Posts by Dortz

It's because your MBR isn't clean. go ahead and load your xp disk in recovery mode, and use the 'fixmbr' command at the prompt. this will reformat the master boot record, and with a clean install of xp or win2k, you should be fine.

also, it 'might' be the case that your win2k disk comes with a program called 'fdisk' on it. if it does, you should be able to do the same with it, and from the command prompt, type:
"fdisk /mbr" minus the quotes.
This will do the same that 'fixmbr' does. just rewrites the master boot record.

what happened here, is that windows operates on its own bootloader, not a system-wide bootloader. linux does the latter. (grub or lilo traditionally) removing linux smashed your boot partition, but the mbr is still written to direct to that partition. wiping it forces the system to default to the first bootable partition, which will be windows.

I'm thinking you re-partitioned part of your drive to get the second operating system on there. first, start a reinstall. then, when you get to the partition options page, remove all the extra partitions. your original installation of windows will be on the top partition (unless you have one that was a recovery partition, or you have a specific boot partition. they will be labled anyway if that is the case) after deleting that, see if you have an option to join the partitions, and add all the empty space onto your old windows installation. if not, just make a 'new' partition, and leave it. windows will format it the next time you restart as a secondary drive. at this point, cancel the reinstallation, and restart your computer. that will have wiped out the second installation. if the boot option menu comes up still, try what kb.net said, but be VERY CAREFUL. if you delete the wrong line, your computer will not boot!

also, as noone has said it yet, and it's always worth saying, be absolutely sure that your microphone is plugged securly in the correct jack. (The one with the little microphone symbol next to it.)

I know it sounds like a silly reason for it to be not working, but I have answered countless calls from very smart people, who have had dumb moments and just forgot to plug something in.

you need to set it up as the actual partition, not the drive letter that windows recognizes it as.

this page should help you out: http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/dualboot.htm

try www.ati.com for the driver you need. double check to find out what model your graphics card is, and download it from the site. burn it to a cd or put it on a USB thumb drive, then start your computer up in safe mode.

uninstall the bad display driver, then restart in safemode again.

install the driver you downloaded, and then try to restart and boot regularly.

that's just the standard instructions for updating your display drivers. I hope that solves your problem

I posted this along with a full alternate method in this thread: http://wRww.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread32495.html

but as far as everybody's problems: if you attempt to re-compile your original explorer.exe, you run the risk of messing everything up. the best thing to do, is when you open explorer.exe in your editor program, save it immediatly under a different name.

make absolutely sure that this file is stored in the windows directory, and also be sure that you type the correct filename when you edit the registry. either of these things will result in the file not being found. not having explorer.exe will usually be a 'BAD' thing.

hope this helps your problems guys.

I couldn't find anything specific. remove the BHO's that you don't use (they are the installed toolbars that IE uses. and i see that you have Norton antivirus, and AVG antivirus. usually when you have two virus scanners, they don't play well with each other. My only actual experience here is between norton and macafee. remove one of your virusscan softwares and update and scan with the other. also make sure you have an updated adware scanner to check for spyware.

if you want to do this so that they cannot be accessed 'AFTER' you have visited them, you can clear your browsers cache and history. these are the records and actual information from the places you've been recently. in firefox, you can do this from 'tools' 'options' 'security' and there will be 'clear' buttons next to everything. i'm honestly not sure you can permanently delete ANYTHING with internet explorer.

I am sorry, but I do not understand what you typed.

It would help very much if you could write more, or try to word your question differently.