Follow up on restoring XP to other hardware, esp BillW50

Follow up on restoring XP to other hardware, esp BillW50 INTRO: Anyone following my hardware problems in another thread might wonder why I don't just take my good harddrive, or even my backup files a week or two older, and install them to another ...

Message posted on the July 10th, 2011 - 8:59 AM ET

BILLW50: PLEASE REPOST IN XP GENERAL! JUST FYI! THREAD CLOSED!

OR GET RID OF ANTIBELLUM XP AND PURCHASE WINDOWS 7!

Message posted on the February 28th, 2011 - 1:15 AM ET

Re: Chkdsk/Scandisk

Bill in Co wrote: glee wrote: "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message news:jp3d4m$jeu$1@dont-email.me... In news:jp3cd4$eq5$1@dont-email.me, glee wrote: "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message ...

Message posted on the May 18th, 2012 - 12:08 AM ET

Re: Restoring an image backup to a brand new HD?

I'll add this comment to this: I think the way it should work (assuming you have two identical system drives) is, whichever one is used to boot up (probably attached to the SATA0 port?) should bootup, and normally be designated as C: That way you ...

Message posted on the March 22nd, 2012 - 5:22 PM ET

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Message posted on the March 5th, 2012 - 3:17 AM ET

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Message posted on the May 2nd, 2011 - 4:30 AM ET

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Message posted on the April 25th, 2011 - 4:30 AM ET

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Message posted on the April 11th, 2011 - 4:21 AM ET

Dan C

Dan, our old friend, Bill the bragger, is back! He is in alt.comp.os.windows-8 using BillW and/or BillW50. Have fun. ;-) John When a person has -- whether they knew it or not -- already rejected the Truth, by what means do they discern a lie?

Message posted on the February 21st, 2013 - 11:59 AM ET

Re: driver backups

Addended: Bill in Co wrote: BillW50 wrote: On 5/18/2012 2:31 PM, glee wrote: Yes... I'd like to see some detailed info from someone who has *restored* drivers backed up by one of those driver backup program, as to what is backed up exactly, how ...

Message posted on the May 18th, 2012 - 7:11 PM ET

WinME installed. What is the next step to add win2000 also?

I'm a few steps behind BeyondX in the previous win2000 thread. I too want to have dual boot, winME and win2000. WinME is running in partition C, as well as can be expected given that the latest version of some programs don't work. Now I want to ...

Message posted on the September 18th, 2011 - 10:37 PM ET

Re: Somewhat amusing floppy story

On 06/26/2011 03:22 PM, BillW50 wrote: Hi Bill, All I got was a blank page. Please resend. -T

Message posted on the June 26th, 2011 - 7:28 PM ET

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Message posted on the April 18th, 2011 - 4:28 AM ET

billw50