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I thought I would be able to download a free version of knoppix. I know little or nothing about it, but I need it to help recover files from an old Windows XP formatted hard drive. In any case, the searches I've done seem to take me to foreign languge download sight (I can't understand them) or...

I have an AMD 950Mhz w/40Gig HD, 128 Mhz RAM and WindowsXP that started to get flaky several weeks ago. It began by giving me OS runtime errors. I tried to reinstall XP, got most of the way through and the machine would blink off - restart and pick up installing at the stage prior to shutting...

Thanks. F10 got me to BIOS and manage disks in WinXP got me the rest. I now face the issue that WinXP will not let me change the system drive to c: because it is active. Is there a way to override this? sm

I've got a five year old Compaq Presairio 5695. I've upgraded it to XP and am now in the process of putting a larger HD in it. I used Norton Ghost to clone the smaller HD to the larger and then figured I'd simply switch the IDE cable to change the logical address and boot order. Eventually I...

I'm looking to upgrade to a larger HD and I would love to ghost my current WinXP Configuration and then ghost the new image to the larger HD. I've heard that some version of Ghost now does NTFS. What version would this be and what price should I expect to pay. I'm seeing a real range of prices...

At some point in the last several weeks some type of advertising program hijacked IE 6.0. On each page an ad for a local company embeds itsself INText the page at the top. Shortly thereafter I noticed that I had in increasing frequency of fatal errors (most give me this error MSVBVM60.DLL at...

Amd Skip and RedBeard 1: Thanks for your help. I'll do as you both suggest. L8ed

Somehow, someway my IE 6.0 has been hijacked by some type of subversive advertising application. At the top of EVERY Explorer window that I open an advertising window pops up with local ads. When I mouse over it shows http://servedby.advertising.com/with the number of whatever ad is being shown...

Thanks for the help. After fudging through it all for hours, I've finally gotten everything to agree. I can now not only see all of my home workgroup, I can use the internet also. Thanks again, sm

RW: Thanks again for the suggestion. At this point, I've got the computer back on my network by assigning it an IP address even though my others are using the XP machine the DHCP (I believe) as the server. I can browse to other machines in the network including the XP machine which has the...

RW: Thanks for the suggestions. I saw your NetBIOS post on another thread and had checked to see if it was the problem in my case. It must not be because mine is checked yes (grayed out). This computer has been on the internet in a number of different situations. 1. On my docking station at...

Jack: Thank you for the FAQ's. After reading through them it would appear that I've got connectivity only because of file and print sharing being enabled. I tried changing the bindings as you've suggested. Now I'm only seeing one of the other computers (Win98) on the network neighborhood and...

First timer here - please forgive (in advance) any newbie mistakes I may make! I have an external Alcatel ADSL modem and a Linksys DSL router that I am using for my home network. On this network I have one machine running Windows XP, and two running 98 SE. I'm now trying to configure my work...