Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)
Hi there! On 21 Dec 99, at 18:53, Jast wrote about "Re[2]: SOT: Windows language versions...": Thomas Apart from the fear of instability, kindly allow me a stupid question: Thomas Will this (installing another Win98 over an existing Win) reformat my Thomas hard disk? Instability?? I expect total corruption! I have an USA windows 98 SE installed over a German Windows 98 FE. It's not really a problem, besides Windows always being a problem. Of course it's generally not a good idea to install one windows over the other, but... it will work for an intermediate solution. I just imagined what a mess is your registry now!:-) Besides, it's just plain interesting how is it working now: do you _really_ have both "My documents" folder and the "The same name, translated to German" one??? -- SY, Alex (St.Petersburg, Russia) http://mph.phys.spbu.ru/~akiselev --- Thought for the day: The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything. --- PGP public keys on keyservers: 0xA2194BF9 (RSA); 0x214135A2 (DH/DSS) fingerprints: F222 4AEF EC9F 5FA6 7515 910A 2429 9CB1 (RSA) A677 81C9 48CF 16D1 B589 9D33 E7D5 675F 2141 35A2 (DH/DSS) --- -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)
Hallo Rob, On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 at 11:57:50 [GMT +0100], you wrote: Will this (installing another Win98 over an existing Win) reformat my hard disk? R no, it will not. but if you want a clean Thai install, you better start on a R clean disk. R or if you have enough disk space, install the Thai version on a different R partition ... How do I do that? FDISK will format the hard disk first, or not? But I do have a partition called drive D: - it's partitioned off the hard disk as way of a backup (I suppose). I would like to make this bootable with the Thai-Win. That should be no problem, right? Please tell me how I do that (off-list, if necessary). -- Thanks a lot and best regards, Thomas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message reply created with The Bat! 1.38e under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998 using an Intel Celeron 366 Mhz, 128MB RAM -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)
Hello Thomas Fernandez, On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:10:31 +0800 GMT your local time, which was Monday, December 20, 1999, 4:10:31 PM (GMT+0700) my local time, Thomas Fernandez wrote: Thomas On my home computer: because in the shop - where they didn't speak any Thomas English - they didn't have an English Windows to install for me. I Thomas also haven't found one yet . I just brought a Thai Windows from Thomas Bangkok and might install this over the Chinese Windows (I read Thai), Thomas but I am afraid that it will just make my machine unstable. Do you Thomas have any experience with installing a Win version over a version with Thomas another language? Both are Win98. I do... I suggest you first backup all your data as with almost total certainty your days of Chinese windows will be over if you stick Thai on top! Thomas Apart from the fear of instability, kindly allow me a stupid question: Thomas Will this (installing another Win98 over an existing Win) reformat my Thomas hard disk? Instability?? I expect total corruption! R the tabs are from left to right (or is that the other way around in chinese ?) R ; 'contents', 'index', 'find'. Thomas Thanks. ;-) Best regards, tracer Using theBAT 1.38e mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)
Hi there! On 20 Dec 99, at 20:09, Thomas Fernandez wrote about "Re: SOT: Windows language versions ": Will this (installing another Win98 over an existing Win) reformat my hard disk? R no, it will not. but if you want a clean Thai install, you better start on a R clean disk. R or if you have enough disk space, install the Thai version on a different R partition ... How do I do that? FDISK will format the hard disk first, or not? But I do have a partition called drive D: - it's partitioned off the hard disk as way of a backup (I suppose). I would like to make this bootable with the Thai-Win. That should be no problem, right? No problem whatsoever. Get Partition Magic from www.powerquest.com, install it, and you're done. That's instead of Fdisk. Then, instead of the dual boot, there's a nice tool called "Boot manager". It used to be a part of PQmagic ver.3. -- SY, Alex (St.Petersburg, Russia) http://mph.phys.spbu.ru/~akiselev --- Thought for the day: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. --- PGP public keys on keyservers: 0xA2194BF9 (RSA); 0x214135A2 (DH/DSS) fingerprints: F222 4AEF EC9F 5FA6 7515 910A 2429 9CB1 (RSA) A677 81C9 48CF 16D1 B589 9D33 E7D5 675F 2141 35A2 (DH/DSS) --- -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)
Hallo Alexander, On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 at 17:08:52 [GMT +0300], you wrote: R or if you have enough disk space, install the Thai version on a different R partition ... How do I do that? AVK No problem whatsoever. Get Partition Magic from AVK www.powerquest.com, install it, and you're done. That's instead AVK of Fdisk. Then, instead of the dual boot, there's a nice tool AVK called "Boot manager". It used to be a part of PQmagic ver.3. I'm checking the web site and think this is exactly what I need! Thank you multifold! whisper You're sure it works - I mean, no data will be lost? /whisper -- Cheers, Thomas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message reply created with The Bat! 1.38e under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998 using an Intel Celeron 366 Mhz, 128MB RAM -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:57:53 +0800, Thomas Fernandez wrote: I'm checking the web site and think this is exactly what I need! Thank you multifold! whisper You're sure it works - I mean, no data will be lost? /whisper Absolutely. I've used it myself on many occasions and it hasn't let me down once. There are stories out there, however, and they do warn that you should backup your data. :) -- Ali Martin | Using The Bat! v1.38e mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6) [ A living example of Artificial Intelligence. ] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)
Hallo Ali, On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 at 11:12:46 [GMT -0500], you wrote: I'm checking the web site and think this is exactly what I need! Thank you multifold! whisper You're sure it works - I mean, no data will be lost? /whisper AM Absolutely. I've used it myself on many occasions and it hasn't let me AM down once. There are stories out there, however, and they do warn that AM you should backup your data. :) ... which I will, at least for the first trial. :-) -- Cheers, Thomas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message reply created with The Bat! 1.38e under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998 using an Intel Celeron 366 Mhz, 128MB RAM -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)
Hallo tracer, On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 at 23:15:35 [GMT +0700], you wrote: t I tried it once with japanese and English... t Donot forget that you have to prevent scandisk etc to run on the t 'wrong' parition as otherwise ms cleans your stuff the hardway. OK. ;-) t Anyway if you got the v2 of Thai 98, let me know how you like it. t The one I saw installed here didnt have any English in it (g) I'd still prefer that: my Chinese Windows doesn't have any English either, but at least I can read Thai. -- Cheers, Thomas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message reply created with The Bat! 1.38e under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998 using an Intel Celeron 366 Mhz, 128MB RAM -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)
Hi there! On 20 Dec 99, at 23:57, Thomas Fernandez wrote about "Re: SOT: Windows language versions ": AVK No problem whatsoever. Get Partition Magic from AVK www.powerquest.com, install it, and you're done. That's instead AVK of Fdisk. Then, instead of the dual boot, there's a nice tool AVK called "Boot manager". It used to be a part of PQmagic ver.3. I'm checking the web site and think this is exactly what I need! Thank you multifold! No problem:-) whisper You're sure it works - I mean, no data will be lost? /whisper Well, I don't know what version they are offering right now. I still prefer PQMagic3 (like it better:-)). Once I've tried v.4, but didn't like it. Besides, this version doesn't include boot manager due to some reason AFAIK:-( As for the problems that you might encounter, once upon a time my friend used ver.4 against Linux/Windows dual boot system. PQM offered him to create an undo disk, to which he answered "The brakes were invented by a coward!" and proceeded without it. Well, in a few minutes it was found out that PQM has disabled lilo boot, and the next couple of hours were spent in fixing all that stuff. Therefore, *always* create undo! -- SY, Alex (St.Petersburg, Russia) http://mph.phys.spbu.ru/~akiselev --- Thought for the day: To every rule there is an exception, and vice versa. --- PGP public keys on keyservers: 0xA2194BF9 (RSA); 0x214135A2 (DH/DSS) fingerprints: F222 4AEF EC9F 5FA6 7515 910A 2429 9CB1 (RSA) A677 81C9 48CF 16D1 B589 9D33 E7D5 675F 2141 35A2 (DH/DSS) --- -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)
Monday, December 20, 1999, 2:59:17 AM, Thomas wrote: If you have a programme that will partition my hard disk without reformat, please let me know. I would even make an extra partition for Linux. :-) Partition Magic. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
