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There is something called TCPOptimizer, but I think it was from Speedguide also. I once solved a speed problem with it on 98. And I admit I haven't read the entire thread .

I'd say it's a good occasion to make yourself a "Bart PE" disk.

oops,... apparently it is not that simple. Maybe first try it on a test disk. The first thing to do is to write down on a paper where your partitions start and stop (cylinder, head and sector). Once you've wiped the MBR, you have to rewrite it and to recreate your partitions without formatting else you lose your data for good. I can't try it myself right now as I have boot manager in my mbr and it racts differently. And there is nothing to gain from it. Wiping the MBR is not deleting it. I mean you don't regain any disk space, as already stated by McTavish. It is playing with fire, big risk, small reward. And it's got nothing to do with this forum. Edited... I just tried, this is not for the faint harted. Also no warranty by me (multiboot or XP not starting). Wanna wipe it ? -> Wipe the MBR with "E" (erase), rewrite it as Standard IPL, and press F2 (get "partition was written" message), go stand on each partition and press F2. Reboot and you'll see ...no difference at all.

You can do that with Ranish Partition Manager, it takes 2 seconds. Again, you better know what you doing before you begin. Boot with a dos disk, start Ranish, switch HDDs with F5 if you have more, use "E" on the MBR to erase it then rewrite the partition table before you save and leave. It won't change your life though.

wow, what do you mean ??? ...upgrading to SP2, seems to crash, starts to crash, crash while formatting, ... ??? Are the 2 computers of the same model ? If not, you are not going to get his HD to run your computer. You had better left it in the 1st one and attempt to repair. At least give more info than the fact "it seems to crash".

Yes, try to uninstall keyboard and mouse in the Device Manager, they should come back autimatically, hopefully properly detected.

You would lose your partitions (D and E) on those drives well. And again, why do you want to do that ?

Ah, there it is. I missed it. My apologies. and "USP5.2 " was the first hint.

Or run "dxdiag" and check the 2nd tab.

-Put CD in drive when ME asks for it: 1 minute. -Doubting, searching the net, downloading, trying 98 drivers, stating it doesn't work, registering to MSFN, posting for help, waiting for reply: 24h ?

hum... http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickrefyr.htm#1993

I sense the answer here. What do you mean "usually" ?

Have you checked the "Advanced" tab of the new connection ? It could also be the firewall settings.

Most computers from 2003 can boot USB so it would have surprised me.

Maybe also Outlook Express and its ability to not "show potentialy harmfull attachments"

There's an addon on this forum to (DX9.c december 06)

No apology needed. It's just that you were coming with what seemed as a "russian doll" question.

This is part of IE, that you removed. Either you can live without it or you plan to reinstall IE6 instead and you'll have that (C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch) work again.

This is getting more and more ridiculous. Since when do people decide what someone else's question "would have to be" ? exactly. ... so then why post ?

... that means this is nLite forum and if you can't make a dead normal XP install disk (no tweaking, slipstreaming etc) starting from what you got, there's no point bringing the discussion on nLite's ground.

Depends on the type of image. Try first without nLite (using only the i386 folder if there is any).

After you get the view you want, you need to "Apply to all folders" (menu Tools / Folders Options / View), close and reopen Explorer.

"as my Windows XP drive"...You want to have XP on 2003 machine's drive and have an other computer run from that drive ? (I don't get it) Local is local.

I don't get why you make it so complicated and not a dead simple multiboot with 2 or 3 partitions. Either you have your reasons or you haven't figured out an easier solution yet. I'd make a bootable dos disk (CD or floppy depending on your laptop's hardware), and use part244.exe from "Ranish Partition Manager" on it. It's fairly easy to use. It would alow you to create 2 primary partitions (~1,3 Gig or more for each OS) and the rest for a data partition (but keep the last cylinder for a "boot manager"). Then you install the 1st OS (or copy the files or the partition from your desktop) then make the 2nd partition active, then install the 2nd os, then using Ranish again to install the dual boot; change the MBR to "Boot Manager" and the Interface to "text", and there you go. And it's free. Don't hesitate to ask if I put you in a mess, I'll feel responsible. Ranish can even resize your FAT32 partition.

WOW... what a forum ! Or he could have been waiting for august 1981 and IBM to invent the PC at first. Then wait for the portable. This guy obviously also was first to get one: