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asked for a dual boot installation, and what he ended up with is an intact Me installation, and a virgin XP installation without any of his old programs available. Makes sense, but it isn't what he wanted of course. I'm supposed to straighten out the mess. Is there any way to remove the new XP installation so it

MS IntelliMouse Explorer driver problems every 12 Mins.
I wanted to move my existing XP installation (Drive D) to a new larger drive without having to cutomize all my settings & reinstall all my programs all over again. INI is normally copy protected. To change it, you need to remove the write-only flag first. After each NT installation make a copy of the new BOOT.

Four KBs to address problems epidemic, ubiquitous and replete ...
I plan to upgrade my existing PC from windows 98 but now realise that I should have purchased the XP upgrade pack. Is it possible to continue installation without losing my win98 files or should I return the full version for the upgrade? Actually - truth be known - you made the BEST possible choice with your

Office 2000 deployment question
I want a clean start with XP. That's fine, you should've booted WinME, inserted the WinXP disk and followed the steps for an upgrade installation without backing up the existing installation. WinXP is completely different from any Win9x system, all system files are replaced. That's not what you did however.

Clip Organizer Cannot Complete Operation
Len Norton norton_...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support Later versions of XP shipped with SP1 incuded - could this apply to your friend? missing in he Add/Remove Programs how can it be done? Is it okay to just reinstall over the old installation without uninstalling first? Please advise.

Unable to boot XP Pro
I had to reinstall Windows from CD after removing the Hotfixes corrupted the files. Installed Service Pack 2 and all subsequent critical updates. I need to detect and repair my Office installation without accessing the program; ie, the programs would not let me access the help tab to even select the detect and

INSTALL-REPAIR
John Rumball jerumb...@hotmail.com microsoft public security Will this VB script patch NT4 workstation and server machines, besides 2K, XP and 2K3? Get ("win32_process") ' Start the installation without user interaction, and force a restart after completion. ret = oprocess.create ("c:\\Patchinst.exe -q -f") if

unmountable_boot_volume error message on setup
If all that fails you may need to back up your registry and remove all registry entries associated with Hewlett Packard (assuming this is the only HP There is a point in the install where the HP software asks you to plug in the device, but also gives you the option to continue installation without connecting.

W2K > XP, now dual-boot. How to remove the W2K?
If, however, you want to move your entire installation without reinstalling anything, please read on. Always log on with local administrator rights for the .... in Windows 2000 Q314070 - How to Move a Windows XP Installation to Different Hardware You can search: http://support.microsoft.com/support/search/c.asp?

dual boot ME/XP??
Is there an option to repair an existing Windows XP installation without wiping out customisations and resetting the registry? -- "Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." Tom Lehrer Remove "NO-SPAM" from email address when replying.

Installation of SQL 2000 on Windos XP ends without installing
This should remove any trace of either OS. Could this be? And what can I do about checking of my hyptohesis is correct, and fixing my system? I've read that XP won't even let you repair a legitimate licensed installation without putting you through a lot of extra trouble to prove you are the licensed owner of

Removing Prior Install
If I wanted to do that I would simply carry on with the partial install.... So, to restate the question, is there any way to get rid of the partial installation without wrecking the first sucessful installation? "Andrew E." wrote: One can't just "halt the install" w/o major problems....Try booting to xp cd,

DirectX 8.1b Redist?
I reinstalled XP (repair reinstall) and still have them. I am at a loss. :( http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=28361 was the place that asked to try disabling APIC. You can read it for more details. if you have a 2nd HDD change the HDDs and try to make a test-installation without any other

KB 827227How to Use a Visual Basic Script to Install a Patch
You may hate it, but let me tell you, you can't get by for long without it! Nick White --- HEAD:Hertz Music Please remove ns from my header address to reply via email If you plug in a USB device that has no driver, Windows sometimes (and XP all the time) associates "something" with that device while the driver

Nvidia drivers keep system from booting
It tells me to finish removing the drive you must restart the computer...'yes' or 'no'... after rebooting it finds the drive and i am back where i started. If, however, you want to move your entire installation without reinstalling anything, please read on. Always log on with local administrator rights for the

Uninstalling one of two XP Pro installations from a dual boot setu
I think that I have something corrupt on my desktop that isn't communicating or not sending the correct information to MSN .NET servers. I have tried to re-install but the profile(user name and password) are saved and reappear after the installation without me putting in any information. I am running XP home.

clean install of XP Pro w/out formatting hard drive
... alt comp os windows-xp Hi, I did an upgrade from win2000 to xp and things didn't work out so good, so I did a "fresh" install and it solved my problems, shut down properly, I get the dual boot option for 2 different versions of XP......how do I delete the previous installation without harming my new one?

Windows Installer: The system administrator has set policies ...
It doesn't show up in the "add/remove software" panel and when I simply try to delete the folder that contains the programme, I get an "access denied" prompt. I'm not sure whether this Is there anyway that I can set up XP to prevent any software installation without my specifically OKing its installation. Thanks.

Going from dual-boot to XP only??
The only way to do it is to move any files you wish to keep to another HD, if there are any programs on the 2nd installation of XP that you would like on How do I remove the second installation without corrupting the first? I hope this is an enough specific discription (and in silence I also hope I don't have

.NET won't authenticate
After an XP upgrade and especially after a vendor's restore disk, USB ports seem to not work properly. Upgrading chipsets or removing and refreshing in device manager usually cures. Trying a different USB port after a reboot often works. 2. Operator tries to install a driver without first uninstalling old