I have win2000 which i installed as upgrade over win98, now i want to get rid of it all and just do fresh install of 2000, could someone please give me step by step instructions to do full install and how to get to the msdos prompt. I havent done a fresh reinstall for years so pretty rusty on it all.
Im not actually gonna do it, but I have a Windows 95 install CD Rom and I put it in my computer (XP operating system). It said something like "run with MS DOS" which I tried using the "command prompt" thingie and it did NOT work. How would I go about running MS DOS to get 95 to install [if i choose to]?
My old computer is a Dell Optiplex GX1 Pent3 with a fresh install of Windows 2000. My brother had been using it with Win 98 and a dialup connection and all was fine. Prior to that I had it on a DSL connection. Now I want to get it back online at home where I have a cable modem and my usual computer with a DLink router.I know the router and cable are ok because I just had another XP computer on it.Nothing I do will seem to connect the Windows 2000 Pro to the internet . I tried disabling the onboard LAN connection(a 3COM 3C918 Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller and installing another LAN card but that didn't work either. I also connected it to the modem without the router.
I work at an company of which I choose to remain anonymous. We have an intranet set-up, and I would like to get onto the internet, just to watch videos or check e-mail during the slow hours. It will display the intranet, the webpage for the company itself (the public webpage), the testing site for our recruitment testing, and thats it.It gives me a message as if you attempted to access google from home, but unplugged the ethernet cable. Today I accessed a site I run through angelfire through ftp.angelfire.com, and it displayed the contents of my server, but I can't see the photos or anything.
when a memory failure corrupted the OS. Compaq runs its setup from a special partition on the HD and Ive reloaded all of that from floppies. Setup says I have a 26.2GB HD but it is 60GB, otherwise all tests pass. In setup under storage the help file says I can select the boot sequence but I cant seem to find anyway to do this?? Id like to boot from the Win 2000 CD, I did make a boot floppy set from the 2000 CD but it dies on disk2 with a "isapnp.sys corrupt". Downloaded another makeboot.exe diskette set and get the same message. The original OS starts to load off the HD but stops with an error message and only allows a reboot. Can I move this HD to a slave on an XP system and load 2000 that way and then move back and configure the different hardware? Or just boot from the CD on my other PC and install
I have just re-installed Windows 2000 and I have a strong wireless signal to the usb adapter but cannot get connected to the internet. What is it about 2000 networking that is the trick to this? I have it set up to obtain an IP address automatically. By the way it is connecting to a wireless access point, not directly to the router. The access point is piggybacked off the main router.
i have windowsxp pro edition , my system was attacted by the virus called win32/villa.plsma virus ,after cleaing it from mcafee antivirus ,i have problem wile running dos programs ie., it prompt has 16-bit ms dos program is not a vilid win32 program and it gives option as retry and close ,what should i suposse to do wintouting reinstall the windows,pls sugges me revilent answer to my problems.
I need to flash my router but to do so I have to be in 'pure dos'. This means using an msdos disk and using it when system starts up. It all goes fine....however....The directory it starts on is A: and I want to get to C: I have tried using commands such as 'chdir C:' but still no luck. Goes anyone have a clue how to change the directory?
My computer cannot load windows because my "Windows" program is in my Hard Drive C:. The night before I accidently made E: Hard Drive my primary. I have 2 Partitions Hard Drive C: and E:,I want to make C: drive to be my Primary,currently E: is my primary. How do I make C: my primary with the "Active@ Partition Recovery" program or any other MS-DOS partition programs that loads from boot?
I have 2 computers that i need to know what is the max hard drive size. One computer is running winME and the other is running Win2000. As for the win2000 i changed the registry for 48 bit LBA support in order to see my 320gb drive. The reason why I ask is because I'm planning to purchase a 750gb or 1tb external hard drive to backup my system. I don't want to purchase it to find that the system can only see 500gb or something like that. I'm gonna post this same post in the winMe area.
I have my folder options set to show hidden files, but I cannot locate the msdos.sys or config.sys files, and I use Windows XP Home. How do I locate these files?
Recently installed XP Pro. Since then a couple of older programs won't open and I can't load anything from the A drive without getting this er16 BIT WINDOWS SUBSYSTEM C:WindowsSystem32Autoexe.nt The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsft Window applications.Chose "Close" to teminate the applicationI found an earlier post that suggested going to
I have an MSDOS application (point of sale) which works well in XP, except when it prints the ticket. It lasts approx 20 seconds before it decides (XP) to print the rest of it. If I close the application, it prints it immediately. Does anybody know how to force it to print immediately?
Using WinXP-Pro-SP2 on a Dell XPS Gen2 running at 3.4GHz with 2GB RAM. Ever since I upgraded to SP2, command mode hasn't worked properly and it's driving me bonkers. Symptoms:
(1) Many of my BAT files no longer function properly. E.g. a simple BY.BAT with only EXIT in it does nothing. (2) Every command entered, other than DOS built-ins, gets the response: 'C:Documents' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file... and then sometimes the command executes and sometimes it doesn't. (3) Good old 'DOSKEY' no longer works at all. I cannot get DOS to repeat the last entered command.....
I have a partition with Linux and winXP so when I switch the pc on, I get the initial page of suse where I am asked if I want to start with linux or windows, if I don't change to windows in a few second, it will start directly from linux. I would like to erase this partition, is there an automatic way to do it? Or at least, if it's too difficult to erase it, I'd like to start directly with windows.once loggen in windows, I am asked whether I want to start with winXP or win2000, but I don't have win2000 installed , so I'd like to erase this option page and log directly with win XP
You helped me fix my work PC today and one of my coworkers asked me to post this for him regarding his home PC.He has Win2000 and lost all his desktop icons, start menu and task bar. He has to do a ctrl-alt-delete to do anything.All of the previous fixes here appear to be for XP machines.
I recently tried to reinstall windows xp, but the installation was interrupted and left me with a partially installed windows on my hard drive. Now, whenever I try to install again, it gives me the error: NTLDR is missing. I made a msdos boot disc to reformat my drive such that I can try installing windows again. However, I have two hard drive (one for windows and programs and one for storage) and I don't know which one is which letter. How can I find this information, so that I don't accidentally wipe my storage drive?
I'm trying to figure out how I can search for folders using command prompt. But it's a little more complicated then just that. I have a huge list of folders in excel and I need to search in just those folders to see if there are folders in them. is there a command I can use to search for folders in each location? I was thinking I could use excel, with the list of folders i want to search through, then write the command to each folder and paste everything into notepad and save as a bat file. Then have the results go into a text file. This sounds complicated, but any help would be much appriciated
I think this happened when I ran AdAware. I cannot connect to my wireless internet had figured out that my IP ADDRESS is all zeros. I know my ip, I just don't know how to tell my computer what it is! If you cannot tell, I am barely literate in computers.
For whatever reason, I cannot type when I ope the CMD prompt (Start/run/cmd) However, when I type in command it works. I believe this has something to do woth the fact that my itunes & quicktime have just stopped working
I want to uninstall an application ActivCard from a command prompt with the same results that would be had using the "Add/Remove Programs" GUI in XP. How do I do that
I have Windows XP on my computer, and when I try to ping something through the command prompt (command.com), this shows up:Running tracert also has the same problem.If I try running ping or tracert through cmd.exe, it stalls and doesn't do anything. I have to close the program because it doesn't respond.I can use ipconfig in both cmd.exe and command.com. Do I have a virus on my computer, or is there a way to repair the command prompt?
I have a Dell Dimension 3100 Dell systemDV051 BIOS versionA03(10/08/05)it will not let me get any further than the blue screen,I click on safe mode or any other and it just returns me to the blue screen at the bottom of the screen it has the codes 0x000000ED (0x8716C7B8,0xc0000006,0x00000000,0x00000000) I do have the original xp reinstallation CD but I don`t know how to get a C prompt to use the disk.I do hope you can help I have limited knowledge.
After setting up a password for the pc, I changed my mind and want the pc to boot up without showing the password prompt. All I've been able to find is how to remove the password but not how to prevent the prompt from popping up.
When changing the title to the cmd prompt and after closing and then reopening it reverts back to the old title ? My path in the Cmd Prompt window > C:> title
cmd prompt closing instantly when i go to run under the start menu. Anything that involves the command prompt closes instantly also. I'm not sure if i've changed anything lately
in my pc commands are not working in cmd prompt (some commands are working properly) i got the error like is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
I've got a bit of a problem. My command prompt (run cmd) has decided that it doesn't know what "help" is. Heres the output and my path is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.What is wrong This can't be normal
Whenever I use CMD in Windows XP, it automatically goes to C:/Windows when I need to do something specifically in C:/ When I go "cd c:/", it'll just take me to C:/Windows. Is there a way so I can access C:/