The NeoSmart Forums - Legacy Windows Support http://neosmart.net/forums en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:59:23 GMT vBulletin 60 http://neosmart.net/forums/images/chestnut/misc/rss.jpg The NeoSmart Forums - Legacy Windows Support http://neosmart.net/forums Windows XP: Reboot Cycling http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5072&goto=newpost Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:08:07 GMT Hello, For the past week or two my computer, freshly installed, has been working perfectly, without any flaws. Then, starting last night at 9:30... Hello,

For the past week or two my computer, freshly installed, has been working perfectly, without any flaws. Then, starting last night at 9:30 PM, it started to apply an Office Update and then, crashed with no blue screen, I thought that this was normal until, I logged on and it rebooted again and again. I then turned automatic reboot off and got the blue screen, of course, that says the following...

Quote:
A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or been terminated.

If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any Windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.

Technical information:

*** Stop: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x89826698, 0x8982680C, 0x805D1206)

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance.
Also, while I am in Windows itself, it redirected me to a page saying that McAfee was the problem, but I don't even have McAfee activated, it does not run on system startup. I must open it manually, by my choice.

I am certain that I do not have a virus because the computer only has programs from the store and has no internet access, I am still working on finding the correct driver, for the card that I have not put in.

Please help in a fair amount of time.

Update: I would like to add that it is perfectly stable in Safe Mode, I can not run the programs that I need for school though.
Update: I am going to try and completely remove McAfee, since nobody seems to care about this problem
Update: McAfee was not the problem, I am going to try to cancel all of the queued updates ]]> Legacy Windows Support daniel-sage http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5072 <![CDATA[getting XP Pro & Win 7 to dual boot]]> http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5026&goto=newpost Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:38:14 GMT I have two HDDs, one (0) has XP on a single partition and I have just installed Win 7 on a partition on second (1) HHD. Both are working fine but I... I have two HDDs, one (0) has XP on a single partition and I have just installed Win 7 on a partition on second (1) HHD.

Both are working fine but I have to reboot and repair each time I want to change OS and I have been going around the houses trying to sort this out.

I upgraded EasyBCD from 1.7 to2 after reading the forum and this makes it easier to reset the boot options but once I leave xp I have to repair.

After I installed Win 7 disk management shows the 2nd partition on HDD2 as C drive (while was E) while the old C drive is changed to 'D' drive. If I do this in XP C drive remains as C.
HDD 1 (or 0 in reality) is the system drive.

There is obviously something simple not happening although it maybe the user that is simple.

any help to get these two working together would be much appreciated ]]> Legacy Windows Support iockus http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5026 Tricky scenario - booting into Windows 7 VHD from XP http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5023&goto=newpost Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:47:16 GMT Hey all, great software and great forum here. I have a tricky scenario that I wanted to get somebody's views on...

I want to install Windows 7 booting from a VHD on a machine that has Windows XP SP3 on it. I don't want to touch this install in any way, not even to install Easy BCD. There's a way to install Linux like this, by booting a Linux Live USB stick, and I read about booting Windows 7 from a VHD today, and now I've got it in my head that I should do that. :??

I don't want to modify the boot file of the XP install, and I don't care about having it be completely user-friendly. For example, when I boot my Linux USB stick, I have to insert the USB stick, power on the laptop, and then press F12, and select USB Media when the boot menu comes up. Is there a similar way to boot Windows so that the existing install isn't touched at all?

EDIT: Also, I understand that it doesn't work when the VHD file is on USB storage. I'm going to put the VHD on the existing hard drive. ]]> Legacy Windows Support Mark Larson http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5023 <![CDATA[XP install on a Win7 HDD: can't boot into win7]]> http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4977&goto=newpost Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:16:27 GMT NOTE: forum description read "This is for all versions of Windows that aren't Vista/Longhorn." as I want to ask about xp and win7, I thought it qualifies for this forum. If not, pl. direct me to correct place.

I have two hdds. In one disk (main boot disk), partition C, I have windows 7 that was working well. As I found difficulties in tuning to it, I decided to also install xp for quick work as I am quite familiar to it> I got xp installed into E drive of same HDD having windows7 at C drive. D drive is for first partition of the other HDD (2) that also has xp but that is not the main boot disk so not relevant to my question.

Now I have windows7 in C and XP2009 in E, but only Xp boots and I am not able to boot into windows7 even after putting proper entries into boot.ini file.

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 250 GB" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 250 GB" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 40 GB" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

I read at net that windows7 dosn't use boot.ini at all and some bootmgr or ntloader or something needs to be tweaked in. How to do that. I have downloaded and installed Easy BSD latest beta. As I can't boot into win7 and can boot into only xp, can I do the tweaking required for win7 from xp os? how?

Thanks.

Addendum:

Add:
I don't use any third party tool for booting. ONly using OS defaults. It is presenting the above three options at the time of booting. If I select XP boot (second option), it boots fine. If I select win7 boot (first option), it proceeds to a blank screen and then hangs.

Thanks. ]]> Legacy Windows Support vsrawat http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4977 Windows 7 reviews http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4969&goto=newpost Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:32:25 GMT Hello Everyone,

I have installed Windows 7 before 15 days and it's just amazing.Here I am sharing some experience of Windows 7.

Strengths:
So far it seems to be doing the business with the same speed as XP. Intuitive interface and navigation, uncluttered and easy to follow instructions and very nice to look at too!

Weaknesses:
Not found any yet.

Overall Evaluation:
So far so good, maybe the next worthy evolution of XP? ]]> Legacy Windows Support stuartjems http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4969 <![CDATA[Trying something, Looked around, Can't find anything]]> http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4944&goto=newpost Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:18:06 GMT I got EasyBCD when I got a new laptop recently and wanted to do a dualboot Vista with XP, XP I am currently running now. I now want to get rid of... I got EasyBCD when I got a new laptop recently and wanted to do a dualboot Vista with XP, XP I am currently running now. I now want to get rid of Vista, I don't need it anymore, but I can't seem to be able to format the C: drive with the vista and the boot files on it. What steps can I take to get this working for me? It's 47gb gone to nothing, and I'd really like to get rid of it.

Thanks,
Travis

Please HELP! It says my C: Drive is in use when I KNOW It's not. What should I do?!?!? ]]> Legacy Windows Support Nariab http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4944 Backing up dual boot Win7 / XP Pro SP3 System http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4942&goto=newpost Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:47:09 GMT Hi, I just found out that my old reliable, Novastor Novabackup, now in version 11, with Windows 7 support, will not back up the system state in a... Hi, I just found out that my old reliable, Novastor Novabackup, now in version 11, with Windows 7 support, will not back up the system state in a dual boot environment. This is not supposition, Novastor's official position is that it does not support dual boot.

So, now I'm left looking around for a way to back up and restore my system. If anyone knows of a utility or backup program that can handle this I'd appreciate the reccomendation.

I'm also wondering if Nide N' Seek might do the trick? Somehow I doubt that just hiding the partitions from each other is going to be enough to let me do a reliable full system backup.

I have imaged the entire system, though I have no way to know if even that is reliable now, but that is not a good day to day solution. That is to say, I do a nightly differential backup, once a month I do all the various updates, drivers, Window Update, etc, and after I'm satisfied that it's stable I do an incremental backup for that month. I then erase all of the differnetials except the last pre-updates one, and start the month over. ( Lucky for me I have LOTS of external space. :} )

Any day I so much as install something that gives me the least bit of trouble I just restore yesterday's system state, and poof problem goes bye bye.

So, I kinda feel like I'm flying without a chute at the moment, and any ideas / help / recommendations would be appreciated. ]]> Legacy Windows Support VaMage http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4942 Xp mode http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4910&goto=newpost Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:22:34 GMT Hello all I am using windows 7 Pro 32 bit and have been trying to install the Xp mode which my motherboard is supposed to support.If I cold boot... Hello all
I am using windows 7 Pro 32 bit and have been trying to install the Xp mode which my motherboard is supposed to support.If I cold boot into bios virtualization mode is enabled but when I try and install xp mode the setup says it is not enabled and going back into bios the setting is disabled again.
any advice will be greatly appreciated
gill
 ]]> Legacy Windows Support gill http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4910 xp password expired http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4892&goto=newpost Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:26:00 GMT I let my password expire on my lap top and cannot access it now. I am the administrator of my lap top but I do not know how to access or how to... I let my password expire on my lap top and cannot access it now. I am the administrator of my lap top but I do not know how to access or how to reset my pass word. I prefer not to wipe my hard drive clean and reinstall as I have information on my desk top that I prefer not to lose. Can you help?????

Thanks in advance.:joy: ]]> Legacy Windows Support misskitty http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4892