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Heeh heres my problem.Rainbow six is not compatible with xp and i was wondering if i could get an exploit that would make it compatible wiht xp home.

Thanks, hank

Posted by Kbasa Heeh heres my problem.Rainbow six is not compatible with xp and i was wondering if i could get an exploit that would make it compatible wiht xp home. Thanks, hank

Download MS Virtual PC - install it - setup a 32MB P200 as a virtual PC - install windows 95 - play away. That's how I play it. I love that game.

Awsome thanks!!!!I just bought it and didnt read that compatibility didnt work with xp.THanks alot!

Sorry, that's pretty over simplified - it took me a few hours to get it to work right. VirtualPC kicks ass for this sort of thing though.

Hey can we keep talking about illegal software from your FTp down to a minimum, dont really want some asshole from microsoft to get on here and fuck us...Anyway bottomline pm each other about Pirated software. Thanks. Im not trying to be an asshole or anything but i dont really want to get anyone on here in trouble with pirated stuff.

-Hank

Hey Kommandant how do i get an os on the virtual pc thing, it says that the program only runs on xp pro and 2000 pro, could that be a problem? i only have xp home what should do?

XP Home shouldn't be a problem for it - but you can always install XP Pro- once you get virtual PC installed it will walk you through configuring a virtual pc - you can give it access to drives and such on your PC - once the virtual pc is built you should be able to install Win98 or whatever from a drive on your system. I know it's a bit confusing but it should work.

I've got a computer I'm playing with some, and I haven't done any work with drives for a while, I just want to confirm this - if I have two IDE buses (right termainology, right?) each needs it's own master, right?

You should have 2 IDE controllers (on standard PC2000 spec systems) - each one has a master and a slave for a total of 4 devices.

They are usually referred to as Primary (supposed to be color coded blue on standard PC2000 spec systems) and Secondary (Black on PC2000 Spec systems).

If you are dealing with a generic ATX motherboard it should be PC2000 spec - if you are dealing with dell/gateway/compaq stuff lord have mercy on your soul - they opted out of the PC spec program back in 2002 so they may only have a single controller and the color coding may not be standard - you'll have to find their user manuals to figure out what is what if it's not labaled legibly on the board itself.

FYI - I actually wrote a chunk of the pc2000 spec when I worked for HP...

I have a compaq for testing operating systems i had to instal a new HDD omg all the connecters are black on the IDE cable.Your wouldnt know witch is master or slave. Then they throw in a cable for a floppy drive that only supports one. Compaq sucks cases are way to small to work in too.

O.k., controller, not bus. I know which one is which, and that is all good and fine. Anybody know if there are settings for a jumper on a hard drive (to select slave/master/cable select) which are kind of standard? I have 4 spots for it, and I am assuming one is just for storing the jumper/an extra. If anybody knows which spot (closest to ide cable=... closest to power=..., etc.) generally has which setting, that would be helpfull.

Thanks

varies by manufacturer actually - It should be labeled on the drive - the 3 jumpers you have are probably Cable Select - Master - Slave. Leaving the jumnper off entirely usually makes it cable select.

Just go to the manufacturers site - look it up by part number.

I know how bad those compaq cases can be - I gutted a case once and mounted everything in a big blob of electical insulation foam. It looked like a big giant poo with computer bits sticking out of it - I'll see if I still have the pictures somewhere.

Best Compaq I ever owned - 486/66 32MB RAM - 1MB VLB Video 120MB Hard Drive - no sound... 28k modem - looked like a giant poo...Those were the days.

HAha ive seen pictures of computers like that.

My new HDD i just got segate 120gig IDE had "cable select, slave, master, limiter(limits the HDD to around 36gigs for lagecy bios and such)". I put it in my compaq witch had lagacy bios so i could only use 36gb.

Ouch!

Need help formatting a drive in Win98.

I put in a 8 gig HD, mac formatted, it shows up in windows, but will not allow me to format it, because windows says it doesnt have enough memory avalible, when I try and do it in dos, I have no luck - dos doesnt seem to recognize it. I cant get it to show up in fdisk, except if windows is running while dos is, and I cannot format it still under either windows or dos.

Advice?

Try partition magic 8 that could work....Does the computer have and operating system on it already? Or is this a fresh install?

It's an existing install - not a new OS. I haven't had any luck, I will probobly just throw it in a mac and format it for pc, and then put it back in my pc.

GO for it, but partition magic is nice.