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  How many hard disks do you have in the computer? How many partitions do you have on the disk(s)? To remove the dual boot options edit the boot.ini file and remove the superfluous entry. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311578 How to edit the Boot.ini file in Windows 2000 You can also use the Windows XP Msconfig utility to check for and remove invalid boot paths in the boot.ini file. Just download the utility,...

  Dan, have you tried Add Hardware in Control Panel? Check out this MS Article and troubleshooting guide. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314634 http://www.usbman.com/WinME%20USB%20Guide.htm "Dan Rogers" <dr@dr.net> wrote in message news:uvTZlu3cKHA.5524@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >I did a clean install of XP 64-bit on a Dell 9150 which is a 2.8 GHz >Pentium-D based machine. The machine has...

  Trouble wrote: > I installed a new hard drive on a friends Dell desktop after his > crashed. After installing XP I had a tough time finding drivers for > all the hardware. Dell's website had a tons of drivers for his > build number and it took forever to find the ones that worked. > > I'm thinking I should backup my drivers and while I see a lot of > software for this I...

  Rich, Thanks for the response but unfortunately these suggestions did not change anything. I am an MSDN subscriber so I have started the process of using one of my incident reports to get help. DR "Rich Barry" <rbarry@socal.rr.com> wrote in message news:uG4xPO4cKHA.1596@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Dan, have you tried Add Hardware in Control Panel? Check out this MS > Article and...

  Hi David, Of course I put the files I downloaded for my friend on a CD. But I was wondering about my machine which is working fine. If I had a hard drive crash I would like a driver backup along with my data backups. "David B." wrote: > Back up the files you downloaded. > > -- > > > -- > "Trouble" <Trouble@discussions.microsoft.com>...

  Hi, I am having a problem logging into XP: I am in the progress of migrating to Win7. As a temporary solution I want to have a dual boot capability, i.e. I bought a larger HD, created two partitions on it, installed Win7 on the first partition, and then I used a disk-imager to copy my entire old XP disk 1:1 to the second partition. I then set things up so I can now choose between the two partitions using the Win7 boot manager. The...

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  What type of floppy drive? USB? Will that be recognized during the setup process? Thanks for the reply! "Andrew E." wrote: > Buy a floppy drive,new start at about 15.00,a good pc shop sells > used for about 5.00 > > "Nick" wrote: > > > I need to install XP on a few systems... > > > > None of the systems have a floppy...

  It happens that Nick formulated : > I need to install XP on a few systems... > > None of the systems have a floppy drive and I need to be able to load a > driver and use an unattend.txt file during setup. > > How have some of you gotten around this? I was thinking an external USB > floppy, but I'm pretty sure setup wont see the drive if its connected USB. > > ANy...

  I have just backed up my whole boot drive using the backup program that comes with windows xp. I'm wondering what I would have to do to restore everything if I have a hd crash? Would restoring all the files make the new hd bootable and in the same shape as the old one? Help appreciated. .