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installing XP on specific hard driv
Name: ningy Date: June 28, 2006 at 15:29:10 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: 3.0 Product: compaq
Comment:
im fixing a computer for someone and he has 2 seperate hard drives. theres an english version of XP on one hard drive and a chinese version on the other hard drive.
he forgot the administrative password for the chinese version and can not log into the chinese XP. i tried to bypass the password to no avail.
i want to reinstall the chinese version of windows and make sure it installs on the right hard drive. how do i do that?
Name: Beginner1 Date: June 28, 2006 at 15:59:33 Pacific
Reply:
Well go to the english version of xp, and see which one say local drive. It should display C: drive local, that is the one that you are logged onto. Right click on the drive that doesn't say local and then click format and it should format make sure you tick quick format. After you should be able to restart and reinstall the OS Chinese version.
Jim R
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: June 28, 2006 at 17:43:32 Pacific
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You don't need to format the chinese version drive to determine which is which.
You would look at the boot.ini multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS would be the first drive multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS would be the second drive
Might want to consider a repair install of the chinese version which would recover the chinese version.
Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.
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Response Number 3
Name: GX1 Man Date: June 28, 2006 at 19:51:30 Pacific
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wanderer -
Do a repair install without the Admin password? How is that done?
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Response Number 4
Name: JoseBillBR Date: July 31, 2006 at 18:45:48 Pacific
Reply:
Well just change the password then. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
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