Re: upgrading to a new hard drive ... > What is the proper procedure to install a new HD without having to do ... > a repair/install and reactivation?... If you format and mark a hard drive and partition as being active with XP, ...booted to that preformatted drive, and it should boot the next time you try ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
Re: Can not format ... Another alternative would be to try the XP Setup boot disks.... I don't know why or how your drive letters got changed but that has little or no effect when in a DOS or NT setup environment, these drive letters are somewhat arbitrary, the active partition only having an effect and being labeled as C by windows, the rest hardly matters. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
Re: Help PLEASE Boot Disk for XP ... > allow to activate the CDROM drives and allow to format ... HDD won't boot so I want to boot off a disk ... Windows XP Setup boot disks are available only by download from Microsoft. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment)
Re: The Microsoft stranglehold on its users.... ...uninstall LILO you had to get a successful boot into Linux and uninstall ... Probably all of the boot managers use ... At least with the DOS boot disks,... (sci.research.careers)
Re: The Microsoft stranglehold on its users.... ... Probably all of the boot managers use ... At least with the DOS boot disks,... something that you pay money for and what you get is at least partly shit ... (sci.research.careers)
