my dad bought the WG311 v3 wireless adapter from netgear for his computer. after installing the software it disabled user switching and logon…only the administrator that installed the software could logon. it said I had to uninstall the software so I did and next time I tried to find a way to just install the device driver without the software…well I did and then windows wouldent boot…it said NTLDR missing so I booted from the XP disc to do a repair…I ran bootfix…it didnt work. then I ran mbrfix(master boot record) and that didnt work…I also copied ntldr and ntdetect to root from XP cd. now here I am with the harddrive in my computer on vista and Im looking at the drive with computer management\disc management and it shows the drive as a single partition with 76.33GB FAT file system (which is correct) but if you explore the drive or check its properties it says there is only 10MB total space with 3.4MB used the only files on the drive are ntldr and ntdetect
wyntry is absolutely right(I especially like your reply to dwight lol) but I ran out of text space for the original question(evil 1000 character limit)…anyway as for that downloadable hotfix I did find that and wanted to use it but I made the mistake of researching the problem after trying to fix it myself and thanks to that wrongly installed driver I cant boot to windows to install the fix. thing is…I was going to reinstall XP but as I mentioned b4 even tho it is an 80GB HD and disc manager sees that…explorer itself only sees it as 10MB and when I go to install XP thats all it sees as well. so it wants me to format the drive but thats not an option for me as there are important things on the disc…is there a way to access the data so I can copy it to my HD’s on my computer so I can reformat the drive safely and then reinstall XP? that looks like what Im gonna have to end up doing…I just dont know how to access the "vanished" data on the drive…
Windows installation and seemingly whole harddrive ruined thanks to a retarded wireless adapter from netgear?
i just got this email…is it for real?
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Registry Cleaner help?
Okay, I really need some help choosing some registry cleaners. I have Maplestory, Solider Front, and Combat Arms, but I only really play MS, but my cousin often comes over and plays SF and CA. So, now my PC is all jacked up. It can be really slow, that I often have to restart the PC in order to connect to the internet. Don’t reply saying that I should uninstall it because I’m not. Are there any good Registry Cleaners that are pretty good, and is a freeware? I have CCleaner, but it doesn’t find much errors, when other "professional" cleaners can scan up to 3000 problems on my PC, but are way too pricey. Please, I need registry cleaners and defragmentors that are freeware and does pretty god job on it. Remember: I have CCleaner already, and it’s not really good.
i currently have a problem with my windows vista, and as a suggestion in from the microsoft community informed me that i should try repairing it by using a back up disk of windows, but my windows software was pre-installed , so i dont actually have a back up CD. add the fact that windows home premium doesnt support the whole PC back up function. do i really need to get a new OS? or can i download a clean version of it somewhere, without necessarily pirating one. the suggestion mentioned something like "performing a repair installation or an in-place upgrade"
here’s the link to the suggestion for the repair, if anyone has a better suggestion or a way to help me do the suggestion, by all means reply. hehe..thanks in advance 😀
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistaappearance/thread/d3a771cd-52a7-4a06-9c71-37beeaf77707
Hello Everyone,
In the last 2-3 months, I have been installing and uninstall some software from the internet, things like Tortorrent download tools, software tools, Eclipse, NetBeans, Quick timer, iTunes.. etc.. a lot of them. Then after using them, I have uninstalled a few cuz I realized I no more need them. Now my Pc is running very slow. Also I faced a problem where this ccsvhost.exe (Norton related) stuff would eat up all the memory and cpu, I just found a work around I open up norton then disabled few kind of scans like messanger and such stuff or background scan, that helped me from norton slowing down the system. Having done all this good lot of crap.. Now I am feeling I need to clean up my registry. I understand that I am trying to install one more tool, but any tool that is worth installing and that might clean up my registry, without bothering me to buy the software in the middle of its job? I mean it totally annoys when it says so many issues are identified with your registry, but plz subscribe for it to further clean up :(. .. It will be a great help if anyone of you help me with this.
Thank you in advance.
Hi all, Thanks to you all for the reply.
I just used Advance System Care free ware, so far so good, I will see for a day or two and if it looks fine then shall update again with the observations and then try the suggestions by other guys.
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