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I love this idea. Have you physically tried this from start to finish successfully? Currently I assume bootloaders must be installed on the first partition. So if I installed XP first partition, it will have XP ntldr bootloader. Then if I install Win7 on 2nd partition, it would put it's new Win7 bootloader into first partition, hence overwriting/updating XP's bootloader. I don't like this... I just installed XP just now and imaged it using DriveImage XML. This is before installed Win7. Then am going to install Win7 and image that. Guess what, Win7's bootloader is in XPs partition now. What if I restore XP partition? I loose Win7 bootloader. What if I restore Win7 in partition 0? It won't have a bootloader. See my dillema?

Your question becomes null and void if you will only set up a second hard drive on your computer. Then you never need to worry about one OS interacting with the another. Hard drives are so cheap any more that trying to cram two OS's into one HD is foolish. With two HD's, each OS has its own private drive and you even have space for a second partition to store misc. stuff, related to each OS. I currently have two versions of XP, Vista, and Windows 7 Ultimate all on the same computer, but on different HD's. The boot menu provided by my MSI motherboard allows me to select which drive I want to boot to. Just a thought! Doc B) Yes I love to install a 2nd HD. But this is a company work PC and I can't justify them buying me another HD. I just have to make do with what I got... one HD.

I would like to install both Windows XP & Windows 7 on the same PC, clean, vanilla, from scratch. Problem is the setup. Should I install XP in the first partition 0, then Win7 in partition 1 afterwards? Will Win7 put some boot files/folders into partition 0 in order for it to work/boot properly? I prefer if Win7 doesn't put boot files into the same partition as XP, since I want to IMAGE the partitions after installation and maybe swap about with XP & some other OS (linux or 98 or something else). Should I create a BOOT partition 0 first then install XP into partition 1 and Win7 into partition 2? If I did this, then I could install my own boot loader (GRUB4DOS) in partition 0... and don't have to worry about Win7 boot files lingering in XP partition etc. How to manage all this? Please advise...

I have Java Runtime 1.4.2 installed on my Windows 98 SE (English). I have a Java app (ZDT) that helps with Chinese flashcards. However it can't display Chinese characters. I've installed the MS Global IME http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/default.mspx/ for Windows 98 and can display Chinese characters in unicode text files. Still can't input them somehow (am supposed to be able to with the MS Global IME). However, ZDT my Java app which displays question marks instead of Chinese characters. Anyway know anything about this and how to fix?

The problem with a floppy backup is the facts that they are incredibly small and incredibly easy to break. Very easy to lose all your data due to a bad sector. HDD may still be magnetic media, however it is allot more robust than floppy and you wont have to have roughly 700 floppies or more for a 1 gig drive. Not sure how large your drive is, but even for a 250 meg drive, thats roughly 170 floppies or more. Lol, I didn't mean putting the backup image to floppy... just boot a linux distro from floppy ... and running some linux imaging program via floppy or even from the HD... and putting the image file to ANOTHER partition on the same HD.

I was hoping for a floppy solution, ie. PartImage on a floppy rebuilt.... but I don't know whether PartImage is small enough for a floppy...

My Libretto laptop 166MHz 64MB has no USB nor CD-ROM drive but it does have floppy disk booting. I like to disk image my C:\ which contains Windows 98 SE however the problem is... most modern disk imaging are cumbersome, requires powerful PC, CD-ROM, etc. So I thought about using linux tools but problem is am not acquinted with linux. Anyway, I found a floppy linux distro (tomsrtbt). Then I found PartImage. Big problem is that most of linux tools must be built. I can't build PartImage on a P1 166MHz, it'll take forever and probably kill this 13 year old CPU. Anyone have any good ideas? Regarding imaging a USB-less CD-ROM-less laptop?

You didn't specify what models.Can you access the Local Network (internal PC's, i.e. your Workstation) with the Libretto? If not, better check with the Network Administrator. Since this is a Company LAN and the Workstation has a "fixed IP" (does it?) then there's a good possibility the Company has a fixed set of "Allow" IP addresses, of which the Libretto is being "blocked" (not in "the list"). NETGEAR MA401 Wireless PC Card 3CCFE574BT 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC Card http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3ccfe574b.htm I actually managed to get LAN working. Now... tricky part is WLAN. Am trying to get it working at home now... on my wireless router from O2.... before I venture out to shops....

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I just bought a Libretto 100CT and installed Windows 98SE on it. It came with a NetGear WLAN card and I bought myself a 3Com LAN card. I downloaded official drivers from NetGear and 3Com's websites for Windows 98. Drivers installed fine and my devices seem okay. Now am having problems trying to connect to the internet via my company LAN. By default, the TCP/IP settings are "obtain IP address automatically". But I guess I try manually set the DNS, gateway and IP myself. I copied the settings from my workstation PC (obviously a different IP, but same DNS and gateway and subnet mask). I still can't access internet on my Libretto. Also the WLAN tool is very basic. Is there a better WLAN tool for NetGear for Windows 98?

Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Model: HP Compaq 6000 Pro SFF PC 4865776C 6574742D 5061636B 617264

Does anyone know a good system for management of installed PC games? I don't have a large hard disk and nowaday games are so big (eg. CoD4 takes 10GB, Oblivion... Fallout 3, and more). I find myself uninstalling games and then reinstalling them again. And then when Windows XP goes slow I have a habit of reformating and clean install Windows XP. This ofcourse leads to long processes of reinstalling games. There's a program called InstallRite that is just a file/registry monitor. I usually monitor the registry after an installation of a game and extract/export the relevant registry key lines. I have external backing storage so whenever I ran out of space I move a big game, etc. Fallout 3 to the backing storage. If something happened to Windows XP and I had to reformat & reinstall then I can just import the registry file of that game, and copy the game folder back into C:\Program Files\, etc. This seems to work for most games. Am curious if there's other better easier ways... How do you do yours?

Am not sure where to go for help/advice/knowledge. I am hoping some people can give some feedback/advice to my queries. We used to have a Vigor DrayTek , on a 4MBit line, and a Windows 2000 Server for web proxy, DHCP & firewall. Everything was fine (web surfing is fine, MSN is fine, Remote Desktop is fine, etc). Until our Windows 2000 Server died and we decided to try letting the router Vigor DrayTek to handle all the DHCP & web proxy. We started getting lots of MSN dropped connections, dropped Remote Desktop connections & slow internet. Every now and then we can't access the internet for a bit (probably due to saturation or bottlenecks). We got a new router Vigor (next model) hoping it would solve dropped connection issues. But it hasn't really. We still get dropped connections from time to time. What is the best/ideal config/setup for a router to prevent/stop these dropped connections for Remote Desktop & MSN? I mean, before when we were using Windows 2000 Server, we never got a drop connection from MSN or Remote Desktop. Now we get it constantly and it's annoying. Is there a Network Monitor tool to diagnose what's going on? On the router should there be a maximum sessions, bandwidth limit, etc?

Hi I have most Dell OEM Vanilla CD's, which one are you after? I think all Dell OEM Vanilla CDs are essentially the same. As long as there's no service pack 1a or 2 or 3 on it. Can you make an ISO (Alcohol 120% is best) for me please that would be very grateful.

Wow, looks like you know your stuff! So all KB6/7/8/9 were for XP? and I could probably guess KB1/2/3/4/5 was for 98, etc?

If one has a bunch of XP hotfix/updates then how can one batch install them all? I downloaded around 100 hotfix/updates using Windows Updates Downloader. Ofcourse, there's about 3 pre-requisite files that needs to be installed first, but then I assume the rest can be installed in any order. I remember there was a really good program (AutoPatcher) which can batch install. But my bunch of files are custom made (vanilla XP updates & SP1a updates... so AutoPatcher wouldn't work unless I know how to program AutoPatcher to work with my custom files?)

Please see top original post since that's been updated with a working Windows XP SP1a Update List. Notes: Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications DirectX (3 other cannot finds in optional) Keeps on being updated (URL broken) so might be better to remove from update list.

Anyone in this thread still have an old Dell OEM XP Vanilla CD?

I have a Dell OEM XP SP1a Royalty CD. It works fine. Am interested in creating a Dell OEM XP Vanilla Royalty CD from MSDN XP Vanilla. Is this possible? I have tried putting my OEM BIOS files into a MSDN XP SP1a and it doesn't work. It only works when placing OEM BIOS files into an old official Dell OEM XP SP1a CD. I have both SP1a & SP2 Dell CDs. However what am looking for is Dell XP Vanilla OEM CD. I haven't purchased Dell PCs too old when Dell shipped out vanilla XP CDs but am sure they did because it took about 2 years before MS released SP1a. Does anyone have an old Dell OEM XP Vanilla CD?