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You could try turning on simple sharing in folder options in control panel.

Boot from Bart PE. Insert your pendrive. If it is recognised and mounted you have some virus which will prevent access to removable media as also the internet to prevent removal. What you might need is one of BartPe variations which will connect to the internet, download the latest stinger/live virus removal tool and cure your machine.

You could try expanding these 2 files (sccbase.dll slbcsp.dll) from the installation CD. You will find them as sccbase.dl_ and slbcsp.dl_.

Generally the mobo manufacturers include a floppy disk with the sata drivers on it. If you are doing a fresh install on a fresh harddisk and have youe CD rom connected to an ide port you should get a message asking you to insert your driver floppy. This should load the specific mobo sata driver and then should go ahead wothout problem. I have built a number of WinXP Pro systems with sata drives - without using these driver floppies - with a variety of mobos but never once had problem. What I was wondering is where do you find the "\winxp\viamraid.sys " on the CD? Unless perhaps the Home edition is a different animal.

For future reference use Passware. It can retrieve absolutely any password on the system except .zip & .rar files. These take practically forever to find.

BootITNg will do it. It is not free but a fully functional try before buy shareware.

For my taste Grub as boot manager is flaky. I always use lilo on the hosting partition & never in the MBR. I use Terabyteunlimited's BootIt Ng as my boot & partition manager. I have 6 different installations of windows & at least 9 different flavours of Linux on my system, each one in its own independent primary partition. They all work flawlessly. It also supports booting from all bios supported devices including SATA, CD, USB, Firewire or what have you. The curent version with UDMA support works extremely well. XP images/iso won't create properly with Nero if you have hotfixes on it. (Very long filenames & path) You will need M$ cdimage to do it. You will also need bbie (from Bart) to extract boot file from the CD or use Bart's boot image. Bart also has a utility to create these CD images. What I suggest in your case is to use some kind of partiton manager (partition magic is my choice) & hide all partitions - including the extended one. Leave only the windows partition that you want to repair as visible when booting from CD. You should be able to get to the blue installation screen or be able to boot BartPE booting from from CD. Hope this helps.

There are a couple of boot options in Linux which are supposed to allow you to change the admin password. I have never been able to succesfully use them. There is however one that will allow you to delete the password. The next time you boot into your system it will ask for the admin password. You can simply hit enter & you are logged in as admin. You can then set all the permissions you want. Depending on the version of XP it might ask you to create a fresh new password. Simply do it & you are done.

You have a hardware problem. The drive is not passing on the signal to the OS that the tray has ejected & for tht OS to rescan for presence of a disk.

What I usually do to install these shortcuts & point to the correct applications is to first install the application in its default location on any pc. Create shortcuts where I want them copied on new or re installations. Include these in the CD rom I create under $OEM$ folder & these work just fine. What I would like to know is how do I get All users profile folder installed. I have tried but has never worked. Can you give a pointer or a link?

There is an easier method for updates & hotfixes. Visit the following site. http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/ You will need firefoxinstalled. Works like a charm.

As I understand M$ allows you to make a backup of the media. Would it not be easy enough to customise the winnt.sif file for each pc & then do an unattended install? This should not take more than say 5 minutes but would save you a whole lot of time feeding in the data & from being present in front of the pc when these input requirements come up. You could give away the so created CD to the client & build goodwill as a bonus.

I had the same problem. This has been very clearly indicated on the website also. You will have to change the keyboard setting in the winnt.sif to match the keyboard you are using. Once changed it works just fine. You can further customise winnt.sif by studying the unattended section of this forum.

When I worked with Win98 I had switched from command.com to 4dos.com as my shell. This was through config.sys file. To start GUI I had to either include win in autoexec.bat or type it at the command prompt since the system booted to Command prompt only. If I switched off the pc from the GUI it would land back at the command prompt & then could simply switch off with power switch. 4dos is now free. You could try it out to sort out your problem of booting to a command prompt. Hope this helps.

If that is the case how come it works under XP & not under W2K? To start with the USB HDD system s**cks. There is insufficient bandwidth and resources (under windows) available to do anything useful. Whatever is available is once again shared amongs all the peripherals. All processing is done by the CPU. My experience with a whole variety of USB enclosures has been extremely unsatisfactory. The partitions on the external drive appear & disappear with different drive letters without any input on my part. To top it all these require external power supply ( 5V & 12V). I would not even call it a "poorman's firewire" but a "beggarman's firewire".

Set up the power properties in your bios so that windows can detect the acpi status correctly. The hyberante option will come up automatically. That option works perfectly well even under WinME on machine that is over 3 years old.

If the USB device in question supports booting from it, it would have come with a utility to make it bootable including selecting emulation ( usb : floppy, hdd, cdrom, zip, ls-120 or what ever else your bios might support), the boot image & all the files you want on it. If you do this & manage to boot from it all you have to do is to select the option of copying the installation files to the HDD & you are all set.

I have never had any problems wuth the utility you refer to. In fact it has improved perdormance in many instances. What I have actually done is creted a separate 5 GB partition for the temp & page files. In case of any trouble you can simply format it from a dos boot or a boot manager like BootITNg. XP will recreate what ever it requires & hum along.

Your best bet is Ewido security suite. It has detected & corrected in situations where all else failed especially in the department of spyware.

In the first place you would not see a partial list of PCs on the network if the service had not started. So what is the reason for selective display only? The worst part is that there is no utility which will scan the network & rebuild your list. The funny thing is the PCs that I can access & map by name are not available or do not respond to the ping command nor do they show up in "My Network Places"

I sugegst you create any live XP boot cd based on Bart's PE. Include and apply as many virus/malware detectors as possible. Finally do a scandisk from this bootable disk. Once you have corrected the drive fault you should not have scandisk errors while booting from the HDD.

Before the drive is detected the enclosure must be detected. I have come across a number of situations where USB 1.1 & USB 2.0 compatibility issues arise & you have to disable the Enhanced USB Host adapter in Device Manager. Is the new machine you are connecting the USB drive to fast enough? USB will only allow 10% resources for any thing you might want to do on USB connections. It may a while before the drive is accessed, detected, configured & made available. In fact on an XP machine it may just keep playing hide n seek. USB is an extremely poor cousin to firewire. I had to resort to USB enclosure to access a drive which was not fully supported by the mobo bios. I was miserable with it. Finally I attached it to a machine which supported the size fully. Configured it the way I wanted it. Transferred it back to the original machine. Set the bios for the drive to none. Now I have no problems with it. The individual OSes (Win 2k, XP, Linux) can access the drive properly. Only thing I can't do is access it at intial boot manger/ bios level. I can even access it from WinME + Acronis Mount All utility.

You can try to change the monitor to a default SuperVGA or an XGA which will allow you to change the resolution & refresh rates within limits, but it will certainly be better than your conventional safe mode type 640x480 VGA.

Even the NTFS read only utility takes up so much of memeory it will practically kill your machine. I recently came across a reasonably priced utility to mount NTFS partions in R/W mode under Win98 & ME. It is called MountAll from Acronis. In fact it can also handle Linux partitions. On a 256 mb ME setup the machine just coasts along without any slowing down of the system. Would be worth your while to try it.

First of all you should download 4dos version 7.5 which has now been made free. It is a much more powerful replacement for command.com. How did you manage to format your c: drive since the format command itself is located on c drive & the command will not allow you to format boot drive. If you did it with a floppy or from cd you might have an option to unformat the drive with the same utility. You also have the option of using BartPE & a free utility called PCI-Filerecovery from Convar. You will probably recover 70 to 80% of your files back. If you are in the habit of keeping your disk defragged the recovery rate will be higher.