Now now there tabby cat....watch yer language

I don't know what yer on about. I just posted a reply that's all.

I thought we kissed and made up .......or are you still following me. That's it isn't it... you stalker you..

How do you tab to a partition? Or is that a poor attempt at humour? I like how you selectively bolded a few words just to crack yourself up that little bit more.

If your hard drive crashes in a spectacular fashion logical partitions won’t do sh*t. Unless it’s something as simple as a faulty boot sector then you’ve got minimal chance of recovery without calling in a specialist and spending lots of $’s.

With the price of hard drives being so low these days you’re mad not to throw in an extra hard drive. I’m surprised someone as knowledgeable as yourself wouldn’t advise this.

So have you got anything useful to add rather than continue carrying on like an idiot?

PS: Sorry Dags

You Tab are so so easy.

I have all my important data and Windows on 2 x 500Gb SATA drives setup in a RAID1 mirror. This means if either drive fails, the system continues to run.

I also have a spare 500gb SATA for applications and 2 x external 500Gb for backups that I alternate between work and home.

I also give the family regular DVD's of our pictures and home movies to ensure that I never loose anything. I am paranoid as I run a IT business and also lost my house/office to a fire in 1995. It was only by sheer luck I had a backup tape in the car, so I had the improtant company data.

Tried to run the repair option, but it kept asking me for a password... My user account (which is an administrator account) didn't have a password, so that left me stumped. Even after I created a password, the windows repair thingy wouldn't start, saying my password was incorrect even though I'd just created it.

Any clue what I can do, short of a full re-install?

I have all my important data and Windows on 2 x 500Gb SATA drives setup in a RAID1 mirror. This means if either drive fails, the system continues to run.

I also have a spare 500gb SATA for applications and 2 x external 500Gb for backups that I alternate between work and home.

I also give the family regular DVD's of our pictures and home movies to ensure that I never loose anything. I am paranoid as I run a IT business and also lost my house/office to a fire in 1995. It was only by sheer luck I had a backup tape in the car, so I had the improtant company data.

sounds like my setup after losing my entire photo and music collection about 6 years ago !! ive learnt to never be slack with backups and considering 500gb satas are only about $150 nowadays its cheap and easy !!

Tried to run the repair option, but it kept asking me for a password... My user account (which is an administrator account) didn't have a password, so that left me stumped. Even after I created a password, the windows repair thingy wouldn't start, saying my password was incorrect even though I'd just created it.

Any clue what I can do, short of a full re-install?

That is what I meant about it never working for me. That's as far with the "repair" function as I could get.

Sorry aniken. No other options that I am aware of other than re-install. That is certainly 1 thing that Win98 has over XP. If you reinstalled over the old, it just repaired all the corrupt files. XP's only options is quick or full format

Cheers

Aniken I just found something that may help. When you are prompted for a password, just hit enter. That is the default apparently. Something else to try. Sounds like it's a common problem.

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm

If that doesn't work, there are a couple of small programs that let you reset the admin password to blank.

I guess though you may have to use it at your own peril but it appears safe enough.

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum...n-password.html

Cheers

Do you have a different password on the account actually called 'administrator'? The only time you have probably seen it would be the first time it is installed, otherwise it's usually hidden.

Not sure about the home version of xp (if that's what you've got) but you should be able to run compmgnt.msc and change the actual administrator password through there.