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Games that don't run in win2k
Eventually windows would not boot at all and upon powering on the computer I got System32/System.sys is missing/corrupt. So I send the machine in to Toshiba repair center for a factory reimage (because the machine cannot boot off of the external USB DVD+RW that I have and has no internal optical drive).

DVD Drive has vanished!
I've found Windows has to go in first or things get broken. Cheers, Kevin. JAD <> wrote: I would clear the HD(format/remove partition) and then boot from the Once that was working then I'd add other bits (CDRW, DVD, sound, SCSI) one at a time. Still lost and confused by this problem as the system works fine in

cannot access cd-rom or floppy
For some reason it is refusing to hand over to Windows XP, after the POST Sequence (using IDE Hard Drive from old machine with files on). Everything seems fine up Oh by the way, I have attached my D-Bracket with the light sequences and they all check out right up to the final one 'Operating System Booting'.

Packard Bell - Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk, and ...
I know you asked about dual boot. I'm not using dual boot system right now, but when I did dual boot to two Windows systems, I used a free utility called EasyBCD I write frequent DVD backups as well as external disk (offsite or not) and stash DVDs around the house. Yes if the house burns down those are history,

Help required with Dual Booting Windows XP
I re-attached the Win2000 HD as a slave drive and can boot to Windows 98SE and see the Win2000 HD (files and all). I don't think I have any other bootable CD's unless Norton SystemWorks 2003 or 2005 will boot on their own (I haven't tried that yet). I have another Dell PC with Windows 2000 on it and DVD burner.

Can Win '98, NT 4 (sp5) and Win2K coexist
Johan Arwidmark johan.please_respond_to_forum.arwidm...@lutteman.se microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment When booting from CD/DVD Media you cannot change the default drive letter for Windows PE 1.2 If booting Windows PE from a RIS Server, it defaults to X: Windows PE 1.5 (Windows XP SP2) defaults to X: even

Installing Windows 2000 on Secondary IDE Channel [Dual boot ...
John John audetw...@nbnet.nb.ca microsoft public win2000 general microsoft public win2000 setup Were you booting Windows 98 with this exact setup before you reinstalled /fastdetect /NOSERIALMICE /maxmem=512 w2k is on C: in the active partition, w98 is on E:, which is the second HD (the DVD defaults to D:).

Dual Boot Linux/Win2k
You then dd the DOS floppy to your server, and configure BOOTP and TFTP accordingly to answer boot requests from the PC NIC. so I could feed it a dos boot-floppy I guess the biggest chunk would be 40-60 megs of windows and about 4 megs of dvd software. I might just turn off swapping all together and load the

Acronis 7/XP Questions
I have a Pentium 2-350 with 448mg of PC100 SDRAM, 64mb Radeon ATI 7000 Video card, PCI 64 SoundBlaster card, Liteon CD Rewriter and Liteon DVD player and 2 Get Windows NT4 Server boot working first before installing Linux. Some places to visit to get an overview of the installation, configuration and updates;

How do I boot WinPE 1.2 from CD with a FIXED Driveletter?
JMV jmvittoneDEL...@THIShotmail.com microsoft public win2000 beta file_system Multi-Booting Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95/98, What if I wanted a DVD drive (which apparently doesn't work with NT). Suggestions? The HD will be 25Gig. The company (Dell) will only preinstall Win '98 (FAT32) or NT (NTFS),

Problems Booting Windows 98
I installed a second copy of Windows in a new disk and, from that disk, I was trying to figure out if I can see the contents of my disks and, for my sureprise, Disk Manager can see the physical disks but can not activate them. Using DISKPART, all the disks are marked as INVALID. Booting the Windows DVD,

M200 Blue Screen problems
If I could get my usb, or dvd burner to work I could transfer it easily. I've tried alt, control, and shift F10 right after I hit the power button. I get the Acer start screen, then the black screen, then the windows loading bar. Actually I think on one, or two of those I get that text screen with edit boot option

Error message on boot up
RC White r...@grandecom.net microsoft public windows 64bit general Hi, Tony. 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? There are NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM, plus Boot.ini, which is not copied from the CD but built

dual boot for w2k and Linux 7
Tony Sperling tony.sperl...@dbREMOVEmail.dk microsoft public windows 64bit general Allright, I just went through that piece of Charlie's, and it seems clear now, 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?

Back to multi-booting the RAID - again. . .
The first time I had this very same problem was on a Dell XPS 700Tr. Windows 98 is runs fine. This system is a L667. Specs are below. I tried booting last Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live MP3 sound card 3dfx voodoo 4 4500 PCI Vdeo card 1 Toshiba SD-R1002 CD-RW/DVD drive MAG 800V 19 inch monitor US Robotics v.

dvdrtools and dvd+rw-tools problems and suggestions
However, no one (except Apple of course) has been able to boot Windows on the new production machines. So? The question was to load Tiger on a non Apple or your basement) $19.99 DVD Drive BTC 16X DVDROM $12.59 Total: $197.34 This would give the owner the ability to have the most flexible system to load any OS

Windows Vista Ultimate 64bits invalid disk
Once the system has finished booting to the desktop, verify that the CD/DVD/CD-RW has been properly assigned a drive letter and that it is being recognized as an optical drive (ie. the assigned drive has a picture of a compact disc above it). If Windows has correctly identified the drive,it can now be tested.

Vista partition recognition / windows xp partition recognition?
Colin Barnhorst c.barnho...@comcast.net microsoft public windows 64bit general You installed Vista second but by manipulating the BIOS, not by using the normal method of simply booting with the Vista dvd and installing that way. "Don" <d.burne...@clothes.comcast.net> wrote in message

Pioneer 303 DVD
The problems started when I tried booting Windows 2000, the computer will start booting the OS but then 'hangs' with a STOP error (blue screen) half way through CDRW drive Raite DVD-ROM drive 300Watt power supply If you have any idea what's going on I'de appreciate it if you could email me to the address below.

Dual Boot With Windows 98
I can't seem to make vmware talk to either of my two IDE CD-ROM drives (one CD-RW and one DVD-ROM). I've got: Device Type CD-ROM Mode Persistent Name /dev/cd0a is this correct? vmware doesn't boot from CD at all, it skips ATAPI CD-ROM in the boot list and goes straight to floppy. If I try booting windows 2000 from