Well, it was all going fine before a few other members started voicing their unwanted opinions. Stumpy and Travis , thanks for your help earlier on today . Essencay, screw you. Bye.
Hehe, I think you're right . Can anyone offer any help?
Ha! I worked for near 6 months worth of weekends to get that kind of cash!
c242, I don't really care what you think, you haven't offered me any help, in fact all you have done is flamed ... what good have you done here?
Please, Kona, give it a go .
for around $100 Still not exactly loose change...
Kona, please, if you can help me, do so.
Kona, I do understand where you're coming from on the legality of it all. I know I could have bought it, yes. But as said above, it's a lot of money for something is just as easily gained via a crack. An answer to my problem would really be appreciated.
Hilarious (!) Maybe if I had had an extra $299 (whatever that converts to in Pounds) after buying a £800 machine, plus £200 for a monitor and the cost of other peripherals, I might have bought an official copy. I have a proper copy on this machine, but $299 is a lot of money for a seventeen year old ...
It was a personal choice to use a crack version of an OS, I hadn't done before, but now I have. I personally don't think I've done anything wrong, whether or not you feel like that is not the issue. All I want, if your willing to give it, is your help on my problem, which isn't anything to do with the officiality of my copy of XP.
Travis ... wtf? Anyway, back to the problem. I can't gain any access to my C: drive ... all I get is 'Invalid drive specification' or 'bad command or filename', it's as if it isn't there .
Hahaha, nothing wrong with using a cracked Micro$oft product . Nothing is physically wrong with it, just one unrelated incident . Why can't the rest of you guys be as friendly as Stumpy and Travis .
Since I have a a *coughcrackedcough* copy of XP, I'll wait until later tonight so I can get hold of a copy. I'll report in then to let you know what happened .
Help. With aid of Stumpy's link above, I've managed to boot up in DOS, but am not getting anywhere with the ntoskrnl file. I've tried copying a fresh version of the file onto a cd and using the replace command through DOS (unless I'm doing it wrong ), but to no avail. I really don't want to
Just when I thought I had seen the last of you ... All of disks were copied to fine, but when I come to put the first one in and reboot, I get to the screen saying "checking you system for hardware blah blah blah .." and then it restarts. So, as you can see, there is no way for me to access the disks .
Thanks for the tip . As soon as I get everything up again, I'll d/l Stardock.
Never mind I got it.
And to say that ThemeXP.org came highly recommended > . Thanks for the help, guys. Goddamn I feel like such a noob, but the dos bootdisk file is too big for a floppy ... and if I'm right then I won't be able to run it from a cd, right? (it's the XP SP1 file) Have patience with me .
I was using the top one:- http://www.themexp.org/search.php?txt=crack&op=title
Basically, I followed these instructions:- 1. Backup (copy) the file %windir%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe (most likely C:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe - the boot screen) 2. Download the .zip to your computer 3. Extract ntoskrnl.exe to a directory other than %windir%\system32 (most likely C:\windows\system32) 4. Reboot your computer into Safe Mode (hit F8
And no, I didn't, I simply unzipped the folder containing the file and straight forward replaced it.
As said above, I cannot reboot in safe mode, nor with command prompt. Thanks for posting though .
*the original file being the Ntoskrnl.exe
*Cries* Hello all, hope you can help. A couple of hours ago, I downloaded my first ever Bootskin. Thinking I was doing well, I made a backup of the original file, restarted in safe mode, and installed my new skin as instructed. However, when I came to reboot to test it out, I got up to the boot screen, it finished doing its business and then my PC decides it wants to restart. I am stuck in this loop with it restarting as soon as the boot screen is done, and I can't even start
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