So it would seem. I think that if you want further help it would be better to close this thread and start another with a more accurate title.

Well, I have Partition Magic 8 from when it was PowerQuest, but I don't really think it makes any difference. If you can find a trial version go for it!

As the windows utility doesn't seem to know what to do with it, you are going to have to try one of the third party utilities to get that partition formatted. Once that's done, things should get...

Oops! What EXACTLY did Disk Management say about that partition?
Under those circumstances I would use my copy of Partition Magic to access it. If you search the internet there are some free...

Just select the partition and right click, and you'll see Format as one of the options.

Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, then under Storage, Disk Management.
That should tell you what partitions are on your hard disk. It would seem that you are using a...

Let's take one step back. In your original post you said 6Gb memory. That doesn't make sense. Are you talking RAM or disk space, as neither makes much sense.
I have a 320Gb C: partition and my...

If you run your cursor over a folder it gives you the size of just that folder. Treesize will tell you the total size of that folder and any sub-folders as well.
What kind of install did you do to...

Also why are you looking at the E: drive? Whatever happened to C:?

Have you checked all the system folders are visible to you? Use Windows Explorer, on the Tools menu select Folder Options, then on the View Tab, set 'Display contents of System Folders' and 'Show...

Nice idea, but we're talking about a LOT of emails, dating back several years! I wouldn't even like to guess how many! Into 4 figures at least!!!

After a clean install of Windows XP (SP3), I reinstalled my copy of Office 2002, and despite everything I could think of it could read my email but it wouldn't send anything. It complained about the...

As you can appreciate, things are a little quirky at the moment. Several System Restores didn't work, and just to be on the safe side, could anyone else agree with this approach?
(Sorry, but I...

Oops, I got the sequence wrong. Should have read:
1. Uninstall IE8
2. Download IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe and run that - no action - curiously I couldn't find an icon anywhere, An entry 'Internet...

It was downloaded (both times) courtesy of Help and Support/Windows Update. If you can't trust that, what can you trust?

I am running XP Home SP3 fully patched.
I was having trouble with IE8 in that at times it was unable to follow a link and came up with a connection error. I tried the same action in both Firefox and...

Try avast or avg. They both have free versions.

This may sound like the install from hell, but I'm still trying. I wanted to try out Linux after a *very* long association with windows, but to say I'm having problems would be an understatment. Let...

Have you tried booting into Safe Mode? You should be able to run your anti-virus/malware software from there. If you can download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, run it and post the results here, someone...

If we're going back to basics, there's an awful lot of applications that have an 'invoke at startup' box that's very easy to miss. We still haven't heard from the original poster and we don't know...

Try WinPatrol. You can not only disable items in the startup list, you can also make them have a delayed start, and you can decide how much delay to give them.
75 really does seem too much. I think...

That's what is so annoying. I have previously downloaded the Seagate tools, and it only failed the SMART test. All the others worked. And I did use /r on each chkdsk. I have been deleting files on...

And it failed miserably. Got though Phase 1 OK, and on indices got into a loop saying "Inserting an index entry into index $0 of file 463599". So I don't think that's very good, either!:'(

Would that were the case! The drive remounted OK on reboot and was not full. I really don't know what chkdsk was doing. In the process of deleting some files, the delete failed as one directory was...

I have a 750Gb Maxtor USB HDD mounted as G:. I just received a message saying "G:\$Secure is corrupt. Run chkdsk". So I did (in a cmd window). What I got is this:

C:\Documents and...

I have downloaded Spybot S&D version 1.6 (which seems to be the latest). It installed correctly, updates OK, and runs just fine. But when I ask it to fix the "errors" it just hangs. I have tried...

It's very simple. Don't use the CD writing software that comes with Windows. Not quite the same case, but I couldn't read a CD that was written with the Windows software.
Use ANY other software to...

That's what surprised me. I remember that earlier OS's needed KEYB** files on the disk, but I thought XP was better!
Any and all suggestions requested

Forgot to mention - it's a proper PS/2 connection into back, and NO it's not a Dell !!!

I am trying to run Spinrite (6) to check one of my disks. This worked happily from a bootable floppy on my last machine, but despite everything I try - boot menu / bios setup I cannot get my new...

I received a reply from a private list that said that running notepad.exe from a cmd prompt opened a window for notepad. I tried this and it did, and when I tried my applications they worked both...

Sorry, don't pray to intermediaries. Prefer to go to head office directly.
And curiously, I tried a DOS window earlier and it didn't work. Now it does, and that's all I could ask for!

Something really strange is going in. I ran the program from a DOS prompt and it worked. I then tried the window shortcut on my desktop and that worked as well. So the problem seems to have gone...

My system restores don't go 2 months back, for some reason, so that option is definitely out.

For many years I have been using Borland Turbo C++ (version 3) to run a vital (to me) application. It has worked quite happily on 98SE and all my variants of XP Home (SP1, SP2 and SP3). The last time...

I am closing this thread and opening a new one about the 16 bit engine not working anymore. Maybe I'll get a better idea of what has happened?

I'm on XP Home SP3 (32 bit) and as I've said I would like to keep the program running until I can replace it with a Visual C++ version. The question I keep asking is which fix has disabled the 16-bit...

Would that it were that easy. We are talking about two months ago, and mine don't go back that far.
As a point of interest, I have run Process Explorer and it showed an access to ntvdm.exe, which is...

The point is that it worked perfectly with SP3 until mid September and now doesn't. If I could find which fix did that I could uninstall it until I can get the replacement program up and running!

Unfortunately, there is no conversion utility between version 3 and anything higher. That's why I was continuing to use it. I am slowly learning Visual C++ to convert it to, so why do a second...