... A quick summary of what's below: forget it. You don't mention backing up. Check the archives for horror stories - mainly unresolved. If you can't back up I...
... <snip> A second perusal indicates there might be a need for a postscript to what I said earler: Those words "pre-installed version" might just imply that...
I agree with Dermot... don't do it w/o a backup... I have used a cheaper tool (Paragon Partition Manager) and it gave me great results (even where PM would not...
Yeah i also agree to everone comment on the issue. Especially, "Recovery CD" is not of all that use except installation of winxp. Backup and then cut short the...
... DOc CHiron here: I recently went through this myself for my sister-in-law who had a slow Deskpro2000 (Intel 233MMX) When I last went to Compaq tech support...
DOc Chiron here again: I'm fairly certain that the COMPAQ DIAGNOSTIC PARTITION is NOT required to use the SETUP program from the diskettes! Booting from the...
Doc Chiron here: I don't know specifically if it will help you, but Executive Software has a program called Diskeeper that is supposed to be terriffic at...
DOC Chiron here: Since the Compaq Diagnostics Partition is essentially FAT12, all the normal rules apply since when it is installed and you hit [F10] during...
Doc chiron here: Fred, that is very sage advice about the extra drive, unfortunately the only place left to install a hard drive would use the location under...
Jose: I guess you forgot to include the link? Doc _________________________________________________________________ Get McAfee virus scanning and cleaning of...
... DOC CHIRON here: WHICH partition manager? Nobody has the right to just say PARTITION MANAGER and get away with it! There are many many many...Whose...
From: "Alan" <g4zfq@...> John, I do not know how the "bios" works when using the diagnostic partition. As they work without one, I have presumed the...
From: "Dave Howe" <DaveHowe@...> Partition Manager [whose?] allows you to redefine the lines [?] that mark where partitions begin and end. DOC: You mean...
From: "Dave Howe" <DaveHowe@...> normally you would remove the current drive and install a new one after formatting and adding the diagnostic partition,...
DOC: NOPE Try Norton Utilities (or Systemworks) Disk Doctor program. If possible USE ranish to COPY the DAMAGED partition intact to another drive before...
From: Annapurni Balan <anubalan@...> Copying all files with the directory structure intact from one disk to another using a free programme "XXCOPY"....
O&O Software has a good defrag software which you can use on a trial basis. There is also a Linux Beta version out. The Pro-version for Windows cost $44.90 to...
From: "kayamboosuresh" <kayamboosuresh@...> Hello folks I am new to this group. I have a HP Pavilion ze5200. It has a pre-installed version of WinXP...
... From: "James M. DeLuca I said> The problem you have could be it is using the extended bios routine ... John was complaining of lengthy bios routine. My...
Hello, Diskeeper Lite is WinXP compatible. WinXP has already a customized version of Diskeeper under license from Executive software (as is with other modules...
Hi Alan, It seems I have found the problem. After a couple of people, I think you were one, suggested that I may have a hardware incompatibility problem, I ...
Hi Doc, Thanks for the information. As it happens the CD drive was causing the hang, that I was hoping installation of the diagnostic partition would help me...
I am trying to uninstall WinXP from my hard drive and reinstall Win2k. I was going to use Part.exe, and just create a dual system, but see from previous posts ...
... Good choice. W2k has stood the tests of both time and the business community. If you can stand the extra bit of time it takes to boot it is well worth the...
Fist, I would like to thank you for your answering my post. I put DOS 6.22 on floppy with Part.exe. Rebooted machine and the "busy" light comes on, but nothing...
... You're very welcome. ... When the floppy light stays on it usually is an indication that the floppy data cable is connected wrong way around i.e. the end...
... light ... the floppy ... go to the ... been like ... No. It came with XP installed and has run ok for a year. I never liked XP and finally decided to...
I went thru the computer manager in XP and deleted the restore portion of the hard drive. It deleted the data and I re-formatted it. It was about 6 or 8 megs....
... That's way too complicated. First of all it would have to be DOS as the partition is so small. Getting DOS to run from D and then to format C to get rid of...
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