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New Macs with the Intel processor
Don burnet...@clotheshotmail.com microsoft public windows 64bit general Btw, when I launch VistaBootPro in windows XP, it first gives me a message that the If you set the XP drive as the boot drive and then boot the system with the Vista dvd you will get variation of the drive lettering (no real problem) and

How do I boot WinPE 1.2 from CD with a FIXED Driveletter?
(or even Windows on another partition). "Graeme Milne" <graem...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:q%w26.17617$ca6.313263@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com... Hi all My dvd drive is Samsung 606B. My drive has now vanished upon booting Windows 98 I keep getting an error message Sec Master is ATAPI incompatible Can

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Windows XP came preinstalled on my 20 GB primary partition. My aim is to dual boot XP with Windows Vista Beta 2. I want to create another separate primary Finally, I would restart the PC from my Windows Vista BETA 2 Installation DVD, enter setup mode for that OS, and select the 30GB primary partition to install

Unable to install Vista.. (ERROR After Installitation.)
I know you said you already tried with a 'bare' drive but new drives often come already partitioned (some even with utility software, boot managers etc). There was no evidence of any Windows or other partitions. IMPORTANT: An external CD/DVD drive is required to perform a system recovery. The System and Application

5ema+
Assuming I get them working in Linux, of course, too ugly to keep booting Windows other than as proof-of-concept for burning. -- bill davidsen <david...@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-REQU...@other.debian.org with a

Dual Boot Installation to External HD
I recently installed a new CD-D burner/DVD-ROM drive into my system (Samsung SM-332 Combo burner). Since then, whenver I boot Windows 98-SE, I get a freeze-up after the Windows screen, just before it loads the desktop- everything seems to be fine up until that point, and it recogizes the CD-Rom as the secondary

DVD/CD-RW Drive problem
BIGEYE wrote: Got my new build up and running, however, my SATA2 second HDD is not shown in My Computer or Windows Explorer, it is being recognised at boot up. I have 2 x Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB SATAII Hard Drives and a LG SATA2 DVD Drive. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Socket 775 8 Channel

phone device software
Don d.burne...@clothes.comcast.net microsoft public windows 64bit general The ironic thing is, when I first opened up my Vista box, and inserted the 64 bit dvd into the drive, I had planned on booting from the dvd anyways, so it was not a big deal at the time. I have the full retail version of Vista Ultimate.

Please help, boot problems
Both are set to boot CDROM first and works fine booting windows xp disk but not DVD. Any idea's what it might be or hardware setup etc? DVD writer set as primary slave and cant really think of anything else. Cheers ^-^ Is the drive an LG brand model? If so, give up. There's a bug in the LG firmware that causes

Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?
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.

net-booting windows from solarisserver
John Barnes jbar...@email.net microsoft public windows 64bit general Tony, you can drag and drop the ntldr and NTDETECT.com files directly from the XP64 install OK - So I wade through the XP DVD looking for the Boot Config files, but I can only find NTLDR and NTDETECT. There has to be one or two more, surely?

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
Malke ma...@invalid.invalid microsoft public windows vista general twinriver1 wrote: I am using Vista Home Premium. I understand that this Vista does not allow dual boot. I am considering upgrate to Ultimat. I have two questions: 1. When I upgrade, sould I jut pop-in the cd/dvd and let the Ultimat do the upgrade or

Dual booting Windows 98 and Windows XP
Hello Everyone: I am in the process of setting up a dual-boot system with Linux and Windows 2000. Following is my HD configuration. Please note that I am using a PCI ATA133 controller card in addition to the onboard IDE channels. Onboard: Primary Master: CDROM/DVD Secondary Master: Burner PCI ATA133 Controller:

My ubuntu experience
You'll only have to do it again next month... since solaris doesn't do dvd and divx... Wrong i know my statement is not exactly true and I have happily watched can/can't solaris play divx and dvds discussion ; is it possible to boot a windows machine from a solaris boot/fileserver like linux can (for example) ?

Reinstall Windows
I did this by asking the BIOS to read the CD-Rom drive to boot from. There is no option to boot from the DVD drive in the BIOS. 2. Try starting in Safe mode, Safe mode with networking, Safe mode w/ command prompt, LKG config, and normally. Same error screen. 3. I can get a screen "Windows Boot Manager" asking me to

Hang-up/freeze when booting windows
I should note that this is an upgrade path from Windows 98 (I did the upgrade about a year ago, been running fine until now). In any event, when I plug in the internal DVD/CDR I bought, I get the blue screen. Interestingly, I tried plugging in a USB CDR and I get the same thing! So I can only really boot with the

Error booting Windows with MSI K8N Neo 2 platinum Edition
This is a project for tinkerers, don't rely on this for your stable working Windows installation. Installing Windows on an external USB drive is not just a matter of changing the boot order in the BIOS then sticking your Windows CD/DVD in the drive and telling it to install to the USB drive!

Dead PC
If the Boot ROM doesn't support the particular type of device, you're just SOL for booting from it. You'll have to look at the setup/configuration screens to see what choices your drives on the motherboard. there may not be All (4) IDE slots are filled with 1 CD burner and 1 DVD burner and the two hard drives.

net-booting windows from solarisserver
There was no hard drive activity, so it did not look as though it was booting Windows. No beep codes, not even the normal short beep when I power on. I have checked the monitor and graphics card connections. System is: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA72X mobo 128Mb PC100 SDRAM 20Gb Fujitzu hd Teac CD-RW, Pioneer DVD Sound

Vista frozen after vista updates installed
For example, the ubuntu install cd would load up, and after 7-10 minutes just freeze. with the gateway windows vista reinstall dvd, The screen came on as normal, showed the Gateway boot screen, and then went to the windows vista screen where the little green bars scroll across the screen while it boots.