Startup: Start Directly From Linux/ Asked For Win2000?
Nov 27, 2004
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
my pc boots directly to the desktop. I want the boot process to stop at the welcome screen, at which I will enter my password. Such was the case when I last used my computer, 3 days ago. No known changes. Windows updates is set to manual. There are 2 accounts, un & administrator. Both are members of "Administrators" group. I am trying to log on as un. The computer is neither part of a domain or workgroup. start > run > control userpasswords 2 advanced tab > "users must enter a username & password" is selected.
I am using Windows XP Home Edition. When booting up, Windows goes directely to loading files and takes at least 20 minutes before the sign in screen appears. Do you have a answer to solve this problem?
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.
This morning I come to my computer and it asked me for a password to login to windows. The funny thing about that is it I have never had a password. So I tried a cold reboot. no luck. Then I tried safe mode. same thing happens and I get asked for a password. The name of the window that comes up says "Log On to Windows". By the way I have XPpro. There are no name to pick from at the log on screen and nothing happens whe I click on the options button. Usually when you logon there are your own name plus an adminstrators account but I dont see any of this. Can someone please help I am desperate. I am a book keeper and I have all my clients books on there with no backup.
I just got a used computer ii's windows xp home edition downloaded some things and deletd backup files to stuff i don't know now whenever i click on something the the run as comes up and ask me for my admintrator password there is no password but when i click it says's invalid how can i solve this problem can i reinstall windows xp home edition and do i have to buy something for that.
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 am running Win xp sp2 with Sygate Firewall.In the last 24 Hours I have been asked by Sygate Firewall if I want to accept C:Windowssystemn32 toskml.exe.I have said no because I think it might be a nasty.What do you all think.
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.
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.
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 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 am on the road and trying to do a system restore. I use an external hard drive in my office but I do not have the external hard drive with me now. I can not get the restore to complete and I can not get the undo to fully complete. Is this not working fully because I am not hooked up to my external hard drive? When I initiated the restore it asked something about the external hard drive.
is it possible to download a file straight to the E (cd burner) drive? i don't know what i am doing, so playing around i just downloaded a file to that location, but it says the files are ~ready~ to be written to the cd and i don't know what steps to take next. i would be grateful for any guidance (oooh, and question - if i do manage to get files directly to the cd like that, will they still leave traces just as if i'd downloaded them to the hard drive?)
I've a computer with Windows XP Pro, which is not connected to the internet. Now, I want to update it in order to be all up-to-date and secured again. So I don't mean by just downloading SP2, but by installing all security patches available ever since! So I need to download everything first, burn it on CD, and then install the patches on my other computer. No problem. But the problem is: where can I download all those updates?! I've searched all over the net, and all I found was softwarepatch.com; it only contains english updates, and since I've a Dutch version of XP installed, those won't work. Simply changing the urls from xxx-ENU.exe to xxx-NLD.exe doesn't work either, different languages of the same patch seem to be hosted under a whole other url.
I used to use the XP home netwroking to provide internet connection to my xbox 360 i used the "home or small office network" wizard and chosed the first option which says "This computer connects directly to the internet..." so it takes the internet connection from the wireless network , and provide it the xbox through the LAN connection and it was working without any problem for a long time but lately i couldn't connect to the internet in the xbox and i found that the error was in the IP address the laptop is not giving the xbox an IP address at all
i installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my C Drive. and then installed Xp SP2 on my D Drive, in that sequence. now when the window boots it doesn't show the booting options and directly boots into XP SP2. i can not boot into Vista now. is there anyway i can make OS choice menu available / boot into Vista.
I have a computer that is linked to a linksys wireless router by a wireless ethernet bridge. My internet was working properly until a couple of weeks ago when it just stopped working. My internet connection says imited or no connectivity and packets are only being sent not recieved. I have connected my computer directly to the modem so it is not going through the linksys hardware at all and there is still no connection. I have checked all of my computers hardware and it says everything is working properly. Also I have made sure all the drivers are updated and working properly.
The Windows XP Pro SP2 CD (it's legit, I bought it from Microsoft) will not boot from when I start it up. I've already went into my BIOS settings and changed the Boot Order so it will try to boot from the CD-ROM first. What happens is that I get the "Press any key to boot from CD....." message. After I press a key, I get the "Setup will now inspect your computer hardware and configuration..." message and then the screen goes blank and stays blank. The blue Windows Setup screen never comes up. I've tried the same CD on another PC (it had XP Pro SP2 on it, not Linux) and it boots up fine so it must be my computer. Also, I tried booting a Windows 95 CD and I got a "BOOT DISK FAILURE" message. I do know that my computer can boot from a CD because my Linux CDs (Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mint) boot with no problems at all.
A few days ago I installed ubuntu on my hard drive, now I'm trying to reinstall xp, and I'm having some troubles. My hard drive is partioned, into two sections. One, a small one for the xp installation, and a bigger one for all my data. The smaller one I've installed xp on numerous times, never had an issue till now. With this same xp disk. But now, whenever I try, after the initial screen, (The one that lets you format, then it copies the files over to the drive, and then restarts your pc.) it either JUST Lets tells me to press any key to boot from the cd, as it did before, or, with no cd in, leaves me on a blank screen, with one underline in the upper left hand corner. I can wait for as long as I want in either case, but the xp installation never starts up. Is there ANYTHING I can do to get it to work? It never happened till I tried linux. People are telling me to just reformat the whole drive, but that has so much stuff to back up on it, and I don't have another hard drive to do it on..And like I said, it never did this till now. One other thing.
Before linux, the partion that always had windows on it was "c" and the data part was "d". now the windows setup lists the data part as c, and I never switched it, nor do I even know how..I also don't know if that matters, But I figured I should say it, just in case. If anyone can give me any help, that'd be awesome.
I have seen stores displaying XP software upgrades for previous versions of Windows. What options would I have if I wanted to place XP on my home built LINUX system?
I am thinking of running windows xp and linux on the same hard drive. I know I load windows first, but is there a boot loader that will allow me to choose which os I want to load up at start up?
i am thinking of getting rid of windows xp and using linux instead (DSL version 4.2).will i be able to install windows programs? will it have the featurss like a word processor and paint?will i have to install my own scanner and camera wizard or will it cum with linux? whats the difference between linux and windows xp? i know that the DSL version 4.2 of linux is only 50MB. and hardly takes any space of your hard drive, especially ram. will i be able to change the theme of linux into an xp classic theme or any other theme?
I've tried knoppix, ubuntu and some other ones, but is there any linux live CD's that allow you to save and edit files already on my HD? I'm talking files just like .doc's or .jpeg's
Windows XP will not boot. After the first "Dell" screen, a blinking underscore appears on a blank page. The hard drive and all hardware are fine, as confirmed by friend computer wizards. This is without doubt a software problem.
I burned SLAX (a linux derivative) to a live CD and set my BIOS to boot from CD. SLAX is fantastic, but I wonder if I can restore windows to a previous point or investigate my boot sequence using SLAX's file manager There is a high likelihood that I have a trojan.
Side question: Would you recommend trend micro antivirus over norton? is there another antivirus option you'd recommend more highly than both of these?
I am removing Linux on 2nd drive Need to use FixMBRWhen entering password for login in XP recovery console, I get kicked out I cannot remember what I set up 2 years ago I have the login for my profile which has full administrative access s there a workaround to change the password on the actual administrator profile from with my profile?
