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Originally posted by peterh: Quote: Windows XP does not support gameport type Sidewinder joysticks and only provides minumum functionality ie no force feedback, extra controls etc. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;842957 I suggest getting a USB Sidewinder. I found this on a French Forum: ------------------------------------------ "Si cela peut vous aider, j'ai installé mon ancien FF1 avec les drivers du 2. Ben ça marche! Enfin, pour les derniers drivers sortis pour le 1, on peut tenter l'installe sous XP, en outrepassant l'avertissement de ce dernier comme quoi "ce logiciel n'est pas...". Dans mon cas cela avait fonctionné, mais des amis n'ont jamais pu l'utiliser. En gros, à tenter!" Roughly translated: he has an old FF1 and he used the drivers for the FF2, and as he says, IT WORKS (for him) ... You can all but try !

Originally posted by peterh: Quote: Windows XP does not support gameport type Sidewinder joysticks and only provides minumum functionality ie no force feedback, extra controls etc. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;842957 I suggest getting a USB Sidewinder. I found this on a French Forum: ------------------------------------------ "Si cela peut vous aider, j'ai installé mon ancien FF1 avec les drivers du 2. Ben ça marche! Enfin, pour les derniers drivers sortis pour le 1, on peut tenter l'installe sous XP, en outrepassant l'avertissement de ce dernier comme quoi "ce logiciel n'est pas...". Dans mon cas cela avait fonctionné, mais des amis n'ont jamais pu l'utiliser. En gros, à tenter!" Roughly translated: he has an old FF1 and he used the drivers for the FF2, and as he says, IT WORKS (for him) ... You can all but try !

Originally posted by peterh: Quote: Windows XP does not support gameport type Sidewinder joysticks and only provides minumum functionality ie no force feedback, extra controls etc. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;842957 I suggest getting a USB Sidewinder. I found this on a French Forum: ------------------------------------------ "Si cela peut vous aider, j'ai installé mon ancien FF1 avec les drivers du 2. Ben ça marche! Enfin, pour les derniers drivers sortis pour le 1, on peut tenter l'installe sous XP, en outrepassant l'avertissement de ce dernier comme quoi "ce logiciel n'est pas...". Dans mon cas cela avait fonctionné, mais des amis n'ont jamais pu l'utiliser. En gros, à tenter!" Roughly translated: he has an old FF1 and he used the drivers for the FF2, and as he says, IT WORKS (for him) ... You can all but try !

Originally posted by akitoto: Quote: Hi all, Recently I bought a maxtor 250GB Hard drive and put it in a casing to connect it through usb2 to my PC as an external drive. My Computer->Manage->Disk management tool sees the drive but lets me only format partitions of size smaller then or equal to 32GB (at 100% it gives an error saying that it could not complete the format succesfully). The jumpers are NOT set to the 32GB restriction. (the jumper I have set is "master"); bios is of 2002 and I am using XP pro with sp1. The 8 partitions of size 31 GB work fine but elas this is not what I want: I would like to have two partitions of size 100GB and one for the rest. Can anyone help me? Thanks Akitoto Are you sure you have the drive connected through an USB2.0 Root Hub ? Are you sure the drive is detected as 250GiB(232GB) in POST ? Why haven't you updated to SP2 yet ? I know someone with an ext. USB connected HDD (Maxtor)[smaller than 250GB] who had no problems formatting that disk after it had been divided in 2 equal parts, one part even with the largest possible cluster size (NTFS) ...

Originally posted by peterh: Quote: Windows XP does not support gameport type Sidewinder joysticks and only provides minumum functionality ie no force feedback, extra controls etc. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;842957 I suggest getting a USB Sidewinder. I found this on a French Forum: ------------------------------------------ "Si cela peut vous aider, j'ai installé mon ancien FF1 avec les drivers du 2. Ben ça marche! Enfin, pour les derniers drivers sortis pour le 1, on peut tenter l'installe sous XP, en outrepassant l'avertissement de ce dernier comme quoi "ce logiciel n'est pas...". Dans mon cas cela avait fonctionné, mais des amis n'ont jamais pu l'utiliser. En gros, à tenter!" Roughly translated: he has an old FF1 and he used the drivers for the FF2, and as he says, IT WORKS (for him) ... You can all but try !

CS is from the professional world. If the controller doesn't support it and you don't have IDE cables for CS use, CS won't work !!! In 'home' desktops, Master & Slave is still in use, except when using SATA drives ...

try booting XP from CD / go to repair / recovery console / start nr.1 and login. start a 'chkdsk /r c:' (without hyphens) let checkdisk do its repair type 'exit' when it has finished machine will restart, hopefully to a repaired Windows. NOTE: do a chkdsk /r c: through DOSbox (run 'cmd') a regular intervals to be sure your HDD is still healthy. You could also run HDDhealth continuously in Windows to keep that checked automatically. You can find that here: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/hddhealth.html