wintask

[mouse1]

Hi folks...
Just a question agoiut wintask..I see that PC Mech.advertises this program and was wondering if anyone has used it,and could give me a blow by blow on whether it is worth buying and using....Because this morning when I turned on my computer it took nearly 15 minutes for it to boot to the main desk top screen....I need help...(I used msconfig for startup)and everything was the same as yesterday,I did virus scan,both Nortons and house call and turned up nil...also did spybot and adaware.nada...TIA... GaryD...

[glc]

You might want to run diags on your hard drives. I've seen this happen - and it's a dying hard drive.

[mouse1]

Originally Posted by glc You might want to run diags on your hard drives. I've seen this happen - and it's a dying hard drive.

Sounds good but thats something I have never done,can this be done with maxblast,or should I download the utility from maxtor website....

[rjfvillarosa]

Download and run PowerMax from the maxtor web site, it's a great little tool you run in DOS and it is very good at it's job.

[mouse1]

Originally Posted by rjfvillarosa Download and run PowerMax from the maxtor web site, it's a great little tool you run in DOS and it is very good at it's job.

Ok I D/L'd Powermax4.09 ran it came up clean,did a chkdisk came up clean....But this morning when I try'd to boot up all goes well thru the startup all the way to desktop screen then it goes to a blue screen,a lot of numbers---Kmode_exception_not_handled
dumping physical memory to disk---more nubers,like, 8041d6ef-base at 800400000-41773335-ntsokrnl.exe.and then a count down 1-99. this may not be the exact order they apear but they are some of the numbers....this happens over and over no full boot....Whats up here...TIA....-- GaryD..

[glc]

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBD/tip1800/rh1897.htm

Not looking too good - may be time for a repair reinstall.

[mouse1]

Originally Posted by glc http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBD/tip1800/rh1897.htm Not looking too good - may be time for a repair reinstall.

when doing a repair install with an upgrade disk is it the same as a full install disk,because all I have is an upgrade disk...thanks....GaryD..

[glc]

No difference. See my thread in Tips and Tricks about moving a Win2K hard drive, obviously you can't do the preparations if it won't boot, but the repair reinstall works the same way.

[mouse1]

thanks glc.gonna give it a shot...

[glc]

Just thought of something - you need a slipstreamed CD or you will lose your 200gb drive!

[mouse1]

Originally Posted by glc Just thought of something - you need a slipstreamed CD or you will lose your 200gb drive!

Now in making a slipsteamed cd,I have copied my 2K disk to a folder on my C: drive,now what files do I copy to that folder to maintain updates and to be able to see 200 gig drive, I can give you a screenshot of my C: drive if that would help..I forgot to mention that this darn thing booted right up this morning with no stop errors,BUT,I dont seem to have any of my USB capabilities....so I think I will go ahead and do a repair reinstall anyway...

[glc]

You will need the network install of SP4, it's a 125mb download. If you have the Feb 2004 MS Security CD, you can copy it off of that. Slipstreaming will incorporate SP4 into the files you have copied, and then you burn a new CD.

Here is the procedure I used - it's for XP SP2 but works fine for 2K SP4, just change what's appropriate.

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/Windo...p2-bootcd.html

[mouse1]

I bookmarked the URL,now to study it so's to comprehend what it means,I'm a little slow...

[glc]

It's not exactly a no brainer - maybe someone has a link to something that makes it easier and more hands off. I didn't have any problems with it, but I know my way around DOS, isobuster, and Nero.

[mouse1]

Well the slipstream thing was way over my head,so I just did an over the top install,I have sp4 on disk and also have large LBA stored on the extra hard drive...got it all back and running AGAIN,still loading progs tho,I do want to thank you glc for trying to help me through this....GaryD