I have had some XP problems, which have involved me installing several versions of XP.(all of them are gone now except the one Im using.)The problem is, When I start my computer, It gives me the option to start in all 3. (only 1 of which works)I thought the file to edit to get rid of this was boot.ini, but I cant find it anywhere. I have searched my whole computer
View 6 RepliesRecently I reinstalled the OS on my computer. It was shipped with Windows XP HE SP2, but I formatted and put Win98 onto the system. Needless to say, it froze up at the Windows splash screen. So, I uninstalled it and put XP back on. My question here is, is there any possible way to put Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows XP all on one hard drive, and it work? I know how to partition the hard drive accordingly for the deed, it's getting the computer to actually run 95, 98, and 3.1. I'm cheating fate here, since I know 3.1 probably won't run on my 32-bit structure system, but it's worth a try. My system is a Dell Dimension 4700 with 3.0 gHz CPU, 256 mb of RAM, and an nVidia 64 mb video card.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI Installed a 2nd HD and cloned my first HD to it as a backup and would like to be able to dual boot. This is XP Pro. I would like to know what numbers to use in multi, disk, and rdisk.
View 3 Replies View Relatedhow System Restore works in a multi-boot environment? (I am not concerned with Vista, but with WinXP only).If I have O/S A and B, and I perform a System Restore in O/S A, is there any possibility that O/S B will also get rolled back to the same date? In O/S A, should I allow System Restore to monitor the O/S B partition, or should I switch off System Restore on that drive?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have Hp media center with 1 Tet. dirve (this was installed) lateron. I had installed meida center 2004, 2005(winXp pro) when Vista Came I Installed Vista unfortunately clean install. so I lost xp.Now I am tinking to install win98,2000,vista and linux if possible then Media center winxp pro ver.How I should procede. If I go by installing with win98 and partitioning and installing os.
View 3 Replies View Relatedup to recently I had a Multi boot system, i have a 120gb HD it had 20gb for XP for my Famliy, 70gb for me, and 20 for backup. I Decided to make a pc for everyone else and once i copied there files with Partition Magic formated there partition which was C:, now i cant access my partition
View 5 Replies View RelatedThe LCD screen during boot up has multi-colored static verticle lines 1/3rd of LCD My OS was re-installed on this past Monday. There were not any noted problems. Today I installed Norton SystemWorks Premier 2005 without ant noted problem. I then installed Norton Internet Security 2005 and during the installation it detected that a previous version of Norton AntiVirus was installed and requested that it be removed. I did that and followed the correct steps. And rebooted. I then installed Norton Internet Security with AntiVirus without any noted problem. I was requested to download Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and I did and then I was requested to install Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 HotFix (KB886903
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a friend, seriously - it's a friend not me, that had to do the windows genuine updgrade. She paid the $150 and instead of just plugging in the new product key she inserted the CD they mailed her and started a new install of windows. It seems it had trouble locating files and now she gets a option to select which operating system at start.The setup won't continue (it can't locate files on CD - maybe bad disk) and when she selects the original XP pro setup it won't let her past the login screen.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am try to two partition drive C and drive D in my computer but only one c or d instoling. i have 4000mb hardrive,please tell me how can i instol partition in my window xp professional.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would consider myself as an intermediate PC user. I can install a hard drive and stuff like that, but when it comes to stupid windows problems then I get stuck easily! Currently my PC refuses to boot into Windows XP Home. It will just get as far as the loading screen, and it flashes a blue screen error and restarts. The blue screen is far too quick to see anything, which doesnt help!
This I assume was all caused after I decided to repair my Windows installation as things were running a bit slow. I have now gone through the repair installation 5 times. Alas, it does not work. I took out my TV card, all my extra bits of hardware, disconnected my secondary hard drive, but it still wouldnt boot up after repairing it. Also ran a chkdsk, took a very long time, but had no effect. I honestly do not want to do a clean format and install as I don't want to loose all my data. I can't even get into safe mode to do any backups, it still gives me the blue screen of death, and restarts.
I have WindowsXP-home. when i boot the computer it starts normally, i get the desktop and all the icons but i cannot open any application. The only thing i can do is ALT+CRTL+ DEL and log off and log back in with the same users or different user.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have XP home (OEM install) and it comes up with windowssystem32configsystem files are missing or corrupt . Windows support has only a fix for "FULL install disk" not OEM. Is there a way to recover my data??
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy XP home laptop will not boot it shows a black screen with with message asking you to select from Safe Mode, Safe Mode with networking,Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Lat known Good configuration and Start.Windows Normally. If I select Lat Known.. or STart Windows Normally, it displays the XP start up screen briefly and then shuts down and starts again. For the Safe modes, it displays a lot of system files, and again turns off and starts again. I think my disk is corrupted. I would like to retrieve data from my disk. I have a XP recovery disk, but it will wipe all data off the disk and return it to the state when I bought it.so I don't want to use it. Is there any way I can boot the PC from CD(it doesn't have floppy) and recover data from the disk?
View 14 Replies View RelatedHow many of you here use multi languages on the PC? I am having a BIG PROBLEM with the Language Tool Bar. I've been using English an Japanese on my PC and this never happened.I used the Microsoft Office 2003 Language Setting to "add" Japanese and it's been running fine. But today, all the sudden, the Language Tool Bar disappeared. Language Tool Bar = The bar appears automatically on the screen when you are using multi languages on the PC.If the Language Tool Bar is in inactive, it's restored on the Left-Bottom of the screen. Eng for English, Jp for Japanese. So I tried removing the settings and re-added, re-started, nothing happened. Also I tried Control Panel, Regions and Language Setting, added Japanese (it was already added), nothing happens.In fact, if I see the current settings, there are English and Japanese there! I tried Spybot and Ad-aware to see if any problem. Then re-started, result, same. Updated IE to 7.0, result, same.I didn't change any settings today, no new downloads or installations before this problem occurred.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to install Win XP Pro into a second partition to dual boot with an original install of Win XP Home. Both are installed and working with the exception of an application that I installed in Win XP Pro that apparently has some hardcoded assumptions that the product is installed on the C: drive. Since Win XP Home was the originally installed OS, it has drive letter C:, with Win XP Pro getting assigned drive letter E: when it boots.
Ideally, I would like to have each OS bootup with its boot partition appearing as drive letter C:. The other OSes boot partition doesn't necessarily have to even be seen when the other OS boots, although it would be nice. There is also a third partition on the drive which I need to be available to each OS when booted, again preferably as the same drive letter. There are also a CD-R and CD-RW drive installed, which prior to the Win XP Pro install appeared as drive letters D: and E:.At this point I am looking for the easiest/quickest way to obtain the desired results, ideally without having to uninstall/remove either or both. I am willing to look at a third party boot and/or partition manager as well as manually switching between active partitions within Win XP Home or Pro prior to reboot.
I would like to load XP Pro on an XP Home PC and have a dual boot (do not want to lose the software by a fresh install) Can I have 2 operating systems on the same partition?
View 14 Replies View RelatedWith all reasons aside for now (mainly because it would be too much typing), if I were to create another small partition other than my main "C" partition on my 320 Gig drive and install XP Pro on the small partition then would that cause problems and conflicts with my main C partition? The small partition that XP pro would be going on would have the drive letter "G" since I already have "D, E and F" taken up by another physical hard drive, DVD-RAM drive and Removable Disk.
So basically my question is that if I make a small partition "G" on my 320 that has my main partition "C" on it, would I be able to boot normally with each one and not have any conflicts? Also, I assume I would have to download a boot loader. Which boot loader is the best to use? And, this is kind of an experiment process in that I don't know that I will even keep the G partition so if I were to reformat the "G" partition and add the space back to the "C" partition then how would I go about removing the no longer needed boot loader?
Today, when the XP boot screen appeared after post, my machine rebooted. Went to MSKB and followed instructions for Recovery Console, but when I got to the money shot, I was denied access - tried this 4 times, same response. Tried repair install, but after drivers loaded and auto re-boot, XP boot screen appeared and machine rebooted...vicious cycle.
View 11 Replies View RelatedAll of a sudden my WinXP Pro is highlighting multi files to be opened. If if click lower on the screen all files above are highlighted. How do I stop this from happening?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOne question about Multi-Core and Mulit-Processor machines. It is the duty of the operating system to make use of all the cores and CPUs? or it is the duty of the running application? And which one should optimize this task?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have to do a complete wipe and reinstallation of XP. It runs slow,reasons unknown. Anyway, on the old system, we had 2 users, both with administrative privileges. I need to know whether multiple users will cause the performance to drop in a major way. I understand the answer is yes IF both users remain active with programs running. But, we close our programs and log off completely when we switch users. Will multiple users on a system bog it down if only one user has programs running and the other user is logged off?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have just got a new PC which came preloaded with XP Home. As I wanted to use XP Pro I nuked what was on there, or so I thought, and installed Pro from scratch. Now when I boot up (as distinct from booting it which I would like to do regularly,) when it starts it gives me a screen asking if I want to boot from XP Pro or XP Home etc. Is there anyway I can get rid of that first screen please?
View 13 Replies View RelatedI'm building a replacement PC and would like to boot off my original XP Home edition HDD. Its an E-Machines OEM version of XP home, is this possible as I only have the CD that came from E-Machines with the PC? Do I need a repar CD? If so where can I get one? I really don't want to loose all my settings.
View 9 Replies View Relatedwhere is the boot screen located and what is it calledi want to change it also the welcome screen i dont want to install 3rd party program just manully edit the image and save change saving it in same place with same name and copy originalfile to my docs 1:where is the boot screen located and what is it called2 :where is the welcome screen located and what is it named3:is there any where i can download cool boot screens free without instaling prog like bootskin
View 1 Replies View Relatedcan I create a dual boot system. One side Pro and the other Home? Or better yet, can I install pro over home and keep my computer intact?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI upgraded an XP Home PC to XP Pro using an upgrade disk and some how have got a dual boot situation. On start up I get the option to boot up in XP Home or XP Pro. I just want XP pro how can I get it to cancel the dual boot and go straight to XP Pro
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was having trouble accessing my Windows XP Home edition from my dual boot Windows XP Home/Windows 2000 Professional system. I used both Win2K and WinXP CDs and their respective repair functions and no help. When I select the Windows XP Home operating system from the boot select menu I get a message that some file for Windows 2000 is corrupt and to use the Windows 2000 CD or F8 function.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIts strange my videos are multicolored like a rainbow some of them are and some of them aren't could it be a codec problem? can anybody help i haven't been on the computer scene for a long time
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a compact laptop bought second hand but has problems.
1) Firstly when it is switched on it asks to choose between either windows 98 or windows 2000 pro (the one i want to use)
2) On loading up windows 2000 it works fine however when i try to use many options such as; volume control, disk cleanup, msconfig, majority of .exe files etc it says "access to file denied" or "cannot find the file "xxx". make sure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available" - this is despite the file it is looking for being the one I want to use.
3) On searching futher I noticed that in my computer along with the usual WINDOWS directory. I have 2 other operating system folders in their entirity. WindowsNT and Windows 98 - I think that having all systems on my computer must be reason for it not working
4) I have tried to uninstall windows 98 using its own uninstall program however get the message "cannont find "xxx" etc
5) I have a feeling the windowsNT is just cd contents and ahs not been setup properly and could therefore simply deleted but I ahve not done so just in case
6) If i begin the laptop ion windows 98 much more works, including sound etc, however the uninstall still does not.
7) Misc problem - I cannot install any more programs when running windows 2000.
Everything was lovely with my boot.ini file,I have XP Home, XP Pro, Longhorn and Windows 98SE. All on one hard drive, different partitions, of course.I installed Windows ME ( not sure what gave me that brilliant idea)and now my boot menu is messed up. It initially eliminated 98 and put Windows ME there, so I added 98 back, but if I choose 98 it still goes to ME, which is on an external hard drive. I installed ME by booting with a 98 bootdisk with cdrom support, and installed ME to the external drive.Is there any way of getting my 98 boot option back? 98 is still on my main drive, I can see it, I just can't boot to it
View 14 Replies View RelatedI don't really know where i should start so.well earlier today i installed a second hd in my computer to pull so files off of it for my sister and my mom, but when i got it working it said accsess was denied to there stuff i went on my moms computer to check if i hade already backed up there stuff of the old comp, so i go into her document to see if i could find the old documents and when i start scrolling through them the window freezes...so i leave it for a minute and while i'm waiting i close some other programs one of which was mozilla which was also frozen.I go back to the my document window and its still frozen.
I try to close it and of course its not responding so i click end now and it made the every thing disappear like the task bar and all the icons on the desktop are missing...so i wait and see if any thing will reappear and nothing does so i restart it and it starts booting up..the windows logo comes up and the little bars only gets half way across then it restarts and brings me to that menu where you can choose save mode or start normally and all that and no matter what i pick the comp just restarts and bring me back to the menu.