was Spybot Search and Destroy. I installed...
Amen jheibeck, I'm in the process of testing Standby after years of ignoring it. It works flawlessly on this 2 year old HP 540n whereas it causes...
What kind of imaging software are you running? Really all you have to do, providing you have the external drive installed and recognized, is...
I agree with Pete. Normally a Burner likes to be a Master. With that it's not usually possible to make the cabling work easily for the second...
You could work around that by using a boot diskette, assuming you have a floppy drive. XP Home Boot floppy Download and run this file,...
Do you have KB887797 on both machines? I ask because I have noticed lately that many links on web pages don't work while some do. It just...
Apparently not the problem since it worked before on the same drive BB.
Amen to that. I hope I'm not breaking any forum rule here but I just booted the NTFSDOS floppies and I can have anything on the XP NTFS partition...
I'm now wondering about the integrity of your Win98 install CD. An error like that doesn't make sense with no OS installed. Try copying the...
Guess what, a funny thing happened on the way to checking what I posted earlier. I turned Hibernate on (never use it otherwise) and allowed it to...
If you can't delete as TonyT has directed, then it could possibly be a user permission issue or perhaps Registry Key corruption. Check the Key...
BB, I think he is telling us that he tried it on two different drives with the same results so it isn't likely a HD problem
This link is probably the best explanation you'll get: http://www.theeldergeek.com/HT0_008.htm
A couple of things come to mind. GoBack has been known to get improperly un-installed and cause that error message (I have done some...
More RAM for XP is always a good idea. It makes a remarkable difference in speed of operation. They say 128Meg is the absolute minimum but i...
I can think of only one real advantage from using Standby - if it logs you off and if you use password protection, it could keep others from...
Hi Geri, If i had to guess, I'd say you have some non-Microsoft item installed to your context menu handler (shell extension) and it's...
I have ntfsdos also and I'll see what it can do. I suspect it may have some limits but I have never really tried to use it much. I have the full...
One parting shot before I head for the "Goose hair. " If you have been doing what you say, then you have managed to crack the security of the...
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