Forum: Dell Computers
November 20th 10, 05:58 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 45
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Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?
There is another way which may seem easier. From BING, just delete the
recovery partition. When you try to boot Win7 you will see BootMGR is
missing.
I omitted a step. While in BING, delete...
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Forum: Dell Computers
November 20th 10, 11:08 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 45
Views: 1,773
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Forum: Dell Computers
November 20th 10, 10:43 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 45
Views: 1,773
Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?
Rob,
I've been away and I don't have the rest of the thread. Only your post. What
did I say about removing the recovery partition? Maybe I can fine tune it.
I assume you have Win7 with a recovery...
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Forum: Dell Computers
September 11th 10, 09:28 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,418
win7 and P4's
Bruce,
I haven't tried a P3. I read about someone who installed Win7 on a P2 with
100 MB RAM.
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Forum: Dell Computers
September 5th 10, 12:36 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 7
Views: 832
What the....?? (XPS Studio 8100 Pricing Issue)
In Australia, if you want a second HD for your computer, Dell charge 400%
over what you pay for the same HD from the local shop. Dell has done this
for the last few years. Dell used to charge double...
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Forum: Dell Computers
September 5th 10, 12:35 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 7
Views: 832
What the....?? (XPS Studio 8100 Pricing Issue)
In Australia, if you want a second HD for your computer, Dell charge 400%
over what you pay for the same HD from the local shop. Dell has done this
for the last few years. Dell used to charge...
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Forum: Dell Computers
September 4th 10, 09:27 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,418
win7 and P4's
"Bob Villa" wrote in message
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I'm very surprised...sounds like a Win2K rig!
A mate gave me two of...
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Forum: Dell Computers
September 1st 10, 06:13 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,418
win7 and P4's
mc,
My test computer is a P4 1.3 GHz. 384 MB RAM and 32 MB video card. Win7 runs
OK. A little slow of course but adequate for what I'm doing.
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Forum: Dell Computers
August 10th 10, 06:55 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 16
Views: 906
Hal.dll trouble
"Sam" wrote in message
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, will let you know if it shows up again.
Please do. It is weird.
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 28th 10, 11:59 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 16
Views: 906
Hal.dll trouble
"Sam" wrote in message
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I think that is why it took so long, it had to move all of the files.
Yes. It had to move...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 28th 10, 01:06 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 16
Views: 906
Hal.dll trouble
from what you say I may
delete the recovery & restore partition so that I only have one partition
on the HD and restore the image and let it write a standard XP MBR to the
disk.
Sam,
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 28th 10, 12:13 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 16
Views: 906
Hal.dll trouble
Sam,
Thanks for the detailed info. I'd be interested to see your boot.ini when
your system is playing up. As I'm sure you would too. I don't know why it is
happening. I doubt boot.ini is changing...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 27th 10, 09:05 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 16
Views: 906
Hal.dll trouble
Sam,
The hal.dll error is related to boot.ini pointing to an incorrect partition.
Tell us about your HDs and partitions. Do you swap HDs around prior to the
error? Do you use a boot manager? Could...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 26th 10, 03:17 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 2
Views: 339
Image to an SSD drive
When you clone one HD to another (as a clone or an image/restore process),
on the first boot from the new HD you MUST have the old HD disconnected. Try
restoring the image again.
What...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 19th 10, 10:48 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,531
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 19th 10, 10:17 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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About "BING" hope you are out there Brian K
press810,
You would certainly be able to boot the Diagnostic partition but not in the
way you suggested. The Diagnostic partition is just a FAT partition. So
create a Boot Item and use Swap. I...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 19th 10, 10:01 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,531
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 19th 10, 01:43 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,531
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 19th 10, 12:48 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,531
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 19th 10, 12:39 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,531
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop
press810,
There are good tutorials on using BING here....
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/howto/index.htm
BING can run from a floppy, CD or USB flash drive. You can partition, create
and restore...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 18th 10, 08:45 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,531
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 17th 10, 09:43 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,531
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop
Tim,
That WinXP had been installed to my HD0 a few years ago and imaged
immediately after installation. It is my test image.
I would never install an OS to anything other than a HD seen as HD0 at...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 17th 10, 08:04 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,531
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop
BING installs into an 8 MB primary partition, usually on HD0. It makes use
of the Extended MBR, LBA-1 and beyond as well as the MBR, LBA-0. It contains
no drivers. It doesn't care if you have 1 or...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 17th 10, 03:24 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,531
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 16th 10, 12:06 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,531
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop
Tim,
BING works fine with Vista and Win7. I don't use Window's boot manager so I
can't answer whether it can boot an OS on an eSATA HD. I'll bet BING could
boot an OS on a HD connected to your...
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