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mehargags

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  1. Nuhi is right..... I could not run nlite while Kaspersky was running. Exited the Kaspersky & now can run nlite simply on my Vista x64 ultimate...
  2. Hi friends, I have 5 partitions on a Terabyte Hard Drive: 1. C: boot partition holding XP MCE 32bit 2. D: Data and software 3. E: Songs and movies 4. G: Games installed 5. V: proposed for Vista, its last partition on the drive Now the problem in detail. I want to dual boot normal 32bit XP Media Centre Edition with Vista x64. But since I cannot run x64 setup from within XP, I have to start the Vista x64 installation from bootable DVD. But when installing from DVD, it re-assigns all drive letters afresh as per their physical occurrence on the Hard Drive. What it will do is: 1. D boot partition holding XP MCE 32bit 2. E: Data and software 3. F: Songs and movies 4. G: Games installed 5. C: Vista x64 installed, last partition on the drive So it tends to assign System partition the Drive letter as C: and as you know the disk management doesn’t allow you to change drive letter of your System as well boot partition which is Partition 1 and 5. So I’m stuck with V: being C: and actual C: being D: in Vista x64. Rest of the partitions can be assigned any Driver letter desired. Is there any way, some answer file, some other workaround so that I can supply partition information to Vista x64 during install time so that it lets me have the drive letters assigned same as XP32bit ?? I’m desperately looking for a solution to this. Thx & Regards
  3. @SpaceSurfer, Thx for the ellaboration.... 1. Yes My ACTIVe partion was partition 1 on which XP resides(resided) & Vista put its bootmgr on that for sure. 2. I did not copy that file while formatting the XP partition, so it was LOST 3. I HAVE re-installed XP now on the ACTIVE partition C:, Tried Vista DVD to repair, it detects the problem with boot options but can not fix it. 4. I have used Vista boot pro before, so w'd give it a try. My only concern is that since it won't be knowing where my Vista is, i'll have to manually give it partition no. where Vista is..
  4. Hi friends, Sorry if its asked b4 but i just found one old thread while searching the board, revealing no confirmed way to my question. Basically I have 3 partitions on my 320gb HDD C: ---> XP D: ---> Data V: ----> Vista Last night my XP died, & I had to reformat my C: so now i can't boot into Vista. I used the VISTA DVD to boot from it & it detect the problem with Boot but doesn't repair it. I was wondering, other than that wizard base repair, is there no recovery console FIXBOOT/FIXMBR like option on vista. Something that u can do "manually"?? or may be I'm missing the proper way. Pls point me on how to just restore Vista bootloader so that i can boot into my Vista safely without fear to loose XP bootloader. Thx
  5. i know most of us have seen, "How to Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive" where u use these commands 1. diskpart 2. select disk 1 3. clean 4. create partition primary 5. select partition 1 6. active 7. format fs=[i][b]fat32[/b][/i] 8. assign 9. exit 10. xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive E:) being a sys admin I always carry my USB hard drive (Transcend Storejet 160gb). Its partitioned as single NTFS & not FAT32 as mentioned in the above code. I can't boot from the USB hard drive even though the bios supports it. I tried FixMBR on the USB hdd but it still din't work. All I get is "NTLdr missing". Is there no way i can use my 2.5" USB hard drive to boot & install Vista from it, just like i'd do from a FlashDrive ?? any pointers pls, im desperate at achieving this. Thx
  6. hi to all, I checked whole lot of google but din't find a solution. I installed Vista on my D:, then since its trial was over I removed Vista using the command <Vista DVD>\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force then Removed two files Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK from C:\ Problem now is i can't delete the installation folders D:\program files, D:\windows from within my XP installation. it says Access Denied. Funny thing is, i booted to a winPE cd & tried deleting still it says Access Denied. I'm yet to try it using a linux bootable but i can't understand why the hell it is so diff. to delete those folders. What the hell of permissions is blocking me. Can the seniors suggest some way out. I can't let 6gb choked on my D:...... thx
  7. Hi, May be this has been asked before but I c'd not spot it. Is it possible to make an unattended install of Vista which can Just ENABLE ADMINISTRATOR & login straight as ADMINISTRATOR without running that OOBE@#$# or whatever "first login" sequence is called. I guess it will save me atleast 10 mins on my home PC where i always need to be logged in as Administrator. another tip i needed, is it possible to disable UAC at install time ? but more importantly, I need my ADMINISTRATOR a/c preactivated during install time. Thx
  8. Hi all, just got a new VAIO, with VISTA HOME BASIC preisntalled. I have experience with VISTA for past 4-5 months now, but the "ultimate" betas only. in which u just login with the First user u make, which is an Admin by default & then enable ADMINISTRATOR from the user control snap-in. But in VISTA HOME BASIC the snap-in doesn't load & says to use user account Icon from control panel. I have tried my whole knowledge & even googled alot but all methods point to the same above way i use for ultimate, but since there is no "USERs & groups" section in the computer management, how am i supposed to enable administrator a/c so i can login. Pls gurus, help me out, I need a clue badly. Thx
  9. Well I know that applet, but if u check there it just lets u associate a filetype with a single player & that too in a dumb "open With" sort of way. If i wanna associate the AVI file with 3 different players with some custom parameters, there is no way to do that. I guess the SP style File type association dialog was literally omitted. Any more suggestions ?
  10. hello to all , just seek some info on WHAT all do u need to do the Automated install of VISTA. Im talking specifically abt the WAIK. on the net sometime before all u had for WAIK was a doc 2.26mb in size but there was no pkg which had the Image manager & other Actuall tools needed. somewhere i read its part of BDD 2007 so i checked that too but c'd not find the tools that the WAIK doc. refers to. today i just spotted http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en & there is a 900mb pkg there to be downloaded. so i just seek confirmation is that the one I'd require ?? Thx
  11. I have been using vista for testing purposes for a month now, & One big quirk i came across is that Microsoft just omitted the File type association Dialog where u can manipulate associations with different programs. I normall Do this for AVIs, MKVs & other media file so as to run them with VLC, Media Player Classic, & some other software. has someone figured out a way to do that ?
  12. Hello everyone may be bumping an old query but is there a workaround available to make M-audio Revo 5.1 work in XP MEdia Centre Edition? the official Drivers aren't compatible but since its VIA envy24 chipset - is some workaround possible? Thx pls
  13. For 8 days Im looking desperately place where u can edit the File types & associate them with ur applications using custom parameters. even googling doesn't yield me much result other than I got this program "File Type Doctor" which has proved useless. I dug some registry & found that vista has a little different way of storing filetype assoc. Anyone who has done it properly. I know this method "In Control Panel Classic View, open Default Programs and then click Associate a file type or protocol with a program." but it doesn't let u manually set anything in text.
  14. ok!! well I was wondering checking/unchecking it will just "remove" it from the tray. I rather w'd like them to be available, atleast the sound icon but w'd like them to he "hidden always". but MS seems to remove that hiding option for sound. anyone with a clue
  15. On my machine, it was nero showtime that made the error popup again n again. Unintalled it & its gone.
  16. YES,,,, It does the JOB. Changes the default in the drops down to SHUT DOWN. Thx for the tip. but no way to change it to button style as in XP?? its much more convenient to just click what u want
  17. I’m using vista past some days, apart for usual nags there one thing much disturbing that i’d like to change. The Shutdown dialog in Vista shows “ Sleep “as default which i never ever do. & i have to manually select either shutdown or Restart. Is there some Registry setting where i can edit this particular order as they appear & make Shutdown as the Default option. I’d rather prefer if u can have XP Button style dialog on Vista anyway. Pls note that I;m talking of the Shutdown dialog box drop down list here & NOT abt “what to do when I press the power button” on my PC as thats the things that comes up when i google for my query.
  18. I'm pretty sure that this is a known problem wth Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition. Every time the system is to Shutdown an 'End Now' dialog titled "Missing Virus Definitions" pops up. I guess its the DefWatch service of SAV that's watching the Virus definition files update. Any Remedy to avoid that End Now dialog. This problem i experience from Past 1 year or so ever since Version 10.x.x. Never had this prob with vs 9.x.x. Someone with a pointer for it ???
  19. I was wondering how one can FORCE XP to use Custom Drive letters when installing it directly from XP bootCD. Lemme explain my query better. I always like to have 2 copies of windows installed. I have 3 SATA hard disks. 400gb + 400gb + 400. First SATA master is the System HDD on which I install all my OS’s. I keep 4 partitions lettered as: C: for Primary OS, 100gb G: All games installed in this & not usual C:\programfiles\xxx, 200gb K: for Alternate install of XP or XP x64 or Windows 2003 server, 50gb V: for Vista, 50gb Second SATA (set to Drive letter D) is a 400gb single partition Containing my Game’s & software Dump’s etc. Third SATA (set to Drive letter E) is 400gb single partition for all my songs & movies dumped. I always like to keep this setup this way. If I wanna dual boot x86 Xpsp2 with a 32bit XP/ XP-MCE or Vista I can preserve those Drive letters since I can start the setup from within primary XP. The problem is say I wanna install x64 XP or x64 Vista, I only can clean install it from a BOOT CD & then it messes up all my Drive letters. I can edit some of the drive letters but the secondary x64 OS takes the 2nd drive letter of First system hard disk as D & I can’t change it anyway as it gets reserved for Booting. But then it’s a really pain to work on the second OS with D being E, E being F, K or V being D etc….. May be I used a lil long convo here to state my query but I think its better to be descriptive at the First shot rather than posting multiple replies later. Now coming back to the quest. Is there a way, using some answer file from Floppy or something else where I can force tell the New secondary OS to use the Drive letter schema of my choice ?? Thx for reading that long, looking forward for the views….
  20. Hi Freinds, I want to make a windows BATCH file that can save Current Date & time inside a TXT file & save the TXT file as somename.txt....... I checked many sites but din't get a clue how to save current DATE & TIME AS a TXT File.. Can u pls do this small code for me?? Im aware of the date & time Variables in batch but dunno how to create a tXT file from them.. Dunno which is the right section for this but this one seemed the most feasible Thx
  21. Can someone pls CONFIRM if the x64 versions on Vista also have the Media Centre in them ? I'm using the 32bit public beta 5384 & the media centre is really good. Just curious- I guess x64 sh'd have exactly the same software set as well. Also can u point out any major software set diff betw x64 & x86 builds? besides the architectural ones. Thx & Regards
  22. ok thx actually 8.3 doesnt have it. Version 9 does. But my badluck. Toshiba guyz are smart enough. They bloody protected it with password. Is there a way to break password on that PQI files ?
  23. Hi Im looking how to extract .PQI file. these PowerQuest Image files which is now owned by symantec Ghost. after much googling around, many sites said ghost package contains "Backup Image Browser" application in which i can open & explore PQI files. I got Ghost 8.3 but the ghost image explorer doesnt open these files..& i have not been able to find any Image Browser application in it. Acutallly I got a toshiba laptop satelllite M-70. I formatted it. The toshiba sites do not provide any device drivers as such, they get u to download a "config free" utility which is an image that installs all drivers. I managed to get all the drivers, except the one's for the CARD READER. The support DVD has this file LDZIW020.PQI 1.2gb in size. Im sure in case i can open this file i'll be able to extract the required drivers. thx
  24. Hi all there, I m new to Exchange 2003 I just downloaded the SP2 to Exchange 2003 server named E3SP2ENG.exe. I just wanted to enquire if its possible to Slipstream the SP2 into the Setup like XP so that all patch up is done during setup itself. Thx
  25. I made some self installing Silent plgs for Certain Appz lilke Rar,ultraiso, & other stuff using Iexpress utility & all of them flawlessly install. Only Glitch i faced is regarding the MSI based setups. For eg:- I wanted to make an auto install for cmdhere.msi. Now i pkgd it with iexpress & in the Install Program field i tried the following ways turnwise:- Cmdhere.msi /quiet this gave me -- Error creating Process<E:\docum~1\abc\local~1\TEMP\IX000.tmp\cmdhere.msi /quiet>. Reason: E:\iwndows\system32\advpack.dll then i tried msiexec.exe /quiet Cmdhere.msi & msiexec.exe /i /quiet Cmdhere.msi %* But all i get is a msg window showing me possible Parameters of msiexec. Can u pls tell me how i can pkg these MSI based Appz so that i can use it in the SVCPACK.inf. No im not making an unattended CD-- i just want these appz to be installed alongside with XP. thx
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