DosFreak

It sounds like you copied all of the CD's to your hard drive... Then you started autoplay from the disc 1 copied to your hard drive... Next when it asked for CD2 you put in the CD? Why didn't you point to where you copied CD2 on your hard drive?

http://www.compatdb.org/support/topics/158592_sims_2_problem_solving_part_deux,3.html

Take it out and stick it in your computer. If your computer still doesn't see it download the Ultimate Boot CD, run the TestDisk program and see if it can find your partition.

Supposedly the Known Dlls Wrapper will do it: http://www7.atwiki.jp/win2000/pages/17.html Don't know what the procedure for installing Media Player 11 on 2000 to use the wrapper files would be though.

Look at the CD and see if it's dirty. If it is then clean it. If not then the CD could possibly be bad. Put the CD in another computer and try copying all of the files on the CD to the hard drive. If they copy then the CD is likely fine. Oh BTW the following is on the first post of the first page: Quote: 5. Q: The install halts at XX%! A: This may be because of a bad/dirty CD. Check the CD for scratches or dirt. If none then the CD may be bad. Try the CD in another computer. If you still have the same problem then try the suggestions posted above.

Try 95 compatibility mode on the Windows version. Use DOSBox for the DOS version.

You need to go to the HP website and download the drivers. XP probably doesn't have your network card drivers so just download them on another computer. Copy them over to your laptop and install them. Now surf to the HP web site and download all of the drivers for your laptop. Usually HP will send recovery media for your laptop (along with drivers) for a small fee. This version of XP will activate with the laptop whereas the version you got with the HD will most likely have to activate with Microsoft.

Usually you can go to Windows Update and it will download the driver for you. If not you can just go to the manufacturer of your laptop's website and download the drivers.

Well we can't give you a code....

Guess MS was listening to all of the complaints from their Technet/MSDN customers. Scroll down to "Top Subscriber Downloads" http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx

Use IE7Pro Enabled Ad/Flash blocking in IE Pro. Never click on any ads or popups. Make sure your not running with Admin rights. Install spybot and Immunize your system. (Blacklisting isn't that great but when it blocks thousands of sites it does help a little). Use common sense. In summary the best antispyware worth having is yourself.

Found this: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~gnudawn/johnny/ Don't know why you'd want to waste the energy for a "Screen Saver" though.

I suppose you could always rename it and then rename it back if you have issues. I can't really help you with Ghost since I ditched that back whenever Ghost32 came out and I ditched Ghost32 when Acronis True Image came out so it's been quite some time since I used the DOS version of Ghost. It's possible that you've hit some size limit that Ghost doesn't recognize but I'm just guessing.

Most integrated graphics cards are not very powerful and are not fully compliant with the latest DirectX. The first thing to do would be to upgrade the drivers for the onboard video card. The second thing would be to turn off or lower all of the graphics options for the game to see if it would work then. What kind of Video card is it? If you don't know then what is the manufacturer of the computer and the model number?

http://www.compatdb.org/support/topics/115222_carmageddon_2_carpocalypse_now.html#Post179207

I've done alot of slipstream installs with it but I haven't done any upgrades of existing systems except for one yesterday that worked fine. It was on an IBM Netvista machine which seems to have had a hacked copy of Dell XP SP2 installed on it. I installed SP3 on it to see if it would complain about that but it never did and after it was done the install was still activated! I'm still wiping the machine and putting 2000 on it to be compliant. I tried to stay away from SP upgrades on client machines if I can help it. Most of the time they are so spyware infested it's just easier to do a clean install. At my work we are uprgrading machines as they come in for repair (not me though I tend to wait about 3 months before doing SP upgrades). I am pushing out laptops with the slipstreamed install of SP3 and that seems to be going fine. No issues.

Probably a combination of system restore and SP3 creating a backup and also copying a copy of SP3 into your windows directory. This is why those who care about Windows installation size slipstream the SP's into their discs and install from them otherwise when you install the SP it will take up extra space on your system. In this day and age you shouldn't really care that much about 1gb of used space unless you intentionally put Windows on an extremely starved for space partition (unless you have no choice like an EE PC but in that situation you should really use an slipstream disc with Nlite)

Make sure that you are using DOSBox 0.72. You may also want to change DOSBox to use normal core instead of Auto.

How did you mount the C:\ drive in DOSBox? Windows needs to be in C:\Windows so you need to mount a "C:\" So on your host computer you'd have directory "C:\DOS\Windows". In DOSBox you'd do a "Mount c c:\DOS".

Hmm, I'd disconnect the HD and then see if your other CD's boot. If they do then you know for sure that it's an HD issue. The only time I've seen the HD affecting booting from CD's is if both the CDROM and HD are on the same channel or if the CD checks for the MBR on the HD and then does something different. (Ex: 2000/XP/2003 CD's will go straight to setup if no MBR is detected whereas if it does detect one then it asks you to press a key).

Well you can have multiple AV software installed as long as they both do not do real-time scans. For the paranoid using two different AV software to scan your system would theoretically be more thorough but in practice not really. In the real-world most rootkits/new viruses wouldn't be detected anyway. CCLeaner is a great piece of software. No need to be afraid of it but it won't do anything to get rid of spyware/viruses. The first thing to do with that computer if at all possible would be to restore a clean image. If an image isn't available then it'll have to be wiped and reinstalled. If none of those are possible then I recommend uninstalling Norton and buying Kaspersky or NOD32 antivirus. (You cannot use the free AV software in a business environment....at least not permanently). Once the AV software is installed and the AV defintions are updated then the computer should be rebooted into safe mode (with no network support) and a full scan should be done. Ideally you'd use a BartPE/WinPE cd to boot off of and scan the computer but most people do not have those. (You can download the Ultimate Windows Boot CD and create your own very easily though). What it all comes down to though is that once a computer is compromised there is no way to 100% guarantee that the system is fully clean unless you wipe it and reinstall. It doesn't matter if every AV/Spyware cleanining program in the world confirms that the computer is clean.....they only know as much as what is in their current definitions. Usually you can get away with not bothering with a wipe if the spyware/virus activity was minimal or if it just happened, if it was more than minimal or if it's been infected for a long time it's best to wipe it.

Also install the TweakUI powertoy and turn off AutoRun. If using Vista then you can disable AutoRun in the Control Panel.

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