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Multi-boot from XP
So I boot back into XP and use it's Disk Manager to remove them and recreate the orginal FAT32 E: partition. I'm thinking all is well, Win98 sees it too. Then I go run fdisk again to remove the E: because of a problem the linux installer had with resizing it. Well, not only did I not get an NTFS message this time,

Repair Install set C: to G:!
I deleted what I believe was a desktop.ini file. something like that. after resetting the PC, I am unable to boot up back into windows. what happens is it goes through the normal booting up, but it cycles over and over again. It never gets to the Windows logo screen. there is one screen that flashes really fast.

I think I've been hijacked
If you have enugh RAM to boot into it, you *do* get logged on and you get an annoying pop-up thet tells you you don't have enough swap space. DOS7 has an option to boot back to the old operating system. The old boot sector is saved in the root folder (should you choose to) and if you hit F4 at boot or F8 and

Urgent
Linux is more secure but only because it isn't worth hacking into so it gets a point. Score Windows 4 Linux 1. The majority of webservers on the internet run If you use the ext2 file system you may not be able to boot back. So yes crappy Xfree86 can bring down the whole system. Maybe for average planetarium

Unable to boot. can't get to windows.
After selecting a restore point, the system will boot back into Safe mode stating the restore was succesfull, and boot to the desktop, in Safe mode. Attempting a normal reboot from Safe mode begins the loop all over with the same error message. I know typically when you cannot boot to Windows it generally indicates

Target.lnk error - Windows XP
It's a pain in the ass to support two OS's and boot back and forth between them. That is the best way to run Linux right now and it needs to change (I'm certainly not Development into a more modular Linux OS as whole is much needed. Better must be the goal. The installation is very important yet only step one.

Dynamic Disks in XPe
On my last install of XP the boot loader phased out the install of ME and I can't get it to boot. I checked the boot.ini and made a modification to it without saving a copy of the original and now I can't get the computer to boot to ME, only XP or W2K. 2 questions: 1. How can I boot back into ME and, 2.

NTLDR NOT FOUND
Had power outage, and when tried to boot back in, got message that c:\windows\system32\config\system was missing or currupt. Used Windows CD Rom to boot to Can't CD into them, or copy a file out. Used an old win98 startup disk and can get into directories fine and copied files. Any ideas what to do? Thanks. -John.

how to clone Windows XP installation on a SCSI disk ?
I've read that you can't boot into XP if you install GRUB into the MBR. Will I ever be able to boot back into linux? How can I create a linux rescue disk or linux boot disk? The laptop has a cd burner, but I really won't know if it will work under RH 9. I guess as long as I don't screw up XP, I can always use

Dual drives & mobile racks
Don't export directly into to Outlook on XP, export to a temp folder and then try to take ownership there. 98 should certainly be able to access the file on Then boot back to XP and see if you can copy the file over to the XP setup. Another thing you might try is using the information I gave you with regard to

UNABLE to boot. can't get into widows.
Hope this helps John Barnett - MS MVP Associate Expert -----Original Message----- Friend install XP on D drive. (dual boot), fat 32 option.XP setups up, reboots the machine, error "NTLDR cannot be found". Can't boot back into windows 98se ( C drive)or XP. Tried sys c: command from floppy, no go. tried fdisk /mbr,

Dual-Boot blues
I, myself, occasionally boot back into Win98SE to play legacy games. However, if the trolls hanging around in AOWX are any indication of the general intelligence level of the Windows camp, then we would have already won. Non sequitur. You can't win against an enemy that does not have the mental capacity to

System Restore won't run
Here's the announcement, about two weeks ago: <http://www.macgamer.com/news/item.php? id=3573> D2 is the only reason I boot back into OS9.x anymore since 10.1 came out. Same here. It runs in the classic environment, but it's too slow to be playable, my right mouse button doesn't work, and RAVE mode looks ugly.

Just in case anyone is wondering....
Now once I boot back into XP Pro things are seen a little differently, Disk Management shows me 2 separate disks with the same configuration, and Explorer shows me 2 I installed WinXP Pro from scratch on this machine, I had to press F6 to install the promise driver, but everything seemed to install fine.

SDIMGR/SDI2HD and CF, a puzzle for everyone, (including the ...
If you have the WinXP CD and you can't boot back into Windows try a Repair Install. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm "Pat" <pjsim...@cox.net> wrote in message news:038301c389e1$22e9a410$a301280a@phx.gbl... I am running XP-Pro on a Toshiba laptop. I downloaded a critical update security pack.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Rebooted off a winME boot disk, ran FDISK, both partitions are there. I try to delete the 2nd partition, I can't. It tells me there are logical drives. I try to delete the logical drives, it says there are none. Now I'm really screwed. I boot back into XP, run PM7 again and delete the bad partition from there,

Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade
The virus still hasn't shown itself, but after the Repair installation, I have to boot back into normal hard-drive mode. I run the mcafee from the Safe-Mode command prompt under admin, but there are still many directories that are just registering as innaccessible I can't seem to get to them any way or how.

Defrag = Windows Doesn't Boot? (Serious Problem)
Basically by editing boot.ini That is, how do I edit the boot.ini? By booting XP, by repairing the boot files so you can boot XP again. When logged into RC Just understand how the XP boot process works, use the recovery CD to repair the XP boot back to what it used to be and then manually add a single line to

Can't Boot to XP
This will save all settings - but software (all programs) will have to be re-installed :-( Boot into Safe Mode (new installation) & logon as Administrator, then follow these steps (same for XP as 2000) After the steps, boot back into normal mode (new installation) and your old profile should be back PSS ID Number:

Promise RAID 1 Problem
COM) with Win2K's older versions, which cannot recognize the newer WinXP as a valid OS. Simply replace these older files with WinXP's files. When I had tried to boot back into XP, I got a message that said that I wasn't able to get into win2k because of a file that was missing >can't recall what file it had