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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Need Desperate Help!!! | ||||
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| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 2:47 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01  | Alright I made a new NTFS partition and now I can't boot into ME. Luckily I have linux which is allowing to use my comp still. Here is what happens when I try to boot into ME.quote: Then when i do that it just repeats the last part again. What can I do to get into Windows?  E-Mail Me Head its just not for breakfast anymore | ||||
The sky is blue | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 3:04 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00 | And I thought my computer was effd up See My Sig Pics! If you want to be adopted by me IM me at fezoanda and email me at meguyelvis@hotmail.com Currently I've adopted giraffe raper and drkn2forget | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 3:28 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | Wow, that sucks. Wish I could help, but I can't. ~Matt/Froy from Jersey Official Protector of Gay Marco & SwampJunk...if he ever decides to post. | ||||
| RandomNY | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 4:14 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | Windows ME doesn't support NTFS because it's the WIN9X kernal like windows 98 and 95. You can use windows2000 which is based on NT. Ifyou want you can make a duel boot system with Win2k and ME or 98. You will setup a NTFS(If you want to use it) and a FAT 32 partition for ME or 98. The best thing to do is just use Win2k. ME sucks the big one.. Plus Windows XP is coming out soon and the WIn9x Kernal will no longer be produces. Everything will be based on the NT Kernal. This message was edited by RandomNY on 4-7-01 @ 4:17 PM | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 4:24 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I was making an NTFS partition so I could install Win 2000 on it. I was going to have a triple boot system, or at least I planned. E-Mail Me Head its just not for breakfast anymore | ||||
| PatCooper | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 4:58 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Uhhhhhh.......What game does this have to do with?. J/K of course :)  | ||||
| RandomNY | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 6:14 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | Forget ME of as most reveiw sites called it. THE MICROSOFT DEFENSE FUND!! :):) Blow out the partition and recreate it and use WIN2k and LINUX... Win2k works well now with most games.. I play Half Life and UT and Sammy Sosa Basball with no problems.. Download the Service Pack and the Compatibility pack. T | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 6:28 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Well let me ask you something. For compaitability will I need a FAT32 partition in WIN2k for games and some apps. I still don't know though I want to get into WinME first and keep it there just in case because you said most games. And I want to gradually phase it out instead of one swift move. If you cant help me could anyone else? Maybe FTL, because he always me with this stuff. E-Mail Me Head its just not for breakfast anymore | ||||
| RandomNY | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 8:45 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | The games will play will play on the NTFS.. There are patches for some games so they work with WIN2k like Tony Hawk 2. My system with setup like this. I have my 20 gig HArd Drive partitioned with 1 NTFS that is my C: drive...I have Win2k running installed on my C:. So far every game I have tried works fine on WIN2k. If you want to use WINME just stick with WIN98SE. The only true upgrade with ME is that DOS is no longer part of the operating system. I had from when I was using 98SE and ME 3 Fat32 partitions. One for games one is for my downloads and one was for MP3's. I had WIn2k and Win98SE in a duel system and it ran fine. | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 8:54 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | You see this was a new computer so I had started with WinME. I want to be able to access my data because there is a shitload of data that I have. E-Mail Me Head its just not for breakfast anymore | ||||
| RandomNY | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 9:00 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | what kind of computer is it? Did you build it yourself? Upgrading OS"s is always a bitch.. it's much easier to install the OS fresh then reinstall everything else.. I use Drive Image Pro to backup my whole hard drive to CDR so I can experiment without worrying about losing anything. | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 9:04 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | its an alienware, but linux recognizes the win partition so I can back it up from linux. But still I just want to be able to boot into Windows. E-Mail Me Head its just not for breakfast anymore | ||||
| RandomNY | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 9:08 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | Those are cool machines.. I build my own but I always look at their ad's in the magazine's good setups. HOnestly I would try to save personal data.. Programs of course can be reinstalled and reformat that partition, Then reinstall whichever OS you want.. If you have a lot of stuff.. do you have another HD to throw that stuff onto? This message was edited by RandomNY on 4-7-01 @ 9:12 PM | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 9:13 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I was thinking of buying a new hard drive. E-Mail Me Head its just not for breakfast anymore | ||||
| RandomNY | posted on 04-07-2001 @ 9:14 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | I have like a draw full of comp crap.. I still have my 540 mb hard drive from like 7 years ago. :):) I'm going to get 2 30 gig IBMS and run them in a raid. When I do I'll put my 10 gig IBM in the draw and maybe turn it into a removeable drive.. then my 20 gig will be my backup drive. :) | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 04-15-2001 @ 3:05 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | OK im still not able to get into Windows. Can anyone help me with this? Is it a damaged partition table or not? What can I do? E-Mail Me IM me at stickysituation2 | ||||
| allyourbasearebelongtous | posted on 04-16-2001 @ 9:34 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Apr. 01 | You could try to boot from the C drive or your CD Rom instead of the A drive. Go into your MOBO setup and change the boot order. It might work. If it does, get partition magic 6.0, which comes with Boot Magic. It will prevent this problem in the future. Boot Magic will let you choose whatever OS you want to use. Also, in the future, you might want to install WIN on one hard drive, and install LINUX on the slave drive. If all else fails, you can just remove the slave drive, and always boot to WIN or vise versa. allyourbasearebelongtous  | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 04-16-2001 @ 5:34 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I have partition magic 6.0 but did not use bootmagic i prefered lilo because it was already configured and I really didn't want to bother configuring to boot linux. But I'll change the boot order and see how that works. E-Mail Me IM me at stickysituation2 | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 04-17-2001 @ 3:38 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Still nothing, that doesn't work. Can anything help me? E-Mail Me IM me at stickysituation2 | ||||
| MST3KLD | posted on 04-17-2001 @ 9:59 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | Windows ME sucks | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 04-17-2001 @ 10:07 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Yes I know, but that's not the question if it sucks or not. E-Mail Me IM me at stickysituation2 | ||||
| The Brain | posted on 04-18-2001 @ 12:24 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | Back to the top...quote: Is there a reason why the computer is trying to boot these files from the floppy instead of the hard drive? Did you remember to make a WinME startup disk? If not, see if a Win98 startup disk can at least get you to Safe Mode in WinME (doubtful, but it could be worth a try...) ***WARNING: I know nothing about Linux, but try this if possible*** Boot into Linux, insert your WinME CD and copy the IFSHLP.SYS to your C:\windows directory and vmm32.vxd to C:\windows\system directory (if they are already there, overwrite them-- this way you have a fresh uncorrupted version installed). Remove the floppy startup disk and reboot. If that doesn't work, a complete re-installation is probably for the best.  "ARE YOU PONDERING WHAT I'M PONDERING?" | ||||
| FoundryMusicJeff | posted on 04-18-2001 @ 12:50 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | If i were you i'd have three different hard drives with three independent partitions...I have had the worst luck with partitioning programs...they often screw things up. In addition, NTFS inacessible through a dos prompt by proxy of a boot disk, which makes it a very insecure filesystem if you care about file recovery. Don't mix two partitions on the same drive. It just spells disaster. I have the Joe Dirt mullet.  | ||||
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