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okay so I was told that I had to download the proper drive off of gateway to install XP onto my laptop. The kicker is that I also need an external floppy drive so that I can save the drive to a floppy and install it whilst installing XP. I was wondering if anyone knew an easier way that won't require me to buy a floppy that I'll probably only use once... Like could I hook up my computer to another computer or something and do it that way?
Almost certainly not. At that point in the install, networking drivers won't be live.Quote:
Originally posted by Rijiny
okay so I was told that I had to download the proper drive off of gateway to install XP onto my laptop. The kicker is that I also need an external floppy drive so that I can save the drive to a floppy and install it whilst installing XP. I was wondering if anyone knew an easier way that won't require me to buy a floppy that I'll probably only use once... Like could I hook up my computer to another computer or something and do it that way?
However, floppy drives aren't expensive... and if you have a geeky friend, he may well be able to lend you one. (It's ALWAYS good to have a geeky friend who keeps stock!)
Why haven't floppy disks died? I would have thought those portable usb flash drives would have completely replaced them.
Some BIOSes can boot USBMSD. Others can't. FDDs are still useful for those sorts of cases. Also I think Windows only looks at A: and nowhere else, which is equally dumb. But you might be able to get a USB FDD.Quote:
Originally posted by Savaric
Why haven't floppy disks died? I would have thought those portable usb flash drives would have completely replaced them.
Not necessarily, Rijiny. Can you post your laptop's specs so we know what kind of motherboard, etc, it has? Presumably the issue is with the hard drive controller, as that's pretty much the only thing that windows XP HAS to have the driver for while installing.
This may be too late to help you Rijiny, but here goes:Quote:
Originally posted by Rijiny
Can anyone tell me if you can transfer save files for PC games? Like on to a flash drive? I'm planning to reformat in the near future and don't want to lose my game data if I can help it.
Any time I reformat a computer, or build a new one, I save my game files. If you're not sure where the save files are saved, simply fire up the game, then save your progress, naming the save file something unique. Then just do a basic search for that unique file name using My Computer to find the folder that its games are saved to.
Doing this, I've never had a problem just simply replacing the save folder entirely. Just make sure when you reinstall the game, fire it up and save a game, again using a unique name so that you know where to put the old folder. Some games don't have a save folder until you actually save a game.
If you have one window overlapping another, is there a way to pull that window in the back to the front without moving the top window out of the way?
I've always wanted to do that...
Alt-tab might do what you want...
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I got my comp reformatted with Windows XP and now I have no sound and it says I have no sound device. :( Any suggestions on how to fix this?