Recent content by TKR99

Appreciate that, but that particular result requires a paid fee to view :(. Plus I was sort of hoping for some personal viewpoints on some of these scanners as even reviews don't always make for an easy choice (least not for me). But I appreciate your taking the time to hunt. I promise I've...

I make my own handmade cards & use digital papers for producing many backgrounds to layer the card designs onto, as well as creating my own digital papers. However, if I scan anything using my current HP Scanjet 3300C and then print the colours never come out as they should. While I know much...

I've got a home build PC with a FoxConn MB and 4 MB RAM using onboard sound & graphics but I've sadly got a brain block on the full spec & now can't access the machine to check it so apologies for that, as I know it makes the job harder Basically I booted up this morning and initially it...

Thanks SO much guys - seems it's their scanner that's the culprit. Now that they've finally figured that out at least they're on the path to a final solution. We all truly appreciate your input as I was just too brain dead to think straight in suggesting how to fix the thing, and it would have...

Just coming back to progress on this issue if possible. They've now undertaken the VipRE scan and reported no errors/viruses etc were detected so wondering what the next step might be? While I managed to stop the sound from happening apparently there's an icon for hardware being...

Hi Expert - thanks for the info, but I ended up just reinstalling XP as it was the simplest option ultimately. All sorted now anyway but aprpeciate you taking the time to respond. Thanks.

Thanks for such a speedy reply Don & for your suggestion. I'll do that indeed & come back to you - might take a few days as they don't live close to me & our schedules are a bit busy, but as soon as I get some info I'll return & provide it. Many thanks. Romayne

Hi all I'm trying to help out some friends of mine who're not overly PC savvy & who've run into a problem that I'm equally at a loss to help them with. I appreciate, before I ask, that it may be equally tough for anyone here to know how to track down the problem, but hope that perhaps the info...

Hi Don The info came from the fixmbr program I accessed through the Recovery Console on the disk - it basically stated NOT to go ahead with the fix unless you were unable to access the partitions anyway (which I am through Win 7), plus warned as I said of the danger of causing problems that...

Just to wrap up on this one - I've now tried numerous different fixes to sort this problem out but for whatever reason none worked - the only one I didn't feel happy attempting was fixing the MBR (even though this appears to be corrupted) as it gave a lot of warnings about maybe damaging...

Thanks Cat but yes, that was the type of repair I did try but which now won't complete for some reason. However, I might give it one more go at the weekend when I've more time & energy to put into it. Will keep you posted. :)

Thanks WHS - certainly sounds worth a go. The OS isn't exceptionally vital in being my secondary/test/backup one but as I said, would be nice to recover it if possible. Appreciate your help & input. Romayne

Sadly the repair didn't quite go as desired. First time around the (repair) installation hung at 99% with a slew of files not being able to be copied - after about the 10th one I figured it was likely a dirty disc so popped it out, cleaned it, back in & the installation completed. Only problem...

Ahh - good to know - will at least know what to do if needs be. Thanks, Romayne

I don't use a Boot manager to switch between the 2 OS' - instead use F11 at startup & select the XP drive when I want to load it. But I appreciate there may still be some additional work to do once I get it functional again - just have to wait & see. Will be tomorrow afternoon before I tackle it.