What you need is a boot floppy that has your CD Rom drivers.

Boot to the floppy, copy the i386 folder from the CD to the hard drive (I prefer to put it into its own small "D" partition...) and...

I have a pair of 160gig sata drives one was going bad so I tried to clone it to the new drive. It has a dual boot 98 and XP.
The old drive is gone and the new system works but the drive letters...

If Windows is Preinstalled they put a sticker on the case with the serial number. Using that number you can install XP from another source or order a replacement CD at a reasonable fee.

Oh.. On...

People really need to use the XP option to create a password reset floppy when they set up a system.
Even if you change your password then forget it you can just drop in the floppy and reset it.

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I hope we can agree to disagree.
I cannot have the blind faith that you do in ANY product.
(Much less any Religion or Political Party...)

Personal information and preferences of...

Check to make sure that the OS didnt go back on as a fat 32 ...

You miss my point entirely...

It is supposed to do what I want and not what it wants...

It is supposed to alert me when any new software tries to access the internet..

It did not... It...

I did allow it to update itself and register itself then locked it down.

I want to control when a program logs on...

I am fed up with every program demanding internet access

Programs DO NOT...

It may have been trying to upgrade itself...

But I had configured it NOT to do that and it changed its own access to full open

I use spybot and ad-aware and hijack...

Oh, and McAfee A-V had...

Dont you just hate a program that is supposed to protect you and repeatedly tries to access the internet even after you go in and specifically deny it access.

My other firewall alerted me...
No...

One suggestion...
Create a ghost of the Win98 system before you continue. At least it will let you get back to this point with little problem.

With 98 I could run setup and reinstall 98 over itself without losing programs or icons.

If I just wanted to refresh my XP files without losing everything can I do it.?

Sorry to ask such a...

I looked and did not find the old one so I reposted..

I had updated info to try and narrow down the problem

The new Thunderbird and Firefox did not help.

IE can send files with attachments...

I have had a real problem with Emails failing to send if they include an attachment

I can receive email with or without attachments and I can send email without attachments.

I am narrowing down...

Set Zone Alarm to ask permission for all programs trying to access the internet and it will give you a pop up request prior to dialing out that shows the name of the program.

After you find the...

We need more info.

Is your modem part of your motherboard as in AMR...

Is it PCI... ISA...

I would run Hijack this...

It sounds like something is running in the background and trying to find a way out of your PC...

I would also run spybot, adaware etc...

You can also manually...

Depending on what types of files you are trying to protect you can just zip them and use a password for the zip.

You can even make them executeable with a password if you want.

You can double boot to multiple operating systems...

But in your case I doubt you want that.

XP Home is fine for most users (even small business)

There are only a handfull of differences...

I assume you checked the cmos to verify that the ports are activated...

Have you tried another USB device on that same port.

Download a copy of Knoppix or Mepis.
They are both free to try Linux Live CD's that will let you open and copy those files.

F11 may only be one key but it takes my hands off the home keys.

For me ctrl- X,C V works just fine with less hand movement.

If you can hit Z through ? and the F keys withough moving your palm,...

I have a better solution...

If your child will not give you the password, take away the computer.

There is NO justification for behavior like that...

Having a PC is not some guarantee in the...

Problem was finally solved...

The DVD recorder was one that had slots for memory sticks.
Even though I disconnected the ribbon cable in trying to figure out the problem I did not disconnect the...

Update:
I tried several things with the same result.
I finally took the fresh hard drive out and put it into another machine and using the same cd and the same hard drive the install went as it...

I considered the antivirus problem and so did the user. It appeared that everything was disabled. I still had the same problem...

To insure that nothing was running I took a spare drive,...

A friend just brought me their pc. It has XP home and they wanted XP pro. They tried to do the upgrade and it bombed.

They bought a new copy of XP Pro...

It just hangs at the setup screen......

I wrote a program to do that a few years back. It would create a filename using the current date. It was easy to set the parameters of the backup to whatever files I wanted to save in the backup. I...

The only real advantage of ntfs is for files larger than 4gig...
I have only needed that once ripping 8gig dvd to an ISO and got around that by making smaller vob's

I have seen many more people...

That sounds more like a software problem than a hardware problem
You could use one of the Linux LiveCD's to test it without installing anything to the hard drive... (You may even like it...)

I...

Nice to hear your problems are gone.

The Short Answer
Yes...


The Long Answer,
Yes...

I would like to se a directory listing of the existing single system disks that they give you now. It might be easier for us to fix the flat instead of reinventing the wheel.

So, you need to make...

There is a misuse of terms here.
Multiboot means multiple operating systems.

If you are ghosting you are doing a preinstall / reinstall

pcmcia ... I assume you are working on laptops...

You...

Drop in the drive, but you will need a bootloader.

If you were to install XP after 98 it would automatically install a Windows bootloader. But adding 98 to an existing XP will not.

You can try...

Interesting..
I ran the wsock fix and it said to reboot.
It started back into windows then rebooted again.
It then came up with a hard drive not found.
I checked CMOS and it showed no hard drive...

Download a copy of the freeware winsockfix

If you can update AD-aware and spybot online but NOT reach a web page that might be your soultion..

Just a thought...

Spend $10 and buy a New Network Card with drivers you know will work...

I have XP on a machine and it has a working dial-up account.
I can access the internet and update Spybot and Ad-aware but both internet explorer and firefox refuse to bring up a website.

The XP...

I used to use a program called laplink and it had a special cable that would work on the serial port or the parallel port

I seem to remember there was an option for direct connect in the setup on...