madboy33 Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 Going to do it but i was worried about what ellas said about the ms-dos bit to delete.How do i delete the ms-dos bit ellas or does the XP disc do that?madboy33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 xp disc does that,the bit I posted was if you ever needed for some reason to go back to your recovery disc,1 thing worries me is you have no mobo disc,when I did the repair I got a whole load of found new hardware and please insert your intel disc,only sorted when I d/loaded latest intel graphics driver,and probs with scroll mouse s/ware missing file,it was on the h/drive but I had to search for it and direct xp to it,dont let this put you off,madboy out of interest if it asks for a windows cd when installing stick your r/disc in as craig is right some are accepted if they have windows files on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 As per PM i assume the BIOS will not be affected, do i put in the windows boot disc(XP) and then go for the cd-rom support or do i change the BIOS to CD-ROM as 1st boot ?very nervous madboy33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 hangon how are you going to format,as my upgrade would not let me as xp was installed,you will have to either format though my computer or admin tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 yes change to cd-rom first.bit reading here http://www.geocities.com/irish44440555/IRI...indowsXP14.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 madboy I would love to do that FORMAT:C for you in remote assistance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 wooooooohoooooooooooi am now the proud owner of an NTFS machine that is super fastwaheythanks to all who helpeda few problems though!how do i get my computer, my docs and all that on the desktop?madboy33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 Ok the re-format and instalation went well Only one hicup was to change the BIOS back to HDD as 1st boot apart from that all is well folksnow like i said i need to put the files on desktop so going to take a little bit of time herealso would like to thanks Craig and ellas for giving me the courage to do itone slight niggle is that when i boot up i still have the TINY logo, i can only deduct from this is that this is set up in the BIOS?madboy33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 How to get those icons on your desktop...Right click anywhere on your desktop and select 'properties'.Then hit the 'desktop' tab.Then 'Customize Desktop...' button.Then select what icons you would like!Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 Dont worry about the Tiny logo!Am i right in saying it shows up before the XP logo when booting?If this is the case, then it is part of the BIOS, and i haven't found a simple way to get rid of my PB logo on my laptop.It's only there for a few seconds anyway, just blink and it will be gone!!!Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 Ah thats brilliant Craig thanks for that, i thought i was going to have to add shortcutsi am impressed so far at the speed the computer is now runningoff to iomega for the big test now, The Drivers for the Iomega Zip Drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TERBOW Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 madboy33.you will find this gismo will also speedup xphttp://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/pe...oot/BootVis.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 erm Terbow, sorry to sound vague here, windows has unpacked bootviswhat now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 its in a temp file madboy,find it select optimize and and will restart and optimize startup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2003 thanks ellas and Terbow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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