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Try these: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;287497 http://www.slipstick.com/problems/scanpst.htm http://www.sitedeveloper.ws/tutorials/outlook.htm http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-5054599.html also check these ($): http://www.mailnavigator.com/reading_ms_ou..._pst_files.html http://www.recover-my-email.com/ jaclaz

The above is just a pre-assumption that isn't true anymore on newer machines with lots of memory and was never proved to be accurate on elder one. Have a read here: http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm @Sh4dow Do you have just one partition on more than one on those machines? (If more than one, did you gave the correct partition?) If you have another spare HD, can you try to hook it up on one of the machines and try making the pagefile on this second one? jaclaz

Why don't you just READ this post of mine, linked above: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=33030 and links? To boot an NT OS (NT/2k/XP/2003) you need to have these files: NTLDR BOOT.INI NTDETECT.COM (and NTBOOTDD.SYS if machine has SCSI/SATA hard disks) on the FIRST ACTIVE PARTITION of the FIRST DRIVE (boot drive). The operating system can be installed (generally in /WINNT for NT/W2K and in /WINDOWS for XP/2003) in ANY PARTITION on ANY DRIVE, even in a LOGICAL VOLUME inside an EXTENDED partition. In your case (I am assuming that you have a single primary Active partition, that will get letter "C" on the 80GB drive and a single active primary partition on the 3 GB one, that will get letter "D") : 1) Boot from the win2k CD 2) Install Win2k onto D:\WINNT 3) Boot from the WINXP CD 4) Install XP on C:\WINDOWS DONE! You will have two choices at boot time, Windows XP or Windows 2000. If you have more than these partitions things are a bit more complicated but still easy doable. Please READ these also: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25127 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=35329 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=33964 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=23484 jaclaz

Read this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=226081 and related links. jaclaz

Have a look at this recent comparative test results: http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=69&mnu=69 jaclaz

Have a look here: http://lfntools.sourceforge.net/ http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/doslfn/ http://www.sylpher.com/dosuser/dosutils.htm http://dos32a.sourceforge.net/ http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/en/hs...re/what_lfn.htm http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/freew.html jaclaz

engjcowi Please READ the previous posts before re-adding same info, already posted by other people. Besides, if you were trying to help Sonarcade, he needed help to boot from an USB hard drive, NOT an USB stick. jaclaz

There is NO problem in dual-booting 2k and XP. The correct order is 2k first, XP second, as a rule of thumb, always install Operating System in the order they were released. If you did it the other way round, you just need to copy on the root of first active partition the files NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from XP. Have a look at this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43748 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=33030 jaclaz

Read this: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=183603 http://forums.techarena.in/archive/index.php/t-12475.html http://members.cox.net/scotterpops/text/regback.txt jaclaz

Which version of Excel is it? Is it part of office 2003? Versions "should" be the following: 8.0 for Office 97 9.0 for Office 2000 10.0 for Office XP 11.0 for Office 2003 What exact error does it give? Look at these: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...02-DE3BB768148F http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=324516 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=296931 Also you need an updated Internet Explorer, but not "TOO" updated, read here: http://discussions.virtualdr.com/showthread.php?t=121879 jaclaz

Well, you should make sure to search on all the forum, this was first result (after the stickies): http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=44890 Where there is a link to dirms and buzzsaw. jaclaz

@Sonarcade You do not need a floppy drive. If you have an external USB drive, you can use the "normal" Disk management" to partition it and format it. If you format the partition as Primary from within windows (2k/XP) it will be already bootable for NT based systems (will look for NTLDR). If you want to have it run another system, like Win9x/ME, you need to format it as FAT16, then use BOOTPART to recreate the bootsector and copy to the root the system files. Could you post some more details on what you wsh to accomplish? jaclaz

What you can do is to make an NTFS compressed volume image and mount it with the VDK. See here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=26216 Of course this cannot be bootable. See also this: http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10109 Things are still on the way about the pseudo-GUI for this purpose but command line and some of the example batches give the idea. jaclaz

Have a look here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=15970 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=10792 (and please, always search on the board before posting) jaclaz

Read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=30998 jaclaz

Just to keep information consistent, here is a similarly realted thread, where I posted a link to my small tutorial on how to make USB bootable. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=26612&st=70 Paulo, I see this is your first post, welcome on the board, but take your time looking around and searching before posting (that link has already been posted many, many times) jaclaz

The explanation is correct, the only prob is that CDIMAGE is "for internal use only". There are some other tools that can make the "optimized" ISO, see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=39994 jaclaz

Well, I see you are at your 1st post, you could start SEARCHING the forums. (and post in the PROPER forum, which in this case is "Application Installs") Here are some related results: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=16709 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=36580 jaclaz

Have a look at this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=44653&hl= (for shell drive or directory) and this: for the send to folder http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/s.../ferguson1.mspx If you want the object you send to the .cmd to be an argument to it, you need, assumed your batch files is called "mycmd.cmd" set the entry to the shortcut as "mycmd.cmd %1" Have a look here too: http://www.petri.co.il/add_command_prompt_...ws_explorer.htm jaclaz

The only backing I have is that the ONLY problems in flashing BIOS I ever knew/read of derive from people who used Windows based software to flash BIOSses.(apart from catastrophic issues of power shortages/surges WHILE flashing BIOS) These could be of course due to either: a ) badly written Windows programs b ) the fact hat probably less experienced users prefer to use the Windows GUI To the above info I summed up point #2 in my previous post, and the good ol' saying: "If ain't broken DO NOT fix it" (and this could be my third cent, DO NOT flash BIOS unless it is needed) jaclaz

My two cents: 1) Though now it is quite common to find Windows utilities to flash the BIOS, it is evidently safer doing it from a non-multitasking non-network connected single user OS as DOS 2) Why would the two main BIOS manufacturers have a DOS program to flash their BIOSes? jaclaz

Win32 is NOT Win9x/ME. VMM32.VXD is present in win 9x/ME, not in NT/2K/XP. It is an "assembly" of device drivers, it does not do anything but that. Read here: http://www.easydesksoftware.com/news/news10.htm http://www.helpwithwindows.com/techfiles/vmm32.html jaclaz

Read these: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/Articl...3596/13596.html http://www.tcmagazine.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=959 Here is an example for the DOS prompt here: http://windows.about.com/od/tipsarchive/l/bltip177.htm And another way that uses .inf files: [version] signature="$CHICAGO$" [DefaultInstall] AddReg = DosHere.Reg [DosHere.Reg] HKCR,Directory\Shell\DosHere,,,"%DosHereAccel%" HKCR,Directory\Shell\DosHere\command,,,"%11%\cmd.exe /k cd "%1"" HKCR,Drive\Shell\DosHere,,,"%DosHereAccel%" HKCR,Drive\Shell\DosHere\command,,,"%11%\cmd.exe /k cd "%1"" [Strings] DosHereAccel="DOS &Prompt Here" Copy and paste the above in notepad and save it as Doshere.inf jaclaz

Have a look here: http://www.ss64.com/nt/copy.html As a general rule, unless you do need to change the name of the file, the destination path is sufficient: copy D:\Batfil~1\defrag.bat C:\WINDOWS\STARTM~1\Programs\StartUp try this: CD C:\WINDOWS\STARTM~1\Programs\StartUp copy D:\Batfil~1\defrag.bat The first line changes directory to the destination. The second one copies to the current dir the file. It could be some problem with the 8.3 naming, the above should help in troubleshooting. jaclaz

Yes, you need to overwrite (AFTER having made a BACKUP, and IF you are sure you have an alternative way to boot the machine), the following two files: NTDETECT.COM NTLDR (you can get them from any already installed XP, and, if I recall correctly they are even between the files in SP2) I have read some reports that the files must be in the SAME language than the original install, but I cannot confirm it, italian and english mix well, cannot say for other languages. See my post here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=33030 for more info on the NT/2k/XP boot process. jaclaz