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Hi,
I have a friend who bought an E500 from a friend of his. I know nothing
about the machine but I'm asking these questions for him since he doesn't
have internet access with it.
It appears that the machine originally had Win98 but the friend put XP Pro
on it and made it a dual boot system and later removed Win98.
Now my friend is getting a screen that is asking if he wants to boot from
Windows XP Professional or Microsoft Windows. It halts the boot-up until he
makes a selection. Is there a way to eliminate that screen since Win98 is no
longer on the machine? BTW, if he selects Microsoft Windows then the splash
screen for Win98 flashes very briefly and then goes to the C:\ prompt.
Secondly, the friend left the file system as FAT 32. Is it possible to
re-format to NTSF without losing the data on the HD? At the present time he
doesn't have the XP disks and I don't know if he'll be able to get them so
re-installing XP may not be an option at the present time.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Joe
Hi,
I have a friend who bought an E500 from a friend of his. I know nothing
about the machine but I'm asking these questions for him since he doesn't
have internet access with it.
It appears that the machine originally had Win98 but the friend put XP Pro
on it and made it a dual boot system and later removed Win98.
Now my friend is getting a screen that is asking if he wants to boot from
Windows XP Professional or Microsoft Windows. It halts the boot-up until he
makes a selection. Is there a way to eliminate that screen since Win98 is no
longer on the machine? BTW, if he selects Microsoft Windows then the splash
screen for Win98 flashes very briefly and then goes to the C:\ prompt.
Secondly, the friend left the file system as FAT 32. Is it possible to
re-format to NTSF without losing the data on the HD? At the present time he
doesn't have the XP disks and I don't know if he'll be able to get them so
re-installing XP may not be an option at the present time.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Joe