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If I'm interpreting what you say correctly I should install under Win98 to the FAT32 partition on my secondary IDE and then set up a Boot Magic floppy? As Win98 can't see any of my NTFS partitions I was concerned that Boot Magic (installed under Win98) might suffer from the same problem. Alan

I have the upgrade version of XP but as far as I know it will not install a boot menu option. I have triple-booted WinXP/98/Mandrake Linux with LILO but of course this also requires the installation of Linux. Alan

Hi all, I have Windows XP on my primary IDE drive (NTFS partition) and Windows 98 on my secondary IDE drive (FAT32 partition). I would like to use 'Boot Magic' to be able to chose either system on start-up. According to the manual Boot Magic will only install to a FAT/FAT 32 partition and...

I have just replaced the PSU as I suspected voltage fluctuations were the cause of the problem but it is still there! My latest theory is that there may be a dry joint somewhere in the system. When the PC is cold the contact is open and it won't boot. But after running the machine for a...

Thanks Reg, I have Win98 on a single partition on IDE1 (D:) whereas WinXP is on IDE0 (C:) - so should the line to add to boot.ini be..... multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\="Windows 98" If I clone my WinXP partition before doing anything will I be able to return the system to how is...

The OS is Win98se and was only installed about 3 weeks ago. There is minimal stuff on the machine. As the problem occurs before Windows is booted it could not be the win.ini file. The config.sys and autoexec.bat files only have the minimum entries - as left by the Win98se installation programme...

I am getting peculiar start-up problems which results in my PC often (but not always) refusing to boot into Windows when it is first switched on. Usually the problem occurs after the machine is switched off overnight and is then switched back on again the next day. The POST is okay and all...

Thanks for the info. XP is on Drive C and Win98 on Drive D. (when in XP) XP is on a NTFS partition. When I boot into Win98 it assigns 'C' to the secondary IDE. I thought that XP would have no problem booting Win98 provided you tell it where Win98 is. I will certainly try Bootpart...

Hi, I have WinXP pro on the primary IDE hard drive and Win98 on the secondary IDE hard drive. At present both systems operate independently and to get into Win98 I have to set the BIOS to boot from IDE1. This situation came about because when I installed WinXP (upgrade version) I removed...

Thanks for the info. I tried the two commands after disabling all memory-resident programs and the system file check ran through with no reports of any problem. I then rebooted the system and after disabling all other programs tried SFC / SCANNOW on it's own - with the same result...

Hi, I have XP Pro with SP1 installed. As I have not downloaded any updates for some time I visited the MS update site this morning and after it analysed my system I was told there were some 21 security updates available. I selected most of them and started the download which proceeded to it's...

Thanks! I have set the password to 90 days. Alan

Hi, I use XP on a stand-alone PC at home. Every month I get the usual nagging messages about changing my password which is annoying as I don't need to change it that often! Is there a way to get XP to only ask me to change my password say once every 3 months? Thanks, Alan

Thanks for the help. I will install the spell-checker. Alan

Hi, I am using XP/SP1 with IE6 and Outlook Express 6 and have a problem with each that I would like to sort out. IE6 : when I click on a web page link in an email IE6 is launched but then nothing else happens. I just sit there looking at a blank page. And before you ask I am online! The...