do you have ANYONE who you know in REAL LIFE who is allowed in your presence who you know has a USB pen-drive already?
Switching from MS 2000 to XP - what will I lose?
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Minnie_the_Minx
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yes, my b-in-law's one worked but obviously I'll need to give that back to him and/or replace it/buy some myself.
kained&able
Here for the football.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
You're up to Service Pack 4 aren't you? They'll all be fine.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Excellent, they seem cheap enough so even if they don't work, I'll not have lost a huge amount of money.
This one's pretty
Oh, a bird just flew straight into our window
kained&able
Here for the football.
looks like a mini maglite.
Why are you wanting to upgrade to XP in the first place? Are there XP drivers for your laptop? Windows 2000 is perfectly serviceable. That said, IIRC the in-place upgrade from Windows 2000 to XP Pro is pretty much seamless and painless, and a blank install is not necessary (though recommended).
This is a laptop, isn't it? You really need extra RAM, so go to www.crucial.com/uk and run their analyser.Then buy yourself a USB hard drive so you can back everything up. You can get a new internal 2.5" drive for £35 or so - yours will be IDE / PATA rather than SATA. Back up to the external drive, then replace the internal one and restore to it. Then do your upgrade.
This is a laptop, isn't it? You really need extra RAM, so go to www.crucial.com/uk and run their analyser.Then buy yourself a USB hard drive so you can back everything up. You can get a new internal 2.5" drive for £35 or so - yours will be IDE / PATA rather than SATA. Back up to the external drive, then replace the internal one and restore to it. Then do your upgrade.
Minnie_the_Minx
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I've decided it would be unsuitable anyway as it would probably not have enough room what with my mouse plugged in
'cos everyone says W2K is shit
Everything's on hold at the moment. I have these Found 001, Found 002 etc. folders on my system. I've been told they're probably not good
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
Finding drivers for XP is a nightmare. Take up Kanda on his offer. You're going to need help with this.
If Win2K is working for you, there's no need to switch just because other people say it's shit. If it's being a bit flakey and you have the original disks, you could just try a repair/reinstall of Win2K.
If Win2K is working for you, there's no need to switch just because other people say it's shit. If it's being a bit flakey and you have the original disks, you could just try a repair/reinstall of Win2K.
Minnie_the_Minx
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Not sure yet. I've got rid of problem I had. It was Kapersky trying to run with Nod32 installed as well. Managed to uninstall it fully by reinstalling it again.
Need to know how serious these Found.001/002/003 problems are
I've been told it could mean my hard drive is seriously fucked
Possibly. They're indicative of logical corruption - a dodgy filesystem - and are created when CHKDSK.EXE fixes the problem. Look in the Event Viewer (Start, Run eventvwr) and look at the System log. If you've got entries in red with a source of Disk, then that is a serious issue indicating that the hard drive is failing and should be replaced. Otherwise you might benefit better from a wipe and reinstall.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Where's eventvwr?
Or do I have to physically type eventvwr in?
Found it.
There's loads of things in red all saying "service control manager", "dcom", "atapi", "windows update agent", "cdrom" "server", "srv"
There's also yellow warning signals saying "print", "cdrom", "srv", "dhcp", "dnscache"
just fkkn get on withit.
Otherwise you might benefit better from a wipe and reinstall.
Otherwise you might benefit better from a wipe and reinstall.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
yes.
because you don't know if your harddrive is fucked.
if it's fucked then you prolly won't be able to install Windows correctly/at all...so you won't know if or not your harddrive is fucked unless you actually do something about it. ie Reinstall Windows.
As it is... I have about 16 hard drives... in 10 years of hammering them/not hammerings them... I've lost 1...and that was a 1/2gig.
so in 10 years I've had 1 failure out of 17.
So there's something else to talk about while you don't do anything and others do the thinking of something else for you.
J33bus all this timwe you could be on Amazon doin' the do and you're wasting all that valuable Windows_shopping time reading and re-reading my shit & others.
w00t!1111
wanna buy an Ubuntu disk?
I'm going to the Beach now. 
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
yes.
because you don't know if your harddrive is fucked.
if it's fucked then you prolly won't be able to install Windows correctly/at all...so you won't know if or not your harddrive is fucked unless you actually do something about it. ie Reinstall Windows.
As it is... I have about 16 hard drives... in 10 years of hammering them/not hammerings them... I've lost 1...and that was a 1/2gig.
so in 10 years I've had 1 failure out of 17.
So there's something else to talk about while you don't do anything and others do the thinking of something else for you.
J33bus all this timwe you could be on Amazon doin' the do and you're wasting all that valuable Windows_shopping time reading and re-reading my shit & others.
w00t!1111
wanna buy an Ubuntu disk?
Excuse me, but I didn't resurrect this thread. I've been told to leave everything as it is for now, now that Kapersky's been uninstalled. I'm not sure what I'm leaving and what plans b/f's brother has for it, but he's told me to just "leave it alone" for now
and that I deserve to be shot
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Leafster
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It was actually under the BIG "W" but I don't think he meant that.huh?
The treasure is under the "W"
(Bosky's "W" = Whatever!)
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
It was actually under the BIG "W" but I don't think he meant that.
(Bosky's "W" = Whatever!)
You're quite right.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Bastard!
I was just looking for W palm trees, but I couldn't remember the name of the film.
Came across lots of palm trees which made me want to go on holiday
Very worrying. What do the atapi errors say?
And if you've not got a backup, do one now.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
What do you mean, "what do the atapi errors say?"
It just says:
Error, Date, Time, Source, Category, Event, User, Computer
(I right-clicked it and went onto properties and it says "The device, \de\Device\Port\dePort1 did not respond within the time period"
Backup of what?
What this is saying is that the computer demanded something from the drive and the drive didn't respond in time. But being device 1 rather than 0, it's referring to your DVD drive and is nothing to worry about.
Backup of what?
Your data. Anything that you would rather not lose.
Backup. Make another backup to somewhere else. Test backups. Make install sets of all drivers. Write down all license keys. Wipe. Reinstall. Restore data. Sorted.
Minnie_the_Minx
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I don't have a DVD drive, I only have an CD-RW drive.
Oh, I did all that last week. I was up 'til 4.00am for a few nights saving photos on to websites, forwarding all the emails to myself to be saved in the Zen server which can be accessed via Zen rather than Outlook Express.
My friend who said my hard drive looks like it was in trouble accessed it remotely. I'm not having problems at the moment as we managed to uninstall the remaining bit of Kapersky that was seizing my computer up.
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