After cleaning Registry, my wife's FinWin2005b is working fine except it is constantly loosing MIDI both in and out, the out being Finale SoundFont, by the way. If it were just 'in' then I'd look for MIDI interface and input device, but I am certain that is not the issue at this point.
I rather want to rebuilt the machine to get the clean start. Forgive me if I sound staring an OS flame war, which is not my intention at all, but it only takes 40-60 minutes to rebuild Mac, while Windows always gives me 2 days of headache. Since I see many Windows guru here, I'd like to ask for suggestions. This is Thinkpad T20. I need to wipe clean and scratch install Win2KJP. Here is the problem I always get. DOS can't do NTFS. If I install as FAT, when I convert it to NTFS later, MBR screws up and I get BSD with a bogus message telling me possible virus corrupted the directory. My guess of why it does this is because I _have to_ keep the second partition, D: intact because that's where all the documents lives, and installer confuses partition table. The only solution I got is to reformat the internal drive, install Win2K as FAT, convert to NTFS, repartition, and restore D: image, which is a 2 days job including finding the drivers for hardware components first then running millions of Windows updators. I don't want to do this. I want to wipe C: only then reinstall Win2KJP from the installer CD as NTFS. My guess is I'd need Win32 boot floppy disk which also supports CD-ROM drives. Not only I can find now defunct IBM CD-ROM driver, I also can't find NTFS capable boot floppy image on the net. Any suggestion would be appreciated. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
