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Thanks for all the help guys. duhmez it worked with something like that in the end but with the winxp versions instead and then repaired DS3Circuit now you tell me partitian magik will do it, duh Uykucu thanks for the warning, it was fat32 and in the end it needed a repair after using the fix tools from the winxp cd. 6 hours of loosing my hair and a week after it all sounds quite fun now,, but it was a nightmare at the time. It works now though, even with the old proggies that wont accept F: as a system drive. phew. thanks again tpe

There is an article in ms knowledge base on doing it in win2k. Gonna try this, if it breaks anything ill be sure to post my frustration later http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q223188 Well tryed that and it only suceeded in removing the drive letter totally and making the partition inactive, so watch out you WILL NOT be able to boot from it after However if you run setup from the xp cd afterwards and hit repair console type fixmbr and fix boot then reboot and run setup again, this time skipping the repair console entering r when given the second oppertunity to repair the installed version of windows it makes the drive boot as C again.

Can anyone give me any sugestions how to change a system drive with the assignmet F: to C: I know it sounds odd, but winXP boots up using the drive (new system disk) and retains its previous drive letter f: In the disk manager it is shown as the system disk and is active but when i try and change it i am not allowed as it is the system disk. To try and solve it I have put the old C: (old system disk) in as a non system disk, changed its letter to P: and then booted from it. When i do this and then boot up using the old system disk as p: as the system disk and the new system disk F: as a data only disk i get the problem that even though i have assigned it the letter the old system disk P it boots up as C: when used as the active system disk preventing me from changing the letter of the non active new system disk f: to C: Furthermore when i boot up on my old system disk and remove the drive letter of my non active new system disk in disk manager it reestablishes its self as F: again when restart with it as an active system disk. Hope that wasnt too confusing Many thanks tpe

thx for the reply. there is not much to elaborate, there are no errors in the event log. xp seems to think it is doing the right thing. however, when you try and access a networked file about half the time it will take a very (longest so far is 8 mins) long time to read the contents of the directory. A similar thing happens when logging on, if you just log on to the pc and not the domeain it happens reasonably quickly, but if you log on to the domain it takes a few mins too. It only happens with the three del pcs we have recently purchased (2 at one time and the third later) that came with xp sp1 preinstalled. tpe

We have several new XP pcs in the office, that log on to a win2k server (not pro) domain for our network. For some reason the log in and disk access from the new xp pcs but not the older 2kpro pcs can take up to several mins. Is this a known problem with xp? is there a known fix for it? many thanks tpe

Thanks very much, looks like the weekend is booked now, looking forward to upgrading back to win2k though tpe

Has anyone any experience in going from XP to 2k? At a guess this means a total reformat (regretably) is needed? If so problems with file system compatability that are likly to turn up? And is there anything i am likly to forget to back up. Many thanks tpe

Thanks for the reply Bursar. The nearest thing i have found is a Firewire/IEEE 1394 PC card that seems to do the trick. i do not know if IEEE 1394 is just the normal DV standard though, the camera has only DV and AV out and i am worried that IEEE 1394 is firewire and not DV. any ideas on this? the PC card link is beloww http://www.firewire-1394.com/pcmcia-firewire-siig-dual.htm tpe

Just wondering if it is possible to get an IBM thinkpad A30 running XP with PC slots I II and III to read digital video from a digital video camea that only has DV and AV out? This is for a friend that has no real experience with any of the equipment and has just bought the whole lot at once and is now a bit upset as even after having bought almost every cable under the sun he still cant get the two talking. DV is something i have no experience with either but i should think that to get a laptop to read it would only be possible if there is some kind of PC card that has a DV in facility? After had a quick look around the net but the nearest seems to be PCMA Firewire. Has anyone got any ideas how this may be possible and what he would have to buy? Many thanks tpe

Thank you all very much indeed. 1.3 gigs of disk space freed up, really a fantastic diference. Alien 25 more on the way as soon as i boot up in save mode, i was suprised i couldnt take posession of the tours folder, i sort of resent not having access to what i concider to be mostly advertisements (I dont know for sure i havnt run the tour) that i have had to pay for on my own pc. That hibernate was a real saving, and i have split my page file over 2 drives, which i should probably have done from the start. DosFreak I apreciate the time on your the 9600 baud very much, and more so because of the baud rate but valuable at any speed (they are history). CyberGenX I will have to look into restore to see what exactly i have slimmed down, i back up reasonably regularly so i am guessing that i dont need several gigs allocated to a restore that i will hopefully never use. It has saved me a bundle on both drives. Thanks all once again tpe

Can anyone help me free up some space on my system HDD, I am using 2.8 GB for the system files out of a 3GB disk and windows has started complaining. I presume this is because of the continual installments of service packs and the upgrade from win 2k to XP. I am however unable to determine which files and folders i can safely delete before i attempt a format and reinstall. Does anyone know where i can find this sort of thing out. Many thanks tpe

Thanks for taking a look, dont i feel silly now i found out the problem. For some reason when i reinstalled win2k the administrator did not have permission for that drive. i gave administrator permission and all was back to normal tpe DosFreak i guess we posted at the same time as i didnt see your reply. yes but long ago, and before so many hardware changes, but not before the burn out unfortunatly, lol that made me feel silly too thanks anyway

I am getting an access is denied error when attempting to access a stripped dynamic drive, can anyone please help as i would like to keep the info on it. After a graphics card burnout that necessitated a motherboard replacement (costly smoky and rather smelly) i have had to reinstall win2k. I have managed to keep most of the data on drive c that is a basic fat disk containing the system but although i can see drive d in the file manager i cant access it. When i try and get its properties it is reported as being 0 bytes. When i look at it in the disk manager it correctly reports it as 1x 20 gb stripped dynamic healthy NTFS composed of 2 x 10 gb hdds that are said to be online and healthy. I should probably say something about my hardware, i have a promice ultra DMA66 controller, but all apears to be working as the dynamic drives show up in the drive manager. I would greatly apreciate any help so as i dont have to lose the data stored on these drives. I have searched these forums and microsofts support site but have not found anything that helps so far. Many thanks tpe

Many thanks AlecStaar, it wasnt the virus checker stoping me it was win2k making some virtual directories. I managed to delete it by clearing the temp internet files. Anyone know how win2k puts these virtual directories with files in on the disk, it could well be useful to be able to edit them. tpe

Hi guys i was checking a network pc this evening and turned up a trojan. the report is pasted in at bottom of the post... Great its renamed. so i go in to the directory g:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\temporary internet files\ and look for the subdirectory that should contain the file. But, there is nothing but files, no directories at all. O.K change my view settings so as none of the files are hidden and then try again you say. well all hidden files are visable. just to check i made a new one. So then i select all and hit the shift delete button just to make sure. then i rescan the drive and guess what, the virus checker finds all the files and the virus still there in the same place they were before even though i cant see them and none of the files are hidden. (to make sure i changed the attributes of the folder g:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\ all its contents and sub directories, and still no luck. I am pretty sure that its not the virus that is dooing this but win2k that has made some kind of virtual file structure or something, but wtf is it? Help please tpe Scanned at: 10/08/2001 11:59 PM Virus Alert! Scanned by: fb at Hiccup F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows version 4.03 Scan engines used: F-PROT version 3.04.812 (signatures database date 2001-09-20) AVP version 3.00.129 (signatures database date 2001-09-19) Search: Drive G: Action: Disinfect Targets: File viruses Boot sector viruses Files: All Results of virus scanning: Scanned: 1 drive(s), 12319 file(s) Time: 16 min 10 sec Found: 1 infection(s), 0 suspected infection(s) in 1 file(s) Disinfected 0 file(s) g:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\s1yvcden\fst[1].0s Infection: 'JS.Trojan.Seeker-based' [AVP]