Re: Major Startup Problems
- From: "Ray K" <raykosXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:37:37 -0500
Dave,
Since the previous post, I've struck out on everything I could think of. I
tried making a new set of setup diskettes using my only laptop with a floppy
drive. No luck since that computer uses ME, which makebd32.exe refuses to
work with. Makebe32 appears like it will run under XP - I at least get to
the point where it asks me to insert a floppy - but that laptop doesn't have
a floppy drive. A second older laptop, over my girlfriend's house, uses XP
and may have a floppy. I'll see her this afternoon. Maybe I should buy an
external USB floppy. But even if I could make a set of diskettes, once I
boot I'm still faced with the problem of losing data as I reinstall W2K even
though I'm spared the expense of a replacement drive.
(For the record, I have four laptops, which I use for deejaying: 2 running
XP with working CD burners, but no floppy drives; one retired older one
running ME -I'm using it now - with a floppy drive, but a bad CD-ROM;
another older retired one running XP, CD burner OK, unknown if it has a
floppy drive. My workhorse W2K computer with the problems is a home made
desktop.)
I tried making a bootable CD from a downloaded ISO file
(http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html). It's a collection of
diagnostic programs. My two physical drives pass.
As I reread your post of 2/28, 10:40PM, at one point you mention that I will
have to delete partition(s). That means losing everything in that partition,
including unbacked up data, doesn't it? If so, then I'm forced to a new C
drive. Or maybe I could do something like this.
1. Remove the second drive, so the primary master's partitions will be
assigned C, D and E.
2. Create a new partition on that drive, and designate it as C. Now this
drive has four partitions, with the old C becoming D, D becoming E and E
bcoming F. All the data of importance that once was on C is now preserved on
D.
3. Do a fresh install of W2K, SP4 and the programs. Even with four
partitions, this 80 GB drive has plenty of unused space to do this.
4. Copy the important data from D back into C.
5. Delete the D partition, so the drive once again is back to three
partitions.
6. Reinstall the primary slave drive.
What a nightmare.
Ray
"Ray K" <raykosXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dave,computer
Thanks so much for the guidance. Things are becoming a comedy of errors.
When I stick the first of four setup disks (made two years ago) into the
problem computer, I get a Disk I/O error message. (No other words like
reinsert the disk and try again.) So I can't make a new set on that
because I can't boot properly.one
So I figured I'd make a new set of setup disks using an old laptop (the
I'm.using for these messages). Problem is, even though it has a floppymakebt.32.exe
drive, its CD-ROM doesn't work. No problem, I have two newer laptops.
Needless to say, neither has a floppy drive.
vWith the W2K Pro disk in one of the newer laptops, I can see
and four img files. Is there a way for me to use a USB flash drive byme
copying the four files to it? The bios in the problem computer does allow
to boot from USB-HDD.
While waiting for your reply, I'm investigating something called Ultimate
Boot Disk.
Again, many thanks.
Ray
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