Newbie needs help!!!

[Guest]

After formatting the hard drive and loading windows 2k i got this "setup has found a compressed volume or a disk-cache utility on your computer. quit setup and check your compressed volume with your disk compression software or remove disk-cache utility the run set up again. Also when loading photoshop it told me that, you currently have adobe photoshop scratch and windows primary paging file on the same volume which can result in reduced performance. It is recommmended that you set adobe photoshop primary scratch volume to a different volume preferably a different physcial drive...the computer is a pcchip 810 series motherboard with a athlon 850 i have named crashomatic...and help would be greatly appreciated....i know we newbies are a pain in the ass....

 

[hypnotic_kumquat]

Are you sure you were installing 2000? I took a quick peek at Technet and only came up with an article related to 95. See: <A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q166/4/66.ASP" target="_new">http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q166/4/66.ASP</A>

If you don't care what's on the disk, delete and create partitions using the 2000 setup program (when it's in the pre-GUI phase.)

Regarding your "Photoshop scratch" and pagefile locations, if you only have one physical hard drive, then don't worry about this message. If you have two (or more) HD's, move one or the other of the files to a different phyical drive. To move the page file, you have to be logged in with administrator priviledges, then righ-click My Computer. Goto properties, then the Advanced tab, Performance Options, Change (vitrual memory), select the drive you want the pagefile on, then put in 2 X RAM (e.g. put in 256 if you have 128MB RAM) size in both inital size and maximum size fields, then click Set, OK, yadda yadda...

"Let's take the warning labels off everything and let natural selection clean the gene pool!"

 

[Guest]

Heh. Just had to say I love your sig! Do the idiots that use dynamite for fishing really need to be remined that it's a bad idea? I think not.

As for help with your problem...umm do what he said. Just a newbie note: if you're going to dual boot with Win2K and Win9x, make sure you install Win9x first. If you install Win2K first, Win9x will wipeout your MBR and you won't be able to boot Win2K. I know from experience and it's a major pain in the ass.

Sarcasm maybe the recourse of a weak mind,
But it can be funny as hell.

 

[Guest]

Try this advice for your setup problem:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000283.htm

I bet it's a compression problem.

jostber@frisurf.no

 

[hypnotic_kumquat]

Dynamite shouldn't require a permit, either.

Unlike 95, Windows 98 recognizes (and won't kill) the NT/2000 boot sector. It will even put an entry in the boot.ini so that you see an option for 'Microsoft Windows' (98) when you startup your PC.

-hyp

"Let's take the warning labels off everything and let natural selection clean the gene pool!"

 

[Guest]

Win98 will kill the Win2K MBR. I know from experience.

Sarcasm maybe the recourse of a weak mind,
But it can be funny as hell.

 

[hypnotic_kumquat]

Hmmm... I had 98 & W2K installed. 98 starting hosing up, so I deleted the windows directories (didn't format the partition) and ran setup from scratch & it didn't fool with the MBR.

Without digging too far, I'm guessing this will only work in this particular case. I haven't tried a brand new install of 98 after w2k was up.

"Let's take the warning labels off everything and let natural selection clean the gene pool!"