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have a presario 1275 laptop - try to boot after installing windows 98 and it gives me an error reading: "Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. C:\Windows\system\vmm32.vxd: Missing/unable to load." thanks in advance.

just to offer the pessimistic perspective (i had to suffer through this) - is there any chance the mobo or something like that got shorted?

thanks, that actually did work.

okay, heres whats up: i just totally zero'ed my 20 gig maxtor hd, and now when i go to restart and boot from my xp pro disk, i get this error saying "NTLDR is missing, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart." anyone got a solution to this? also, i should probably add that the file system im...

in that case, can we at least give it a shot for like a week or so and if theres not a whole lot of activity, you can just get rid of it and go back to the way it is now? paintball was a very popular forum before, and a lot of people posted in it.

Could we please ressurect this forum under the [H]obbies category? Mota was a mod for this last time, and I know a lot of us that'd like to bring it back...somehow it seems like it should be apart from sports/recreation.

no offense taken. i dont have too much experience with working with drives and such, but i got it to work, i just ended up setting the different drives on primary and secondary IDE cables. had to unplug my cd rom drive and use my usb one instead lol

Hey guys, Recently my Dad's laptop just shorted out, and we managed to salvage his 6GB HD from it. I have a spare Maxtor 20GB hard drive lying around, and I need to copy the information over onto the big one. The problem is that when I set up the IDE cables so that the 20GB is the master and...