I recently installed Windows XP Professional to my home PC. I re-formatted
my hard drive and converted to the NTFS file system.
I often do work at home. My office uses the FAT 32 file system on its LAN.
Is there a simple way for me to move files between these two systems?
davidg
The common denominator seems to be Word 2000 – that is the programme
causing the trouble.
Faultlog tells me:
WINWORD caused a general protection fault in module USER.EXE
EXPLORER caused a general protection fault in module USER.EXE
KERNEL32 caused a general protection fault in module USER.EXE
The first two happened simultaneously and gave me the blue screen of
death. The last just shut down Word with the message: "Kernel32 has
caused an error in USER.EXE. Kernel32 will now close"
And now Word is unstable.
OS = Windows ME if that is any use.
So…help!
Can anyone give me a quick answer to whether Win98 will run OK on a Pentium
Pro machine. Also want to put a standard PCI hardware modem in too.
Appreciate a definitive answer. I can’t see why it woulsdn’t but know that
they would normally have NT or 2000 installed so not 100%
Thanks
Just an FYI, sharing what I’ve learned…
I have a bunch of Microsoft Certificates of Authenticity and have no
way of knowing which ones belong to which software package. (Thanks a
lot, former I.T. Guy at my company.) I called Microsoft and they
cannot help with this…there is no way for them to know which number
goes with which product.
Another news-poster said that s/he has used different certs for
different software and they all work with each other.
So although this is not legit in Microsoft’s eyes, I guess you can use
an unknown cert for an installed product for which you are missing a
cert. That’s not what I’m doing, I will just disregard the unknown
certs, but you do what you want.
I have lost my password to windows. My computer does not seem to
recognise the system-cd. What to do?
i am trying to put my current hard drive from an old compaq, into a
new motherboard, case, cpu, etc…, i wanted to keep all my software,
and upgrade everything else. now i cant get win 98 to acknowledge
that there is even a floppy or cd-rom drive connected at all. if i
disconnect the hard drive i can boot from the cd or floppy, but then i
have nothing to reinstall to? Whats the problem?
Hi. I need some advice.
I am running Win98 on a Celeron with a 4GB hard disk. For historical
reasons, the disk is partitioned into two 2GB partitions. Initiially
only one of these had Windows on it (the other was a linux partition).
Now I want to bring the other partition over to Windows.
To my understanding, all I should need to do is run FDISK to specify
the second partition as a logical drive D:, and then format D:. I have
done this successfully and even run Scandisk on the resulting drive
with no reported problems.
I did this a while ago, and had a working D: drive for several weeks.
Then one day I booted the computer and it wasn’t there. I tried
various things to recover it, but eventually I resigned myself to the
loss of data, and repeated the process above to create it all over
again. This new D: drive lasted a couple of days, then it too
disappeared. Now I cannot even get a D: drive to survive beyond a
single reboot.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? Am I doing something
wrong? Is it a hardware problem? Or a software problem?
Ultimately I’d really like to eliminate the partitioning altogether
and go back to a single 4GB C: drive. Is there any easy way to do this
without wiping my entire C: drive and reinstalling everything?
Thanks,
Malcolm
I’m trying to shrink my Win2k partition and use the extra space to
create a new Linux one – using Ranish Partition Manager if you’re
familiar with it. Anyway, the documentation for RPM says you can only
resize a partition if it begins on head 0, sector 1, and ends on head
254, sector 63 – i.e. if it takes up a whole number of cylinders.
Looking at the summary of my partitions, however, I see that my Win2k
partition begins at head 1, sector 1, and all of head 0 is taken up by
an "unused" partition, size 31K (I’m assuming that’s the size of a
single head). Anybody know what this partition is, where it came from,
and how I can work around it? Thanks.
What are the best settings for the swap file on Windows 98 SE
with 2gb HD and 128 mb memory? 366 emachine.
Thanks
On my new computer, a Dell Dimension 4400 running Windows XP Home
Edition, I have noticed that an old DOS program that I still use
frequently, called GrandView, attempts to access Drive A (3-1/2 inch
floppy drive) whenever I open Grandview.
This symptom is relatively harmless, I guess, but I find it very
annoying. Based on some research in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, I
have the impression that this is a problem that Microsoft recognizes.
In fact, I believe there is a solution for it under Windows NT, which
involves obtaining an updated service pack. However, I don’t know of
any solution for this problem that is available under Windows XP.
One simple fix that occurred to me is to go into Control Panel /
Device Manager, and disable Drive A. This does solve the problem — I
have tried it, And of course I could enable Drive A the next time I
need it, which is rarely.
However, I am concerned that disabling Drive A may somehow prevent my
computer from booting up after I turn it off and then turn it on
again.
Any comments would be most appreciated.
Robert Lawrence
