DosFreak

IIRC, the XP recovery console has some options. FIXMBR - to make the partition bootable FIXBOOT - IIRC, scans your HD for NT installations and adds them to the boot.ini I think there's another one as well. FIX something. You can always just modify the BOOT.INI yourself. If your XP is on the second partiton then you would just duplicate your 2000 entry but change "partition(1)" to "partition(2)". or "disk" if you have XP on another disk.

Disc could be bad or the cdrom. You could try typing in the key and not checking the activate checkbox if you thing the installer is buggy. You can always easily change the key later.

Actually if you dual-boot Vista with another MS OS, even if you install Vista on "D:\", when you boot into Vista it will always shows as "C:\" even if it shows as "D:\" in XP/2003. heh.

Wow. Do you know what version of windows you have? Windows 98? Windows ME? Windows 2000? Windows XP?

Go to Start and then RUN and type in "MSINFO32.EXE". Then press enter. Go to "Components", then "Display" Report what it say's for "Name" on the right-hand side Report what it say's for "Adapter" Report what it say's for "Adapter RAM"

Yeah, it is. Just didn't know how experienced you were with doing it.

Drive letters will be the same. You have to boot from the XP CD and go into the recovery console to repair your NTLDR/BOOT.INI since when you format your C:\ you'll be wiping those out and the 2K boot files may not be compatible. Why are you dual-booting 2k/XP anyway?

Yeah, a big thing about Defender from what I heard in an MS interview is that they want Defender to do it's thing behind the scenes with little intervention from the user. I've noticed this since I barely ever get any popups from Defender but when I check out the event log there are alot of entries from Defender. Only occasionally will Defender itself popup when something really serious happens. Of course whenever I do a full scan with Defender it never finds anything any way which is why I keep spybot installed.

Wrong about what? I wasn't disputing the KB, just the assertion that the Disk Cleanup program actually cleaned your system decently.

Doubt it. Run CCleaner. Then you'll be on your way to a clean partition. Of course formatting it would make it really clean....

Download the diagnostics for your hard drive from your hard drive manufacturer and run them on your drive. If you cannot find them then just download the Ultimate Boot CD and run them from there.

Use CCleaner. You can choose what you want to be deleted. So if you want to leave cookies alone then you just uncheck the box.

If your hard drive does not format all of the way then it means you have a bad hard drive.

Take your computer to a computer store. No a SiS graphics card is not acceptable.

I hard someone else had the same problem. They said used "save as" instead of "save" like they were supposed to.

Also if XP cannot copy files while it's installing it means that you either have a bad/dirty CD or CDROM drive or that your computer has bad memory.

Cannot install? What happens? Does the install just hang or what?

When does it "crash"? and what is this "crash" exactly? Does it try to load the game (a spinning disc appears and then disappears?) and then just doesn't do anything? or does it actually load the game and while loading exits out?

Anytime I see that .ICD error it usually means it's a copy protection problems. Try downloading a NOCD cr-a-ck for your game.

New Years Wish (not resolution): Hoping the forums will be a little more active this year. I stayed home this New Year....tried to play Titan Quest single-player but got really really bored (Titan Quest is more fun multiplayer) and I watched the DVD of Season 1 of Nip/Tuck.....then I went to bed.

I haven't tried IE7 or WMP11 on 2000 yet. I might mess around if I get bored. I'm suprised that the guys on the MSFN forums haven't bothered yet actually. Defender was easy since it always worked on 2000 and it was just a simple check in the installer that needed to remove. IE7 and WMP11 are likely much more complicated. I'm pretty busy testing Vista compatibility ATM and I never did like IE or WMP that much anyways so as I stated above...only if I get really really bored.

Supposedly MS has "19,000" drivers waiting around for the official release of Windows Vista next month. Why they are waiting I have no idea but I guess we'll find out.

Your SOL. You need a decent video card. (Nothing Intel is nowhere near decent for gaming) http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-010467.htm

Yup, your right. Tried the demo out today and it didn't work. I'm even tried it on a laptop that only had XDDM (XP)drivers (not WDDM (Vista). Still doesn't work. Hopefully Relic will release a patch.

Ooops, looks like I said Installshield up above. It's actually Windows Installer. Changed the above to avoid confusion.