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Thread ID: 30876 2003-03-05 19:47:00 OMG Help me Please!!!! JamesStewart (874) Press F1
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125806 2003-03-05 23:44:00 I'm feeling devlish today, and Merlin is quite right :)

It never ceases to amaze me that people are prepared to spend $2k or so on a computer and a strange pre-installed OS, and yet wont buy a decent book/manual that will tell them how to drive it. Even worse they commit important data to the thing with no back-up.

To learn by playing around is one thing, but when you cant afford to lose your data, then thats stupid :p

After all, no normal person would think of driving in a strange country without buying a road map, and finding out the road rules before driving off.
Terry Porritt (14)
125807 2003-03-06 00:03:00 Yes, I can sympathise with that.

Personally, regular backups would solve that sorta problem, but with the likes of me, I'd need to buy a DVD-Burner to backup the 8 odd gigs of data of mine, that's just not really viable burning it to CD's, unless I do it as a one off, which is why Ive got two seperate HDD's for my stuff.

I guess you are right, and a quick push of F1 should have helped, but still, Merlin could have been a little nicer.

We all have to start somewhere.

Just out of curiousity Merlin, What do you do for a job, mentioned before?
Chilling_Silence (9)
125808 2003-03-06 01:16:00 OK, I do know EXACTLY how i did this. And i do have a manual on XP Pro (it HUGE!) but i sitll don't know how to rectify the situation. Here it is again though. I WAS blues boy - user name. I changed the permissions so that only I could get into the E: drive. I then formatted the C: drive and reinstalled Windows XP Pro and my user name is again Blues Boy. But the permissions think I am a differant user so I can't get into the drive. I right click on the driver and go properties but the sercurity tab isn't there. I need to make the computer think:

A) I am the old Blues Boy

B) Just plain let me into the driver.

How do I do this?
JamesStewart (874)
125809 2003-03-06 01:21:00 Sorry, one more thing, I have had XP for about 5-6 months now and am pretty good. I do know what I am doin. Where can I get a Lynix boot CD from. We did get it with PC World BUT!!!! I can't find it any where. JamesStewart (874)
125810 2003-03-06 01:43:00 Sorry James, I didnt make plain I was being very general and wasnt getting at you in particular, wasnt intending to be nasty. Terry Porritt (14)
125811 2003-03-06 01:45:00 And your password is EXACTLY the same? Chilling_Silence (9)
125812 2003-03-06 01:46:00 umm.. no i still havn't set the password on my new account. but that couldn't be it could it???? :S JamesStewart (874)
125813 2003-03-06 01:50:00 Yup! That's it - Gotta have the Password EXACTLY the same :D Chilling_Silence (9)
125814 2003-03-06 01:52:00 i dont want you to get my hopes up here but are you SURE that is it?? JamesStewart (874)
125815 2003-03-06 02:11:00 I'd say so if its trying to do its authentication its gonna be looking for both same username and password.

Cant hurt to change your password and try now can it?!
Chilling_Silence (9)
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