Posts by Ryan Watson43

wearymason4 said:...you sure you picked the SSD for the install? Or did your win end up landing on the HDD instead?

Honestly, I don't even know if I have an HDD or just an SSD at this point. And if you're going to tell me to "just go check," well—I don't even know how to unscrew a laptop case...

James Alvarez63 said:You should check your BIOS settings—look for UEFI vs. CSM—because that can occasionally cause headaches, especially when you're dealing with an M.2 SSD. Based on SSu, the SSD is actually perfectly healthy at 100%.

Thanks.

Even though HWiNFO64 reported the drive is at 100%—though one has to wonder about the reliability of such tools... I seem to recall using Sandra back in the day; does that utility still exist, and is it even trustworthy anymore?—the current situation is that Windows is throwing this error during boot:
"Fixing problem C:\ stage 2..."

wearymason4 said:Have you checked your CMOS battery yet? ..if that thing is dying, your BIOS settings are just gonna keep resetting itself.
Maybe take a look at your drive health using something like HWiNFO64. For an SSD, it shows you a percentage—kind of like how mine sits at 80% right now, and I ended up swapping mine out once it hit 69%.

https://ibb.co/k9P79xL

Thanks... If I'm reading this correctly, it's showing 100%

https://ibb.co/Yk3XZ0B

fadedorca66 said:So what kind of PC are we talking about here? And how are you even sure the SSD is actually "damaged"?

Well, because I kept running into issues where it would claim a boot file was missing during startup... After about ten attempts, it would finally pull up Windows, though it froze quite frequently. I ended up wiping everything. Its BIOS—or whatever system handles this—ran a disk check and claimed it couldn't find any problems...

Based on previous discussions here, I've decided to give up on MS-DOS altogether.

I did a fresh install of Windows yesterday and everything seemed perfectly fine for the first day, but then this morning, the boot manager was missing again... After a few tries, I managed to get the computer running, and this time, once I was inside Windows, I received a notification saying, "Your disk is corrupted, click to repair." It performed some sort of internal magic, so we shall see how things progress...

Thanks, everyone.

granitecrane2 said:I was actually struggling just a few days ago trying to install Windows XP 32-bit as a dual-boot alongside Windows 10 x64. It isn't as simple as it sounds. On newer motherboards, installing any 32-bit OS is almost impossible. When you search online, you get all sorts of advice, like disabling RAM modules because having too much memory interferes with the process and whatnot.

On an older motherboard I have in a museum computer, I managed to pull it off (after I completely messed up my Windows 10 partition), though it took quite a bit of maneuvering. Now I have a new Linux install, Windows 7 64-bit, and Windows XP 32-bit sitting there, and I'll probably put Windows 10 back on once I find the media.
Basically, people recommend physically disconnecting all other hard drives because there's a known bug in the installer where it fails to select the correct partition intended for Windows XP (it picks the wrong one even when you select the right one).
Furthermore, you can't even create or format a partition using anything else; you really have to do it within XP itself. Also, the disk needs to be MBR rather than GPT. And so on.

In short, for your DOS attempt: disconnect every single drive except the one you want to use for DOS, wipe it completely, delete all existing partitions, and then try using the DOS installation disk to create and format the drive.
Naturally, the drive shouldn't be too large; generally, the older and smaller the better. An SSD might work, but I wouldn't bet on it.
After that, proceed with the DOS installation.
Honestly, I don't see much point in doing this, since the system is so ancient that modern hardware can run it at blazing speeds for any demanding task inside Oracle VirtualBox.
Any game from that era will fly just as if it were running on original hardware. Not to mention, for gaming, there is always DOSBox available.

Thanks so much! This is far more detailed than I was expecting.

Yes, I also attempted Windows XP 32-bit, and halfway through it either froze up entirely or, during the second attempt, threw a Blue Screen of Death.

I honestly never imagined I’d be the one posting a question like this on a forum, but after scouring several different sites and facing nothing but dead ends, I’m hoping someone here might actually show me some mercy...

So, here is the situation: I take a USB stick, turn it into a bootable startup disk, plug it into an empty PC, set the boot priority to the USB, and—presto—I successfully launch DOS.

The problem, however, is that the system only recognizes a single drive—the C: drive—which is, of course, the USB stick itself. Once I pull the stick out, the PC is essentially a paperweight.

How exactly am I supposed to install DOS onto the PC itself? Do I need to manually create partitions first? And if so, what is the proper way to go about that?

(The machine has an SSD in it, though it seems to be failing—it caused things to crash during a previous Windows installation attempt. Still, I’d at least like to get DOS up and running)

Casey Bennett said:So, you seem to be under the impression that tagging works here like it does on Twitter or Instagram. It simply doesn't work that way on this forum.
Threads get tagged, not individual posts. Which, if you think about it, is perfectly logical since a forum is built out of subforums and threads, unlike those two social media platforms which operate on an entirely different concept altogether.

My line of thinking is more along the lines of Stack Overflow and sites of that nature.
For instance, imagine a question regarding taxes on an automobile, yet the thread is filed under the "Automobiles" category—rather than "entrepreneurship, accounting and taxation," since a thread can't reside in multiple categories at once.
Someone might be browsing specifically within "Automobiles," but having a "tax" tag would allow someone searching through "entrepreneurship, accounting and taxation" to easily find it if they happen to know the answer.

With all due respect, and I truly appreciate the assistance provided thus far, I don't believe we have quite hit upon the core issue here 😁
To reiterate—I am not asking about how to perform a search. When I need to search, I simply use Google, or if I want to target this specific forum, I just type
site:reddit.com tags

My intention wasn't even about the creation of the tags themselves—since, logically, a tag can only be attached to a post if it has already been established in the system.
Suppose the administrator sets up certain tags: dog, cat, rabbit
In that scenario, we users would be able to utilize those specific tags, but if I attempted to input "mouse," the system wouldn't permit it because it hasn't been defined.

The underlying motivation for adding tags to posts is quite simple: it makes them much easier to highlight, search for, and categorize down the road...

I appreciate the effort, really—but I wasn't actually talking about the search function... what I mean is that whenever I attempt to draft a new post, the "tags" field refuses to let me create anything new. It would be incredibly helpful if there were at least some sort of autosuggest feature to show which tags are already in use. (I tried testing it out with simple terms like "taxation," but it just sits there staring back at me...)

I’ve scoured every corner of the internet, and yet, I still haven't stumbled upon an answer to this specific question.
Could someone please drop a link to those instructions?

Every single time "tags" are mentioned, they seem to be discussed strictly in terms of HTML tags rather than keywords—for instance, right here http://www.example.com/showthread.php?t...ghlight=tags

Byron, absolutely brilliant!
Even though I neglected to mention that I’m working with Apache OpenOffice rather than Microsoft Office—which necessitated an extra little detour involving copying and pasting everything into a .txt file first—I managed to pull off exactly what you suggested... everything worked perfectly.

Thanks a million!

In Microsoft Word, I’ve got this template laid out like this: first name and last name (line 1), address (line 2), then phone number and email (line 3)
Followed by a blank line, and then the next entry begins.

Is there any way to automatically pull all this data and sort it neatly into Excel columns—specifically, one column for the full name, another for the address, a third for the phone, and a fourth for the email?

Thanks in advance

Ryan Watson43 said:Where exactly?

I’ve been Googling private clinics in Chicago where I can get an abdominal ultrasound, but I am coming up empty... (Partly because my appointment at Fran Mihaljević isn't even scheduled for nearly a month).

Could someone point me toward a website that lists private facilities? I want to see what's available in my neighborhood—ideally somewhere close by and reasonably priced.

Thanks in advance!

I recently visited Dr. Solomon at the Community Health Center in downtown Chicago—truly an excellent physician... He doesn't just run a quick ultrasound and send you on your way; he actually takes the time for proper consultations and provides genuine medical guidance, which is a rare find these days... $67 The appointment—it actually happened the very same day I called...

Jeffrey Reyes4 said:That’s how it works $33 with private clinics—you order it and have it in a few days

Where exactly?

I’ve been Googling private clinics in Chicago where I can get an abdominal ultrasound, but I am coming up empty... (Partly because my appointment at Fran Mihaljević isn't even scheduled for nearly a month).

Could someone point me toward a website that lists private facilities? I want to see what's available in my neighborhood—ideally somewhere close by and reasonably priced.

Thanks in advance!