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Even on a Pentium 133 mhz machine with 64 mb or RAM the movement from one program to another is rather slow and the boot up is interminable. When the system starts up, I get the c> which only has command.com. I want to install dos 6.22 and windows 3.11. 1. How will the cd drive be designated and how would I

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
... in MSdos mode to install driver for cd burner (with driver diskette in the a: drive) the computer hung at a blank screen with a blinking cursor. The computer will not boot up , on boot up the computer shows the starting windows98 screen then says starting msdos program and hangs at the flashing cursor again.

Anyone got the Zip drive to FLY under Win95?
And I'd turned off the dual-boot feature; it's back on again. I feel like I'm back in the same boat I was in before, though. What next? Should I try the whole thing again? Ore rerun the start-up repair feature a few more times--will that switch Vista over to be the C drive? "John Barnes" wrote: Run the Vista DVD

Dual boot - remove one OS.
John shadow-...@excite.kom microsoft public win98 gen_discussion When trying to restart computer in MSdos mode to install driver for cd burner (with driver diskette in the a: drive) the computer hung at a blank screen with a blinking cursor. The computer will not boot up , on boot up the computer shows the starting

Automatically connect to wireless on boot-up
(b) Click the Update Driver button, then "Next". (c) Bolt "Display a list...", & click "Next". (d) Bolt "Show all hardware". Examine the two panes to see what is currently installed. That is likely what you wish to end up with, after step (4). (4) Boot to Normal Mode. Hopefully, the correct monitor will be

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BOS files and the program itself of course), Hushi/SCSI-tools displays immediately the text on boot-up "CD-ROM xxx on SCSI-ID Nr. 4" (that's in my case). And finally, when I deleted the HDDriver driver from my C: partition (using the Utils option "remove driver") and tried to install the old Hushi driver again

Appreciate any help in restoring C:
I have gone back and now have the exact wording I get when it tries to boot up. It says .. windows 98 has detected that drive C does not contain a valid FAT use the sys C: command that indeed I do it at the A prompt. And above as far as slipping the HD out and putting it into another laptop to do the install.

how to formatted disk on Mac OS 9.2
This will write the Vista boot records on your C drive and it will show up as the 'system' drive after the change "Mac (Croatia)" systemroot \Windows Mac "John Barnes" wrote: Good luck, but since you installed Vista to another drive letter, the entries in the registry are all pointing to an F partition.

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After those files are unzipped, run the INSTALL program in the temporary directory. This will add a \PLUGPLAY directory to the C: drive and the following Power the system down for about 10 seconds again and power back up. Let it boot up normally this time. When you boot back into Windows after disabling the IDE

Kids erase hard drive, CD-ROM dies.
If one came with your "kit", plug it into an empty slot, close the computer back up and boot Windows. Windows will install the driver for any new hardware (c; Let's see if it has...... Click START then RUN and type in winipcfg and click OK. When winipcfg boots up, click MORE INFO to make it show you everything.

Re^2: HD Driver 7.12 Question
I was eventually able to install the driver by other means, but my autoexec.bat still includes the commands from the failed installation. There doesn't seem to be any ill side-effects, but I'd still like to get rid of it since it continues to prompt me on every boot up. Here's what my autoexec.bat file looks like:

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Bit Twister BitTwis...@localhost.localdomain alt os linux mandrake On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:16:47 -0500, Dan C wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:18:41 +0100, logo on it) when you boot up? And when you are tired of the logo, Option "NoLogo" "1" will suppress it. If you don't, you didn't install the driver correctly.

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Just formatted C: drive and re-installed win98se. I have installed all hardware, and drivers...... But everytime I boot up I get a message saying "unknown device found" But it never say's what it is. It show's up in device manager under a yellow question mark that say's Other Devices. The only way I can stop this

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philo ph...@plazaearth.com microsoft public win98 performance when you boot up next time and get that message just put in your drivers disk and allow them to files are located but when I try to use it to install the driver from the "Add new hardware" installation in Windows 98 the drivers are not being detected.

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Next, if you have 2 or 3 or 4 hard disks on your old machine that you want to move over to the new machine, it is probably a good idea to make sure that the boot disk on the new machine is closer to the SCSI adapter board than any of the other discs that you move over, so that on boot up, the C: drive will be the

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A display popped up saying the program could not be installed (or used, I don't recall which) in Vista. Having failed to use that diagnostic program, The main drive (C drive) would not boot and he replaced it with a new drive. Having done that, he found he had an unused USB external a case into which he

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Works great, and there are no potential boot-up anomalies that way, either. Frog wrote: First, let me say thank you for all of the responses in this thread. G drive that has the C drive information on it and H drive that has the E drive information on it. The first update (one week after making the initial

Can I boot of an XP System disk, nested in a logical volume
Boogus.com> wrote: DJW wrote: OK I got a new CD-ROM drive, a TEAC md CD-22E-N83 and put it in the laptop I can hear it spin at startup with the windows 98 boot floppy in A drive which is more than the old DVD did. However it still will not bring up the Windows 98 install CD I have in the drive at startup.

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Each time the external drive was connected and I chose it, it booted up successfully. I was also able to boot my local drives including the CDROM with the eSATA from CDROM 5) Installed WindowsXPpe (full retail) 6) removed CD and turned off booting from CDROM 7) Booted from drive installed WindowsXPpe drive.

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Lane Lewis lanjlew...@earthlink.net alt comp hardware pc-homebuilt Is the cdrom detected on the boot up screen. If not you have to enable it, or you may have a I have formatted my C drive to re-install Windows 98 but now I can't get the boot disk to install the driver to get the CD going so I get no further.