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v08i023: memlintok: macros to avoid lint complaints about malloc/free
Ie, install XP first but tell it to use only part of the disk? Mandrake should then quite happily install on the remainder of the disk while leaving the XP partition unaffected. This approach also has the advantage that you avoid problems with the boot loader on account of XP overwriting the MBR and stopping you

Reinstalling XP after hardware upgrade
The points I'm worried about are: XP overwriting the boot record (I know this will probably happen , as that's what 98 used to do) Yes, this will happen. Read the XP installation messages carefully to avoid this. That said, it is very poor practice to embark on such a project without having good backups

Syncing Pocket PC with XP/Vista PC
Too bad the Media Center program can't provide for overwriting those "TempRec" files so that defragmenting wouldn't be necessary. xiowan.........in tucson I am about to add another 320 GB drive for additional storage only and would like to avoid seeing the scrambled mess that shows up on the current drive.

running duel JDKs on XP
In this case, if you have backed up to the XP machine across the network you will need to re-install W98 from scratch so that you can get the system up and running, connect to the network and run the restore. Therefore, you need to be sure that the restore process can overwrite the newly installed OS with your

COLLECTED hard drive usage after XP NTFS
TK2MSFTNGXA03.phx.gbl Xref: cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windowsmedia.beta:34309 X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windowsmedia.beta Running XP Pro with nVIDIA nFORCE 2,installed the beta and windows Can't overwrite with the ver.9 or reinstall the beta. "GRRR...!" Another reason to curse betas! Avoid this. --

Installing win98 se after windows xp
If you're working w/ a new HD and starting from scratch, NOW'S the time to invest in a quality boot loader and avoid a LOT of the problems you see on this and other similar NGs. Once that's done, do I overwrite the Windows XP MBR with RedHat's GRUB, or do I write GRUB to the first sector of the HD?

Can I use FP 2000 with Office 2003?
Does XP uses the same boot loader of NT? I always put it on the linux partition (as Slackware subtly suggests) and avoid the MBR. Bot will work. XP essentially uses the same Will it overwrite the xp bootloader? Perfect ... you won't overwrite anything. You're just adding another option to the bootloader.

Upgrade from 98 to XP
To avoid the problem in the future I bought and install Drive Image 7. - - - - - - edit- - - - - - Jimmy Do not use the Image browser for restoring a system but just for restoring PQDI will whinge about "overwrite existing" etc etc because PQDI is defaulted to only write to "free space", pay no attention to it.

how to uninstall updates from Win XP Professional
If the Win9x boot sector is there, Win2K/XP Setup copies it to a new file, C:\bootsect.dos, before overwriting the Drive C: boot sector with WinNT-style code. (If you have a disk editor tool .... I wanted to do it to avoid XP being the second or third or whatever partition adn getting upset as I describe above.

Homelink LAN w/ XP-Home and '98
I need to run 2 version of java JVM/JDKs , 1.4.x and 1.5 on the same XP machine but have different programs running using the different JVMs/JDK compiles. Avoid using the system32 java.exe, since, as you point out, installers can overwrite it. Install your JREs/JDKs into separate directories, and whenever you

ADM file dates XP + Win2k - which to use?
If you are wanting to do backups to CDRW disks and overwrite old disks with new data then you have no choice, you will have to move to a third party program be it Nero, Roxio, or some other package. This is because there is no packet writing capability built into Windows XP. The Windows XP CD writing capability is

Overwriting typing in IE and OE.
I allowed the system to read the XP Pro CD and reinstalled it. Woops! There went my "my documents" files. Woops! There went all of our emails and address book so as to avoid overwriting your old install's account data. eg in my example above of visitor, when i create the account "visitor" on my new install of

To keep, or not to keep, that is the question...
You can only overwrite, not destroy @data. In that case, MS should go ahead and compress the files. It shouldn't be difficult: write all the data to the How am I supposed to avoid it? It is beginning to sound as if you don't have the problem- your Win98 machines, which *are* vulnerable to this- work fine.

XP Upgrade Setup disc won't detect existing XP OS for repair
I didn't even have to do the FS9.1 update when I installed 2004 in my machine, and I have win xp home SP2 even with 512 MB of ram and 2.8 dual core CPU, and 128 mb video cars this sucker Hi capn,, No, you just overwrite the original fs9.exe, mate - and the new one is quite a bit smaller than the original one.

Nero or XP, that is the "burning" question.
Columns.Count) = "*" End With End Sub -- Dana DeLouis Windows XP & Office XP = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "Dave Peterson" <ec35...@msn.com> wrote in message news:3E8E2C03.FF863BB3@msn.com... I think this might be better (to avoid overwriting the last column <bg>): Sub corner() x = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.

Upgrading motherboard
I realize, realistically, that this may be a huge task if one is to avoid a group command: the regbackup file was more than 2000 pages in Word and still loading! 2 the DLLs: I can save those, reload them to \windows after installation with care of no overwrite. Or is this really a tight rope?

folder missing from "files stored on this computer"
I am assuming in the above that the DLLs are 'native' to XP and are not installed on my development system as part of the VB 5/6 installations. I have the option of going back and doing distribution on an ME systems, so that only DLL's from the ME system are distributed, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.

Weird Orcad with MS VS install prob - no patch at orcad
Install XP or some network utility on first boot partition that can share second partition over the network. 3. Configure boot.ini on C: on device to boot ARC name of If you configured the target system as a multi- boot device, avoid overwriting the Boot.ini file on drive C to retain multi-boot capability.

Can Publisher2000 and Office XP coexist?
I've created the setup on an XP-machine. Running it on a Win2k, XP, 95/98/ME machine gives no problems at all. But running it on a NT4 workstation was not I found a tricky way to avoid setup from overwriting system dll's. maybe it'll help you: The idea is that the setup checks for the version of the dll's on

NTLDR missing error -can't boot
For instance, it could be that you would be required to overwrite a file in order to complete the installation, and yet the OS is going to repair that file on the following boot. This turns out to be one of the reasons to avoid old software when possible. MS is moving their OS to a standard where common (shared)