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Are you on a network by chance?

[QUOTE=Peter Lambros]the fdisk command is not available for Windows 2003[/QUOTE] That's because you need to boot to a pure DOS environment to use fdisk.

[QUOTE=edbuck]I get an"Invalid Boot.ini file booting from C:\windows" message when starting up . I use WIN XP. I have done a search for this file which shows 0kb as contents. The computer boots up after this message but I tried to repair or reinstall win xp but because of this …

Registry corruption sucks. When you boot up trying the F8 option, choose "Last Known Good Configuration." See what that does.

You can't.

Far, far, far, far, far too long every day. I leave here (work) to go home and play games, surf more, download gigs upon gigs of stuff, then sleep only to repeat the cycle.

So you're running a normal OS, and VM'ing two other ones at the same time? That's putting some pressure on your hardware for sure.

[QUOTE=alc6379]...Of course, if your son is knowledgable about computers, he may already know how to reset a BIOS password jumper. My Advice: Have a BIOS password. Have a Windows password. Lock the keyboard in a gun safe when it's not being used, and lock the door of the room containing …

You'll need a network bootable disk with smartdrv on it. Boot, map a network drive to a share containing the installation files, execute "smartdrv", change directory to i386, then "winnt". That's the basic rundown. If you're unfamiliar with DOS commands, it can be very confusing at first, but I can …

[QUOTE=gkdmaths]Hmmm... take this suggestion only as a suggestion. I'm sure that someone else will be able to respond in more detail. I have no idea why you're running into this problem, but whenever I've needed to reformat (I used to do it quite a bit) I would use Linux. Again, …

Yes, 11Mbps. You answered your own question. To reuse an old adage, "A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link."

[QUOTE=viperman224]try checking the processor I had a PIII 450 come up with no video and I pulled the cover and my processor was lose[/QUOTE] AMD's are all sockets, I doubt it's that. Sounds like a power supply issue, or something could be grounding out. Take everything out of your case …

[QUOTE=caperjack]make sure there isn't a bent pin on the monitor cable where it connects to the video card or try removeing and Reseating the vido card unless you have unboard video of course .[/QUOTE] This should be the first option. Don't tear the monitor apart unless you know what's going …

My first box was an Acer. My sister owns one as well, for whatever reason. I haven't really heard anything bad about the Travelmates, but you may want to price out a comparable system with HP or Dell. Just go to their websites and use their online configuration tools, or …

[QUOTE=InmatesGirl]I wish that I could do a System Restore, but If you read my post....It tells you that I CAN NOT start my computer. So how would I do that if I cant even get the computer to boot up? Anyone....PLEASE let me know what to do.....Should I boot up …

That's odd. Processes tab, yes. Do you have SP1 installed?

I knew I'd seen that problem before, and only on a laptop. :) Glad to hear it's fixed.

[QUOTE=dlikos]Ive been looking at other threads in this forum and there are discussions of kernels. I don't know anything about this, what are these?[/QUOTE] They don't apply to you. Try an older version of the Detonator drivers. 31.08 sticks out for some reason, or maybe it's 41.09.

[QUOTE=)BIG"B"Affleck]RTFM ....[code]man man[/code]....ect,ect......[/QUOTE]Wee...no one should have to man command for everything. When I want to install a fourth window manager, I should have that option, without it being cryptic. pkginstall isn't cryptic, but that's because we know it. The "Newbie" install for Slackware as an example, gives basic functionality like …

[QUOTE=)BIG"B"Affleck][b]What airport did you pick up this laptop at.[/b][/QUOTE] :lol:

[QUOTE=)BIG"B"Affleck]check on the back of your hardrives to make sure you have the jumpers set right [b]not to say RTFM but read in the manual about your jumper settings[/b][/QUOTE] Negatory on that, good buddy. Windows sees the drive. The drive is there. The drive has no partition information. He needs …

I wouldn't be male if I didn't enjoy talking about cars. Computers, mainly networking and system tweaking. And while there is always something to improve upon with a system, you can be entirely too anal about some things. Example: memory timings, temperatures, and raw speed in general.

[QUOTE=antioed][font=Trebuchet MS]Yes 2002 + 6.5 and later Ghost should work. [/font] [url="http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2000062209523525?Open&src=w&docid=1999010613522725&nsf=ghost.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl"][font=Trebuchet MS]http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2000062209523525?Open&src=w&docid=1999010613522725&nsf=ghost.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl[/font][/url][font=Trebuchet MS]=[/font] [font=Trebuchet MS]"To perform a disk-to-image cloning operation on a dynamic disk, run Ghost with the -IA switch on the Ghost command line, such as Ghost.exe -ia Ghost supports creating a [i]disk[/i] image of a dynamic disk …

You could number the tracks with leading zeros, but that would be too much of a pain. And yes, it's a limitation of the filesystem (CDFS ?).

[QUOTE=CJ555]Hi I recently got an mp3 player and when installing the software I found out that it cannot be installed on Win 98, only 98SE, XP, and 2000. Can I upgrade to another system? and how? Will I lose any information on my computer? Thanks![/QUOTE] Technically no, the upgrade process …

What's your power supply wattage?

What happened was that XP setup wrote a new boot sector, pretty much erasing any existence of a plain vanilla 98 installation. You can't really do anything about it other than format and start over, along with an fdisk /mbr before you reinstall 98.

[QUOTE=Sambo]Ok so I just built this computer and everything was going good. Then It just stopped powering on. I press the power button and nothing happens. Sometimes it starts up but quickly shuts off before anything happens. I can get it to power up by taking the power botton jumper …

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Video volume level in sound properties?

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Open up a command prompt window. This is performed by typing "command" at the run box on the start menu. From the black box that pops up, navigate to your Desktop directory...try "cd C:\windows\desktop" only without the quotes. Then type "dir", again without the quotes. Look for the filename that …

[QUOTE=)BIG"B"Affleck]Why does everyone use [b]Winblows Internet Exploiter[/b][/QUOTE] Because it's there. Why would Joe Home User want to download a new browser, especially if he's unfamiliar with the new Dell he just received at his doorstop?

Isn't that a known problem with XP? Drop to a command prompt and try to delete the file. Say it's called movie.avi in d:\download\ Click start, run... type "cmd" tap the Enter key d: cd download del movie.avi Try that.

[QUOTE=chanto!]Are you logging into your laptop with your domain user account and not a local account? Also, is this laptop joined into a domain? Try to open the SMB/CIFS ports on Norton.....I think they're ports 139 and 445.[/QUOTE] Oh, nice, but 445 isn't needed if the domain is an NT4 …

[QUOTE=slade]Any ideas on how to create one partion of all the memory on the HDD? At the moment, it's all unpartitioned space and needs to be formatted using ntfs, all in DOS. Any ideas?[/QUOTE] Use a 2k or XP cd and use the utility there to format it. But don't …

Would need some derivation of a linux boot disk so you can extract the .sam file from the hard drive, but I'm doubting that your daughter would be comfortable with something such as that.

[QUOTE=f575gtc]btw, I opened my computer to check if i could install another hardrive and I found this 2 flat grey wires one had master writen on it another had slave writen on it and there was also black, orange ,and yellow wires all connected to a white square connector is …

Yeah, water + electronics don't mix. You just don't get involved with water cooling unless you're absolutely sure you could stomach your system having the chance of being completely destroyed. That said, cooltechnica.com is one of the better sites to get your materials from.

If you're on a network, it's much, much, much simpler to copy the disk to folder, share it out, and install the software from the network. No need for a cd as you can set permissions on a share (or hide the share completely - share$ is wonderful!) so no …

[QUOTE=caperjack]Go to device manager and remove the drives and reboot computer to reinstall the drivers for the cdroms[/QUOTE] Yup. And this may be a long shot, but have you fiddled with the jumpers on the back of the drives?

If the router's not handling the VPN session, then any would work fine as long as you opened the correct ports. I would recommend a Cisco PIX 501.

[QUOTE=LEXluthor]i know a software can solved that porblem, Partition Magic.it supports any window file system and Linux. let say you are using fat32 in windows Me.You can acces to NTFS in diffrent drive location. also be careful using this software,one mistake can delete you current OS. LEX, LEX,[/QUOTE] Or breathing …

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So, in Windows, computer #1 doesn't see the drive, correct? You need to browse to Computer Management by right-clicking "My Computer" on your desktop, then clicking "Manage." From there, you should see the disk in the right-hand pane. You may be able to right-click it and choose "Change drive letter …

[QUOTE=Faranth]/me also moves this to Windows NT section if i could :([/QUOTE] It's always about permissions, huh? ;)

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[QUOTE=)BIG"B"Affleck]sorry I was talking about xp[/QUOTE] Even then, Windows XP doesn't require anywhere near 8 gigs for a typical installation. I'd like to see where you got your figures. Jeff, is your C: drive the only hard drive you see in My Computer? Do you have say, C: D: and …