XP startup nightmare

[Big Booger]

well blackcat,

for the LAN settings, simply boot your Japanese OS and copy them down,
STARt/CONTROL PANEL/(IN CATEGORY VIEW)/ NETWORK AND INTERNET CONNECTIONS/(bottom)/CLICK NETWORK CONNECTIONS/

Then choose the NIC that you are using, and right click it, select properties and write down all of that information.

Then call your provider and get your account USERNAME and PASSWORD, if you don't already have it. NTT sends you a sheet with all that information. It has your email address and server info, it has your password and username, it has the DNS server addresses, etc...

As for the boot.ini file, once you have booted and you see that the Japanese OS is missing from the boot..

Boot the English OS, then click start, RIGHT click MY COMPUTER, select properties, then the advanced tab, then click under startup and recovery, SETTINGS TAB, then next to edit the startup file manually click EDIT, just CLICK EDIT, then copy and paste the contents of the SAVED BOOT.INI file into that boot.ini file. THEN MAKE SURE TO CLICK FILE, and CLICK SAVE!!!

Then reboot, and you should see your J-OS.

[blackcat]

Bibooger,
OK I`m with you now, Thanks again

[blackcat]

Big Booger.
thanks for the help( and CST) I`ve done a fresh install and so far so good, but you were right about the booting up and I cant see the japanese option.

I copied and pasted as you said but still no go...I cant copy the backup file from the floppy..(it doesnt know what program created it) but I can copy the boot.ini config. info...there is a lot of info in the "bootpad" do i delete the existing info and then paste from the floppy???

here is the original:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

here is the one from the floppy:

"boot configuration settings"..
[boot loader]
timeout = 5
default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS

i hope I havent stuffed up as I cant copy the boot.inibackup only the config.
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
thanks again

[blackcat]

furthermore.I CANT FIND THE PARTITION ??? no partition magic anywhere to be found? no option to dual startup either..!
the total memory in the c drive isnt enough for the whole system..so where is the partition program and the japanese OS???

[Big Booger]

Please tell me, you chose to install the English version in the correct partition.

If you overwrote the Japanese OS, and installed the English OS over the top, the J-OS is gone.

you'll need a partitioning software:
http://www.ranish.com/part/

A freebie Partition Manager above.
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

Partition magic above.

http://www.v-com.com/product/pc8_ind.html

Partition Commander

The only thing I can think of is that you formatted the entire drive, and installed the English XP, then you have unpartitioned space that you need to reallocate.

Can you post a screenshot of partition magic and of MY COMPUTER contents.

As for the copy and paste, are you sure the partition remains the same? If the partitioning changed, IE

JOS was installed on C and English on D

When you reinstalled

English is on C now, and JOS should be on D.


Also you could have formatted the English OS partition, and then installed over your J-OS partition.

If you have your J-XP cd, pop it in, and then install it in a separate partition.


About the C Drive not showing the full space.. how big is your HDD? How many Gigabytes do you see? How many are missing?

[blackcat]

Big Booger firstly let me thank you for your help about this problem that drove me crazy, I fixed the problem as a friend suggested to dload bootmagic, I did and now both systems are up fine
I dloaded it and setup and no probs except i put it in the startup folder so i should change that unless i want to see the whole program load upon startup,,,i suppose ill put it in access.

so thanks again BB, now all i need to do is get my SBlive sound and printer working

[Big Booger]

SBlive, I have one, works flawlessly. I'd say you just need a driver:

http://techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6890

That is the most recent driver available for that card. I installed it several days ago.

Printer most likely just needs a driver as well.

And bootmagic is a very nice program to help you with booting problems.


too bad it was discontinued as a stand alone software application and instead has been bundled with Partition Magic.

[blackcat]

big booger,
This was a problem i had when i first upgraded from ME to XP, it took my friend and I a long time to get the SBlive series working....we did but cant remember EXACTLY what we did

I have dlodaed the one from the link but it says SB`ster isnt installed on my system, however I have virtually dloaded every patch,driverpack etc from the sounblaster.com site, rolled back and updated driver etc. and still no go...the device saya its working, the "Creative" diagnostic came up with a few system fails the first time I dloaded, but the most recent dload and diagnostic says all working fine.
test speakers and nothing...all plugged in etc, I`ve heard this has happened before, searched the web but cant find anyone with an answer.

someone suggested the video drivers need replacing for it to work??

My question is can I unistall it and reinstall,,(but made for ME) or can I just piss the whole sustem of altogether???

The printer is an old lexmark, I saved the drivers from the previous OS but no go....anyway i can print from the japanese side.

[Big Booger]

try manually installing them.

click start
right click my Computer
select properties
hardware
device manager
scroll down to the sound

Right click the create Sound device MDM or whatever..

Select update driver, install from a list or specified location,

Then make sure you have extracted the contents from teh creative driver download and put it in a folder.

Then look for that folder from within the device manager update.. find the .inf file that corresponds to windows Xp.

I know I had to do that a couple of times. But recently the driver just seems to work every time.

What kind of video card do you have?

And to install the printer you can do it manually as well or you can try compatibility mode as well.

[blackcat]

Ok BB, I`m trying that now, I updated drivers using wizard last time so Ill do it this way,
I`ve got the dload in a file and extracted...when i go into device mangr.
I have a few options which should i choose to update driver....??

Audio codecs
SBlive series
legacy audio drivers
legacy video capture devices

?

[Big Booger]

been a while since I checked this thread:

You should right click SBlive Series click update driver.. then navigate to the folder where you downloaded the files and find the inf file that matches your version of windows.