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Re: BIOS? Joshua Nussbaum4-Jul-02 15:56 Joshua Nussbaum 4-Jul-02 15:56  are you sure that bios is configured to boot from hd0? Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar4-Jul-02 16:11 Peter Molnar 4-Jul-02 16:11  I tried every possibility: hdd-0, hdd-1,hdd-2, cd-rom as first boot device, but still system failure... Bunburry Re: BIOS? Joshua Nussbaum4-Jul-02 16:13 Joshua Nussbaum 4-Jul-02 16:13  no, what I'm saying is set up like this boot0: cdrom boot1: hdd0 this way it will boot from cd if a bootable cd is in the drive, and when no bootable cd is present it will boot the os from the hd. Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar4-Jul-02 16:20 Peter Molnar 4-Jul-02 16:20  This is called first, second and third boot device on my system. I also tried first boot - cd-rom second boot - hdd-0 and vice versa with and without inserted cd, but still the same message. Bunburry Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar4-Jul-02 16:33 Peter Molnar 4-Jul-02 16:33  ...and I also know that this configuration works because Win2K was preinstalled by the dealer some hours ago and all OK. I just wanted to have more partitions by reinstalling windows. If only I had known this a little earlier I would have been satisfied with one... Bunburry Re: BIOS? Venet5-Jul-02 1:29 Venet 5-Jul-02 1:29  Bunburry wrote: I just wanted to have more partitions by reinstalling windows. How many partitions do you have ? Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: BIOS? Brian Delahunty5-Jul-02 2:30 Brian Delahunty 5-Jul-02 2:30  Venet wrote: How many partitions do you have ? Your obsessed with partitions. We'll have to have a look at that. Hey. Can you come down to my flat tomorrow night for Robson's 21st??? For a few drinks anyway??? "When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks] "It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9 Re: BIOS? Venet5-Jul-02 4:37 Venet 5-Jul-02 4:37  Brian Delahunty wrote: Can you come down to my flat tomorrow night for Robson's 21st??? Was out last night with the college crowd. Today in bits, room is fu**ing spining, and me trying to create a presentation. Nasty I have lots of work to do, but do say hi to Robson. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar5-Jul-02 3:40 Peter Molnar 5-Jul-02 3:40  First I installed 3 but when I saw the problems I deleted them and returned to 1. Without any effect. BTW: I am abstinent... Bunburry Re: BIOS? Roger Wright5-Jul-02 4:23 Roger Wright 5-Jul-02 4:23  Bunburry wrote: BTW: I am abstinent... There's your problem! Before I could bring myself to install Win2K Beta3 I had to get roaring drunk. It worked perfectly! The latest machine (Win2K SP2) I installed cold sober, and have had no end of troubles There are three types of people in the world: Those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; those who wonder what happened. Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar5-Jul-02 4:38 Peter Molnar 5-Jul-02 4:38  ...and those who wonder why that happened Bunburry Re: BIOS? Venet5-Jul-02 4:44 Venet 5-Jul-02 4:44  Bunburry wrote: BTW: I am abstinent... Whatever that is. Anyway, at first I thought you might be installing Windows on secondary partition, and some versions of windows need to be installed in primary partition. But AFAIK this is true for Win95/98 only. My suggestion would be: Get a Win95/98 startup disk. Use fdisk utilty to delete all partitions, format them all and try to reinstall Win2k. You might want to try to use "fdisk /mbr" as well which will restore Master Boot Record. Apart from this I have no idea. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: BIOS? Fred dB.17-Jul-02 1:30 Fred dB. 17-Jul-02 1:30  Are u sure that your hd partition is primary and then the flag is set to active? Fred Senior developer - C++/MFC/SQL Radius for Windows NT 3-Jul-02 18:57 3-Jul-02 18:57  I need to have information on Radius for Windows NT.(Remote Dialup authentication User Service).Any idea then do let me know I wannt authenticate the users from any DB on the authentication server.I need help on this Windows XP has done it again... Nnamdi Onyeyiri2-Jul-02 11:08 Nnamdi Onyeyiri 2-Jul-02 11:08  For the second time, my user profile has corrupted, the first time it was unrecoverable, so i moved over and started using the administrator account. now thats fcuked up! I tried loggging out and in twice, but it did not work, so i tried restarting, and it has not worked, im gonna run system restore, and see if that works. Just incase it doesn't, (which it probably won't) does anyone know Bill Gates' home address? I want to pay him a little visit and i will not take any responsibility for my actions. I think we should lock Bill in a room with a computer, and force him to use the publicly released version of his companies software, the buggy ones, instead of the fixed ones he probably uses himself. DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!!! Email: theeclypse@hotmail.com   URL: http://www.onyeyiri.co.uk "What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator" Re: Windows XP has done it again... Daniel Turini2-Jul-02 22:55 Daniel Turini 2-Jul-02 22:55  I had this problem before... It was a hardware problem, both my memory and my video card were erratic and I've lost the count XP corrupted my registry. Since I changed my video card and my memory I never had a single problem. Concussus surgo. When struck I rise. Re: Windows XP has done it again... Nnamdi Onyeyiri2-Jul-02 23:34 Nnamdi Onyeyiri 2-Jul-02 23:34  great, now i gotta change my memory too. Email: theeclypse@hotmail.com   URL: http://www.onyeyiri.co.uk "What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator" SMTP Service Philip Patrick1-Jul-02 9:46 Philip Patrick 1-Jul-02 9:46  Who can help me with SMTP Service on W2k Pro? I mean, what are the requirements, how to configure it. So far looks like specifying my provider's server doesn't working Actually all I need is to be able to send mail from my home computer from withing ASP and can't get it working. Any help, links, please Philip Patrick Web-site: www.stpworks.com "Two beer or not two beer?" Shakesbeer Modified:Changed from SNTP to SMTP Re: SNTP Service Venet2-Jul-02 2:10 Venet 2-Jul-02 2:10  Hi, First of all you must be thinking about SMTP service (note M). There is no such service that is part of Win2k, but SMTP protocol is very straight forward. Sorry I don't know much about ASP, however here is a list of smtp commands: Connect to your ISP mail server on port 25. execute the following commands: MAIL FROM: email@domain.com RCPT TO: recipient@domain.com DATA email message . QUIT Remeber a "." before QUIT is needed so that your e-mail will be accepted for delivery and each time a command is entered a CR/LF (done by pressing enter key) will need to be send to the SMTP server. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: SNTP Service [James Pullicino]2-Jul-02 3:22 [James Pullicino] 2-Jul-02 3:22  Venet wrote: There is no such service that is part of Win2k, but SMTP protocol is very straight forward. Sorry I don't know much about ASP, however here is a list of smtp commands: Yes there is. Its the IIS SMTP Service. Comes with Win2k. Drinking In The Sun Forgot Password? Re: SNTP Service Philip Patrick2-Jul-02 4:47 Philip Patrick 2-Jul-02 4:47  Yeah, I meant SMTP, sorry There is such service as a part of IIS on Win2k, and I'm tryng to send e-mail using CDO library, but whatever I do, it fails Anyway, thanx I'll try to do it as you suggested too Philip Patrick Web-site: www.stpworks.com "Two beer or not two beer?" Shakesbeer w2000 task-bar 30-Jun-02 21:43 30-Jun-02 21:43  hi what do you do with unfunctional w2000 actual-program switching by clicking into taskbar to program's rectangle? alt-tab works quite fine but mouse click - with debugger running - does not, it just "selected it" into task-bar but that's all repeatable with more machines good old nt4 t! Installing a new Hard drive 30-Jun-02 2:18 30-Jun-02 2:18  Hi all, Sorry in advance if the question doesn't belong to this mailing list. I have two machines, one with winXP P4, 20 GB HD and the other with winME P3, 20 GB HD. I want to add one more hard disk 40 GB to both machines. Now my question is how to do this? Further, all my programs including OS reside on "C:" (20 GB) what I want is to make the new hard disk with 40 GB as "C:" and move all files and program residing on old "C:" to new one with 40 GB. How to achive this? Any help in this regard will be appreciated. thanks in advance regards /rsasalm Re: Installing a new Hard drive Giles30-Jun-02 3:40 Giles 30-Jun-02 3:40  Do you have a home Network, if so then it will make things much easier, as you can use one machine as a temporary file server to store all you data. Generally you will want to install the new disk as the system drive as newer drives are normally faster. As for moving your programs over, you will on the whole (Paint Shop Pro does not seem to mind) not be able to just copy and paste the programs from the old to the new drive because of all the application settings and dll/com registrations in the registry not being on the new install. Personnally, copy all your data e.g. My Documents, IE favorites etc and do a clean reinstall of the system. You may find it useful to backup your NT account folder as well, not that you will be able to copy this back, but just that there may be some useful files that store personal data of some sort. e.g. Outlook Email Databases. If this not an option, then some kind of system backup restor utility like partition magic should be able to help out, but backing up your entire c drive as a single image, but you will need a few blank CD's from what I can tell. Finally you are going to have to think about the jumper setting on the drives setting a slave/master config. Most manufacturers will tell you how on their support sites e.g. here [New Window]. Re: Installing a new Hard drive Mike Nordell30-Jun-02 3:57 Mike Nordell 30-Jun-02 3:57  Let's call your current installation partition of the OS A, the "rescue" one B, and the one you finally want to become your boot partition C (note that in MS terminlogy "boot" and "system" is so mixed up you might get ideas of where crack was first invented). Install the new HD. Partition and format it to your hearts delight. Install another XP as "rescue" on its own partition. Make the smallest installation you can. This is B. Reboot, starting your newly installed "rescue" OS B. This is needed since the original OS (A) keeps some of its vital files locked down so hard you can't even copy them. Copy only the files in the root directory from A to C (on the new drive, and make sure it's a "primary" partition and that it's made Active) first. This might not be needed anymore, but it can't hurt (to place the system vital files in the beginning of the partition). Copy all the other stuff from A to C (everything but the root-dir that is already copied). Posibly fiddle with your boot.ini on the new-"C:"-to-be if you changed partition-order or something. Shut down. Don't remove any partitions yet! Switch the drives so the 40GB takes the place of the old drive (switch master/slave and/or swithing cable, depending on how you did it). Make sure your computers BIOS recongnize the "new" (40GB) drive as the first drive. Boot. At this point you _should_ be running your old OS installation, but off the new drive. You however have to verify this yourself (by whatever means you can come to think of - different filesystem labels is usually enough). Now, when you have verified that your "old" OS boots from the new drive, shut down, remove the old drive and once again verify that everything boots up as expected. Once this is done, reinsert the old drive, start up again, remove that old partition from the old drive and do what it whatever you like.

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