System Admin

Lol. XP does the same thing to Linux then it sees it!

Thank you for the suggestion. The problem appears to coincide with this message: "The COM+ Event System detected a corrupt IEventSubscription object. The COM+ Event System has removed object ID {71EDA56F-317A-11D2-98A9-00C04F8EE1C4}-{41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. The subscriber will no longer be notified when the event occurs." Any ideas? I'll have to root around now that you've given me a clue. Thanks again, Marc

Thanks a lot for the reply, but I'm gonna have to wait a bit. I tried a third-party bootloader (Bootmagic or something) and it fried my MBR. XP refused to load and RHL simply restarted my system. RHL setup said that my disk geometry is messed up. Didn't know what that meant but it didn't sound good. Well, now I'm back to Win98 :( and my parents aren't too keen on Linux, so I'll just put XP on this machine and try out Linux again in college. A few days was enough to get me super-excited about projects like Gnome and Mono. Programmer's paradise! :)

Don't write buggy code? I have no problem at all creating software for 98/Me/NT4/W2K/XP. We dropped 95 for some API reasons. Chances are you are depending on versions of DLLs that you shouldn't. Many times this is COMCTL32 (which is well documented so you only have yourself to blame.) Are you depending on SHLWAPI? Also not available on all versions of the operating systems and also well documented. You depending on them having IE6 installed? MDAC? MFC? CRTL? Tim Smith "Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we can not avoid it... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather that part of the solution." Hoare - 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture

Have you specified on your program which interface you want to use? :) Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)

Frank Deo wrote: Do you have ZoneAlarm, or any other PC Firewall running No, nothing of that. IE seems to recognze them as "can be displayed in-place", like it does/can do with Office documents, or Acrobat .PDF's. (Acrobat reader has an option to turn this off, so I hope I can find the same for OE) You don't need to sleep to see a nightmare  Anne Clark   [sighist]

"Problems that go away by themselves come back with friends" Anonymous Concussus surgo. When struck I rise.

You can install MSDE instead of SQL Server on your client machine. MSDE is the desktop version of SQL Server and is rather nice for developing applications targetted at SQL Server. Michael :-) Look, try and use your intelligence, man, even if you are a politician. - The Doctor

Are u sure that your hd partition is primary and then the flag is set to active? Fred Senior developer - C++/MFC/SQL

Thanks! I appreciate it. :cool: William

Not really an OS, rather DOS

It also checks for lost clusters, which usually happen when an abnormal shutdown has occured. These are areas on the disk that are reported as occupied by files, but they're actually not associated with any files. They simply take up room on the HD - room that you cannot use for your own files - unless you get rid of those clusters using scandisk. In some operating systems like Windows NT-based, lost clusters are reduced to a minimum by making sure that any IO operation, made by the system, must report its completion to the operating system, or it will be canceled and rolled-back at boot time. /=/=/=/= Deus /=/=/=/=

Use an imaging utility like Ghost, to store your system's partition (drive C:) onto some accessible share on a computer. Afterwards, go to the other computer, put the new HD inside, and boot it with a network-enabled boot diskette. Connect to the share where your HD's image is, and dump it on the new HD. Ghost will compensate for any size diffs of the HD's. You can ask Ghost to enlarge the partition size as it dumps the image on the disk. /=/=/=/= Deus /=/=/=/=

RicardS wrote: Did I miss something? Should I have changed some options in the setup? I would check that I have the IDE cable plugged into the motherboard and the back of the CD drive correctly. The side of the cable with the coloured line on it should be next to pin 1. Next I would check to see that the BIOS can see the drive. Make sure that the IDE 1 Master/Slave is enabled (which ever you have the drive setup as). If all of this is correct then Windows should see the drive no problems and load all required software drivers automatically. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "In Summer, I like to dance naked on the roof to celebrate the event of the temperature finally falling below 40C (usually about midnight). But the neighbors have lately taken up the habit of staying up late. And looking up, at times, from their dreary, pointless lives..." - Roger Wright 15/05/2002

Using Ghost maybe ? Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)

You can't be a member of a domain using XP home, but you can in PRO. This is the reason MS bill Pro as a professional OS.