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EXTREME delays booting into XP with ADSL modem
Brian bcl...@es.co.nz linux redhat I have a laptop computer and was thinking of putting Linux on it as a second operating system so I have a choice of either booting up into Windows XP or Linux Red hat 7.3 The Laptop currently has Windows XP and Windows 98, I can boot up in either operating system.

Why get 0x0000007B error when booting into Windows XP Home ...
Sharon F sharonf...@ETEmvps.org microsoft public windowsxp accessibility On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:48:03 -0700, Havoc wrote: I reinstalled my OS, setup a Raid0 configuration and everything was working fine, I moved the computer into another room and now when it boots i only get to the windows xp splash screen and it

booting and partitions
I'd much prefer to wipe the disk clean and start anew so I can partition the hard drive from the get go - booting into the XP Pro installation from the CD. What are the proper steps, please? And, what is the precise method to properly register and activate this installation so it is noted that the Product Key on

Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
cb cbo...@bigpond.net.au bigpond broadband users Dudes, When XP boots, I get the welcome screen, and then the PC sits there for about 2 mins.. no disk activity etc and eventually.. it gets into the desktop.. and then crawls for another 30 secs.. then resmes as normal. When I disconnect the ADSL modem and USB

Problem installing xp sp2
Never saw an option during a Windows XP Home install. Thanks, Joe Peter Kaufman <n...@email.com> wrote in message news:<0i9pf0104suf72fsufoppeq0eos1hn5ofc@4ax. com>... Try this but generally upgrades of this nature never really work out well. A complete reformat and reinstall will give the best result.

Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
(I've been booting into Vista Ultimate x86 for the past several days, getting it ready for the automatic Windows Update to SP1. I already have SP1 in x64.) Since then, I have spent some My system boots into XP Pro by default, which is really what I want for now, and I can choose myself when to boot into Vista.

3.9's Slows booting into XP
Have you tested booting into Vista via a Win 98 MBR? Yes, I tried it with one of the Vista Release Candidates and Vista failed to boot after the change. Maybe the final Vista release handles disk signature changes differently? I did made a XP-MBR on Vista and it works ok. Note te disk signature belongs to the

EXTREME delays booting into XP with ADSL modem
-Neotrode On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:14:10 -0500, EnsignRicki wrote: Hi, I have a dual boot setup with Windows XP and Mandrake 8.1. I am able to boot into Mandrake 8.1 into X but after a few seconds after logging in the whole thing freezes. During the Installation procedure I made sure to select the correct video card

Booting Into MS-DOS without a floppy
I have read up some on dual booting Vista with XP, and understand that restore points, will become deleted when dual booting I believe. I boot into XP almost daily to enter my accounting stuff so I basically never have restore points in Vista. Vista is my op system of choice so I guess if I have a problem it

OT / Windows XP or Vista?
It seems strange I can't do a fresh install of Win2k when in XP, maybe XP feels superior and thinks I should'nt even think of installing an inferior OS to it :) You should be OK as long as your PC supports booting from a CD and you have a bootable CD. It does'nt :\ so my only opstion is to get into DOS and run

XP-Pro keeps booting to sandisk and will not stop
Or from Properties/Tools as usual, defrag's in there too Chkdsk will automatically suggest to do the check at boot if you want to check the windows work disk, since it can't access system files when xp is running. This chkdsk version only has the name and interface in common with chkdsk for dos, it's a windows nt

XP Keeps re-booting
Hayden h_g_f...@yahoo.co.uk bigpond broadband users "cb" wrote: Dudes, When XP boots, I get the welcome screen, and then the PC sits there for about 2 mins.. no disk activity etc and eventually.. it gets into the desktop.. and then crawls for another 30 secs.. then resmes as normal. When I disconnect the ADSL modem

Need advice on setting up a dual boot vista / xp?
Hi Had a Windows XP Pro machine behaving perfectly normally untill Saturday. On Saturday it boots up, get menu prompting to boot into Safe mode etc. Have you tried booting to the XP installation CD and were you able to get to the opening setup screen? If so, try accessing the Recovery Console see

Booting into Windows XP
I am running XP Home. Do not copy the source partition onto another partition, instead copy it into, what PM refers to as 'unallocated space'. So what I mean is: For example you have a 40 Gb drive, of which 20 Gb is allocated to an already existing XP installation, and the other 20 Gb is unallocated > now simply

booting into mb bios in xp
OP doesn't say whether or not can boot to other XP!! Now you're starting to get the picture. ;) Steve N. "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote: Go to Start > Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter. Click on the BOOT.INI tab and then click on "Check All Boot Paths" to delete incorrect boot paths. If the above does not work for

Computer freezes after booting into X
Has anyone else experienced a slight slowdown when booting into XP. The blue welcome screen stays on much longer before finally bringing up the XP desktop... I noticed that the 3.8's did this too. No other issues with the drivers however. COD works fine for me. If I switch back to the 3.7's XP boots at its usual

Problems Booting into XP.
Now, I've tried booting in safe mode and this produces a somewhat usable system. I can run msconfig.exe and have attempted rebooting after disabling all Boot into safe mode and use Boot Logging. You might see a driver or something that's causing the problem. From Win XP Help -- "Starts while logging all the

problems booting into windows xp/2k with ak77-333
Lenard len...@insightbb.net linux redhat begin virus.exe On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:58:05 +1300, Brian wrote: I have a laptop computer and was thinking of putting Linux on it as a second operating system so I have a choice of either booting up into Windows XP or Linux Red hat 7.3 The Laptop currently has Windows XP and

Booting into Linux or Windows XP?
Regards Brian Joe Fredrickson <j...@volutin.net> wrote: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:47 pm will from hence forward be known as the day Brian blabbered: The Laptop currently has Windows XP and Windows 98 If you are willing to lose 98 then this will be a very easy task for you. I have a single 20 gig hard drive partitioned

Booting into XP
When it comes stick it in the drive (I suggest that you use the desktop), reboot, and follow the instruction to set the computer up to dual-boot Linux and XP. This will only take a few minutes. After that when you boot the computer you will be offered a choice of booting into Linux or XP.