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| Thread ID: 88851 | 2008-04-11 10:08:00 | Dual booting XP | pine-o-cleen (2955) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 657968 | 2008-04-12 04:53:00 | It gets to 'installing devices' and asks me f I want to install the driver for 'WDM crossbar' which is a graphics driver for the video input / output of my graphics card. Umm you sure WDM crossbar is for a graphics card?? Coz its a sys file for a TV tuner (like a deluxe or expert tuner) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 657969 | 2008-04-12 05:01:00 | Bet having two space-wasting computers looks really good right now :lol: | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 657970 | 2008-04-12 06:10:00 | Umm you sure WDM crossbar is for a graphics card?? Coz its a sys file for a TV tuner (like a deluxe or expert tuner) I don't have a TV tuner. And no I'm not sure, because it did the same thing when I took it out. |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 657971 | 2008-04-12 06:20:00 | did you ever try the FIXBOOT and FIXMBR commands from recovery console? it should redo everything and update your boot.ini file accordingly You shouldn't need to reinstall windows, to get the 2 booting (although the 2nd one may need fixing due to the changed hardware) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 657972 | 2008-04-12 06:36:00 | Yup, just tried them. Same result. Put the Mrs HDD back in her Pc and everything is working, now it's just mine that isn't. So I'm reformatting and starting from scratch. Sigh. |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 657973 | 2008-04-12 07:19:00 | Seems to me that there is a 'boot.ini' on your wife's drive which will be directing it to drive (0) partition(1) This should be edited to drive (1) partition (1) otherwise it goes in circles! I used to use 'Boot Magic' but I now use 'GaG' as a boot prog. Have XP, 2000, and Linux on the one box, no problems. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 657974 | 2008-04-12 07:28:00 | Her hdd still wont work coz of the hardware. And since repairing didnt work (it got worse), the only way youre going to fix it, is to reformat both on the same system. If they want both hard drives on the same system. (If both hdds have OS's on them) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 657975 | 2008-04-12 08:52:00 | It did? Judging from pine-o-cleen's posts, I'd guess that he simply pointed the Windows installer at the wrong disk, or it got really confused about what was what. The scenario he wants should be fairly easily achievable, and if Windows is giving him hell about which system is on which drive, installing grub should sort that - grub can be used to remap bios drives before Windows loads. | Erayd (23) | ||
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