Reformat Problem

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Midnight-Gecko

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Ok, So I just reformatted my computer, and it runs great now, theres just 2 main things. The drive my os runs on is Fat32 while the rest of my drives are NFTS, is that a problem? And can it be fixed easily?

Another thing is that when I start up my computer it asks which os i want to use, with windows xp above another windows xp, the top one sends me my normal way to the login screen, but If i click the bottom one it says it cannot locate some file and it then restarts the computer. It doesnt have any (seemingly) affect on my computers performace, Its just kind of a nuisance.

And I cant get on the internet becuase my computer also needs a driver for my ethernet card, which i cant seem to find, is there a way i can download it?

Thanks
 
If XP was installed and working on more then one drive you would boot to the second or third installation in order to use the Disk Management in the Administrative Tools there to convert the Fat32 to NTFS. When installing XP on the drive you boost the system with it included the installation previously performed on the other drive into the boot.ini boot loader file XP uses to load the system. that can be edited to have a line removed to correct this. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289022

You will have to go to the board manufacturer's own support site for updates in order to download the latest driver set for the board. The updates are usually larger then will fit on a 3 1/2" floppy disk. If you have a cd writer on the system you are using the update can either be dragged onto a cd-rw or burned to a cd-r in order to get those installed onto your system.
 
Thanks Alot for the answers, but one more Q, is there an easy way to figure out wat model and everything I have for an ethernet card, I think it said YUKONor something, but thats about all I know.
 
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