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I need to change my hard drive. Will XP have probs?
When you are finished with this procedure, a registry is created that you can use to boot back into Windows XP. This registry was created and saved If the registry trashes and I'm stuck without the abilty to boot in WinXP, how do I get back to the old registry? I'm thinking I have to use NTBackup in WinXP but

XP Saga Continues
If you run VBP from the XP partition the way you have changed boot priority 'on the fly', you will overwrite the XP boot process. You would be able to reverse it later, if you actually can get back into VBP on that drive. Have you copied the files I recommended earlier? "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnho...@comcast.net>

NTFS and fdisk
Did you set grub to boot to the old kernel as an option? If not, then you can't get back into Linux except by a circuitous route. Add a section in /boot/grub/menu.lst specifying the old kernel with the newly created symlink. You should then be able to boot back into Linux with the old kernel.

Safe mode / Default Admin Password / Cannot boot normally!
Then , when we try to boot back into the Windows > 2000 disk, we get a blue screen saying "INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE". XPe seems to be trying to do something with the other disk. >>> Is there something that is missing from our XPe image? The component named "Disk Management Dynamic Volume Runtime" is already > part

can't access both OSs
when you want to re-install it, just format the disk/partition, boot back up into the other OS again & copy the backup copy back again. I regularly do a complete format & fresh install that way. It takes about 5 minutes to copy the 677MB in 6661 files in 428 folders of a very minimal WinXP installation.

2000 Proffesional booting problem
After XP copies files to install the OS the computer reboots and at the "reboot menu" I choose to install XP (the only other menu option is to boot back into my current OS -W2k). Next, I get the message "NTLDR not found. Press ctrl+alt+del." This puts the XP install into an endless loop with same message repeating,

I want my .pst back ,-((
Yeah, there are times I still boot back into Windows. Mostly to play Everquest. Games are still the crown jewel of Windows. There's an answer to this puzzle that I have on my "to do" list. It's called Win4Lin. It's a utility that allows you to install Windows 9x inside of Linux and it runs Windows as a hosted

win.com switches
(Yes: We BOOT from the SYSTEM partition and keep the operating SYSTEM files in the BOOT volume. That counterintuitive terminology goes back a long way and Install WinXP. 3. Install Vista using EITHER 3A or 3B: 3A: Boot from the Vista DVD and run Setup. 3B: Boot into WinXP, then insert the Vista DVD and run

Partition Magic 7 Screwed Me!
If the problem persists and this machine is a Domain Controller, then call or email me and I will call you back. If the original install is a member server then continue with the next steps WARNING: DO NOT CONTINUE WITH THE NEXT STEPS IF THE ORIGINAL INSTALLATION IS A DOMAIN CONTROLLER 7. Boot back into the

Can't log in to Windows XP
Used Partition Magic and resized XP partition to make room for Ubuntu dual boot install. Boot back into Ubuntu via Live CD and hit install icon via desktop. Go through all the install routine of where and what etc, and all is looking good... Gets to 82% of the install and decides to bloody well stop!

Multiboot does not wok
Go into your computers bios and set it to boot from the cd and format your drive and install. "Hope" <webb6...@charter.net> wrote in message It froze up and tells me that it is missing baseserv.dll. well i can't get the pc to boot back to the cd so that i may format the hard drive. I can't do nothing with it.

Kmode Exception while installing NT
Linux is more secure but only because it isn't worth hacking into so it gets a point. Score Windows 4 Linux 1. On these 'points', only the first is true, 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. So you have a crap install.

Comisserations Boo
I put all the setup files in windows so when i booted into linux off the bootdisk and ran the setup prog i could get them from across partition, this didn't work for some reason, so i turned the machine off intending to boot back into windows and now when i turn the computer back on, i get some BIOS screen telling

Is my hard drive dying?
The problem remains the same, even if: - old scsi device is attached to the computer (or not) - new scsi disk has same scsi ID/LUN as the old one (or different) If I take out the new scsi disk, I can successfully boot back into the Windows XP installation on the old scsi disk. Any suggestions anyone? cheers,

Opengl Drivers
Then whenever you clone the boot drive again, make sure that you always turn the keyswitch off on the copy drive BEFORE you boot back into XP again. That last can be a bit tricky to achieve depending on what you are using to do the cloning. At least one of the usual progs used to clone drives with will just

We're OT now... Re: Shared/moved Font Folder
So you can get on the Net & Ask for Help, once you Start following the procedure & when you have Deleted the Partition & then can't Boot back into WinXP? Of course, if your WinMe was Installed *after* WinXP (which is highly unlikely, but would mean that you would already have had to sort out how to get the

Help, please! Can't see partitions since installing XP!!
Your purpose is to boot back into a previously designated bootmanager configuration after giving the shutdown command on linux. Peter i understand issuing reboot command over ssh or vnc to a linux machine and booting xp(by setting the default in the bootloader), but once you are in XP, you have no access to the

Oops! lost WinXP in multi-boot config
Ah; I see they use the term "warm boot" to refer to the way "Secify a new..." does boot into DOS mode. That boot is just as cold as any .... It is far easier also to boot back to DOS than all the way to Windows. (I know because you said so. I still think I'd possibly have come up with this innovation myself,

ZoneAlarm and DNS ??
If he was having problems he would be able to boot back into 98. The IT guys disagreed with this saying that Windows XP upgrade would only overwrite the existing I don't know if this has been done with WinXP. Can I install the upgrade to another partition so that I can multi boot to 98 or XP (does an upgrade

XP and game controller problems
Also if i don't get a BSOD, I commonly get 'lsass.exe - sytem error. the endpoint format is invalid' So I had worked out a sort of solution, once i am finally able to boot back into XP, delete all the hardware from system/hardware and then schedule Check Disk to run upon reboot. then restart. pray for no BSODs,