Geoff McDowall

Thanks alot. I'll check out Adaptecs site.

I want to replace the main drive on my pc. It's quite old PII 300 with 256mb ram. I have a aha-2940 scsi card. In the manual it supports drives up to 8gb. I wish to install a 40 gb hard drive. If I set up 5 8gb partitions will I be able to install it? Also I assume it is possible to install an upgrade of the os if you have the disks from the previous os In this case nt4? Or do I have to install nt4 and then upgrade it? thanks

Thanks Christian, Managed to get some of them to work. But I'll check out the sites Thanks Geoff

I managed to install the patch thanks to your help. For Nt I had a great book called Useing Windows NT Workstation 4. It's like a recipe book, find your problem and follow the instructions. I probably will wait til I upgrade to xp before investing in another one, but I find trying to work around problems a nightmare as my problems never seem to be in FAQ's and help sites for individual programs never seem to get back to you with anything useful. So I've really come to appreciate forums like these. That said so far none of the games seem to want to run anyway. But at least I've got a start. Sop thank again. Geoff

Thanks Guys.

I'm trying to install the w2k compatability patch. Following instructions I type in regsvr32C:\WINNT\AppPatch\slayerui.dll and get "unable to open Internet Short cut the protocol "regsvr32c" doesnot have a registered program If I type regsvr32\C:\WINNT\AppPatch\slayerui.dll I get cannot find "regsvr32\C:\WINNT\... or one of its components make sure filepath and name are correct. Is there something very obvious I'm doing wrong? I have SP2 installed and can find slayerui in if I run a search Thanks

Yes I know I'm going to uninstall and reinstall the scanner when I hit a patch where Idon't need it.

Thanks jmmijo, Thankfully I don't have 1gb memory. w2k seems to have a similar recovery console. uboofer. my scanner is a umax 1200s with firmware 2.8 which means I have to use the driver microsoft provides. Surprisingly or not this is the only time I've had a problem with an upgrade or an sp. they usually seem to improve things. It's quite an old system PII 300 with 256mb ram with an 8mb glpro graphics card. But apart from games seems to run photoshop, Afterfx, and 3d programs fine.

I recently tried to install SP4 for w2k. It had a serious problem with a driver for my scanner and windows was unable to load until I booted in safe mode and uninstalled the service pack. Has anyone had a similar problem with earlier sps. Also I now have a very large highly fragmented memory dump.dmp file somewhere on my computer. If I can find it am I right in my belief it can be safely deleted. Thanks