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Hi,
After installing Windows XP Pro, After activation of the software it works for about two days and then the error message appears -- NTLDR Missing Please Press Ctrl Alt Delete to restart your computer.
Has anyone seen this before ??
Thanks
Tony
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2TallTony wrote:
Has anyone seen this before ??
Yes, basically something/someone has deleted the NT Loader (Actually thats a guess, but it makes sense so it should be right) The only way I've seen around it is to reinstall.
Matt Newman
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My sister did this recently on her home computer, and she's an MS Exchange support tech...
Floppy disks formatted with Windows 98 and later (IIRC) report 'Boot: Missing NTLDR' if they haven't got system support files on.
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2TallTony wrote:
Has anyone seen this before ??
My scenario was.... I had the PC with 2000, XP (i had problems in both), when I try to boot my PC, with a floppy inside the floppy drive, this message comes. Just remove the floppy and then continue booting, it works fine.
- This may not be a solution or a fix to a problem, but was just trying to eliminate the 'worst case' option I faced...
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Well, I found what the problem was, I created the partition using a Win98 boot disk through FDISK, I guess when this is done the OS gets a little confused between FAT32 and NTFS file system format. The problem was taken care of by booting from the CD and formatting with the util built into the WinXP build. Thanks All for your helpful replies.
Tony
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Hi,,
I use Win2000 Adv. Server (trial version)
each time windows starts I get a message box like :
One or more services could not run .. check Event viewer..
how can i prevent this message from appearing ? (even without fixing the problem that causes it)
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simply disable the offending service in the Services MMC.
Hope this helps ...
Chris
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I am trying to install MSMQ on Windows Server 2003 (via Add Windows Components, in Add/Remove Programs) and I get the following error:
Message Queuing failed to bind to port 1801. The port may already be bound to another process. Make sure that the port is free and try to start Message Queuing again. If this problem arises during setup, you must free the port and run setup again.
Any idea? Btw, it runs via VMWare and the host OS does not have MSMQ installed either.
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Hi all,
I want to know the equivalent of "msgina.dll" in windows 98?
I know that this file manage all user's login process in WinNT,WinXP,Win2000.
Best Regards.
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Hello, Im considering completely reinstalling windows on my machine. I have the upgrade version of windows XP professional. Is there an option to completely reformat and reinstall the upgrade version, or do I have to find/reinstall the older version first ( windows 98 uck...). Also, I have 3 hard drives- will it just reformat the c: drive or all of them. Any words of advice before I byte the bullet?
thanks
steve
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Don't take this at 100% truth but I think you can install clean if you have the 98 CD where you just need to insert it and verify that you have it. Okay yep thats it, I found this on the web...
Boot to the CD-ROM drive, if your computer will boot to the CD-ROM drive (make it the first boot device and try). It will boot to Setup. If a previous version of Windows is not on the hard disk drive, it will ask you to insert a CD from qualifying version of Windows to verify before continuing the installation. I don’t know if your previous version of Windows will work. I have heard that Windows 95 cannot be upgraded to Windows XP; however, the qualifying products listed when I did it (several times) were:
“Please insert your Windows NT 3.51 Workstation, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium CD into your CD-ROM drive.”
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The upgrade version doesn't mean you have to install it over another OS. It just means you have to have the media for another OS, to verify that you own it (or at least borrowed it from someone  ). The installer will ask for the CD at some point.
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Michael Dunn wrote:
to verify that you own it (or at least borrowed it from someone )
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All you have to do is boot off the XP CD and it will check for a previous version before you get a chance to format. After it checks the install goes on like normal. It will also work if you have a valid windows CD (oem restore cds don't work)
Matt Newman
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Like all my friends tell me, before you make any major changes, Backup EVERYTHING. But in this case you should make an image of you machine before you start.
Best of luck, operating system overhalls are not for the faint of heart.
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I have a friend that is trying to allow access to resouces to his XP Pro box. However for some reason whenever someone tries connecting to his computer the username box is greyed out and in it is \\LIGHT\Guest (LIGHT is the computer netbios name) Has anyone seen this before and/or know how to fix this. I have gone through the local security settings and found nothing out of the ordinary. Its a fairly fresh install (latest updates around the board) and some software installed. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Matt Newman
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Has he got that stupid simplified sharing enabled, the one that installs by default? I ran into that on the first XP network I built. Unless you disable that crud and create local user accounts and passwords on each machine, all access to shares is done using the Guest account. Since the account is usually disabled, this rarely works.
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Roger Wright wrote:
Has he got that stupid simplified sharing enabled, the one that installs by default? I ran into that on the first XP network I built. Unless you disable that crud and create local user accounts and passwords on each machine, all access to shares is done using the Guest account. Since the account is usually disabled, this rarely works.
Probably as it was a fresh install of windows. Hes in a class right now, I'll check with him when he gets back.
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Whoa, that ruled! What function key do I gotta press to get that to happen again?" - Strong Bad
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Hi, need help!!
Does anybody know how to grab the data stream that goes to
the graphics card from windows and then on to a projector for example, or even how this works????
I presume that the data stream is going to come from the
windows desktop through win32.
Any ideas or links greatly appreciated!!
Cheers,
/Shane.
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Do you mean between windows and the driver or between the driver and the actually physical system? Working between windows and the driver shouldn't betoo difficult, but working driver level would probably be pretty complex. A better question is what are you using it for?.
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Whoa, that ruled! What function key do I gotta press to get that to happen again?" - Strong Bad
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Thanks for responding guys,
I mean between windows and the driver, basically instead of the data stream going to a graphics card on the same PC I want to stream it to another PC where it goes through the graphics card on that PC and then on to a projector.
The application I'm trying to do this with is PowerPoint so even if I can get the data stream that is going to windows from PowerPoint it may help me.
Maybe this is impossible, if so any ideas why it can't be done??
Cheers
/Shane.
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This seems theoretically possible, but PowerPoint may have some sort of an api (albiet probably undocumented) I'll do some checking between classes and give you an update on what I've found.
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Whoa, that ruled! What function key do I gotta press to get that to happen again?" - Strong Bad
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Thanks Matt,
Any help at all would be great or even just point me in the right direction. Done alot of searching on this and not much success.
/Shane.
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After a day of unbelievable crap ( i may whine about it later )
I've finally got win xp up and running with only one minor problem and that is that it wont recognise the nvidia gefoprce 4 graphics card.
The install instructions for the geforce say that you change the display adapter ( basically ) but according to windows xp I dont have any display adapters on my system.
Further more if I run the geforce setup program I find that when I load it up windows says I've not installed it so there's no chance to switch to it.
Anyone know how to force win xp to accept it?
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