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q[1] = 'How can I quickly navigate through this long list of FAQ\'s?';
a[1] = 'If you hold down "Ctrl" and "F" you will get text search window up on your screen. Please enter the key words for your question. You may have to try a selection of different words find the best FAQ for your query.';
q[2] = 'How do I get into "Safe Mode" for Windows 95,98 and Me with HyperOs 2004 products?';
a[2] = 'To get into "Safe Mode" you must first make sure that the system you wish to go to is the "last used or active system". To do this go to a C: prompt and type "systems". If the system you want to boot into "Safe Mode" with is not the "last used or active system" then type "system" followed by the drive letter of the system you want (i.e. system E). Now reboot your PC and continuously tap your keyboards "F8" key whilst the PC is booting up. You will then be presented with the "NTLoader menu". From this menu select "Return to OS choices menu". Once in this menu select to go to "95,98,Me systems" BUT you MUST hit your "F8" key almost instantly after you have selected "95,98,Me systems" this will take you to the correct "Safe Mode" boot menu where option "3" will take you into "Safe Mode".';
q[3] = 'After cloning a Windows 98 installation I find that the copy will not connect to the network that the system it was cloned form connects to?';
a[3] = 'Uninstall the network card drivers in the systems that is not connecting to the network then re-install them and re-configure the network.';
q[4] = 'When I boot up my computer I get a message stating a "hall.dll" error, what should I do?';
a[4] = 'Upgrade to HyperOs 2007VE. It can fire up XP even if it is referenced to the wrong drive letter.';
q[5] = 'Will Hyperos work with a RAID configuration?';
a[5] = 'Yes, Raid is transparent to Hyperos. You can install your RAID drivers in Windows as normal.';
q[6] = 'Can I keep my existing Windows System with all of my applications and simply add a few more Windows systems with Hyperos?';
a[6] = 'Yes. But we recommend that you install any further applications in one of your new Windows systems to avoid overloading your old installation any further. Each new version of Windows that you want to use with Hyperos must be installed once. You can then make several copies of that system.';
q[7] = 'Do I have to install all my Windows device drivers and printer drivers and Sound drivers and Graphics drivers 10 times in each of my 10 Windows systems?';
a[7] = 'No, you can install them in one Windows system and then copy that windows system to 9 other hard disk partitions. This assumes that you are running 10 copies of the same version of Windows. If you are running several versions of Windows then you will have to install the drivers you require in each version once.';
q[8] = 'My computer is just getting slower and slower, it must now be obsolete. Shall I go and buy a new faster one?';
a[8] = 'No. You do not have to do that. You can just buy HyperOs OneClick or 2007VE, they are a lot cheaper! Windows is probably just clogging up. Clone your old system and uninstall everything from that clone and then start again with a nice new fast virgin Windows installation!';
q[9] = 'Is Hyperos just for Big Business?';
a[9] = 'No, it is for every computer user from the home user to the Ministry of Defence';
q[10] = 'How do you guys manage to run Windows 95 OSR2/98/Me with more than 512 MB of RAM?';
a[10] = 'We limit the amount of memory that Windows 9x sees to 512MB using the line MaxPhysPage=1FFFF in System.ini and we also limit Microsoft\'s hard disk caching program vcache using the line MaxFileCache=65536 in System.ini. This is a Microsoft workaround for a known Windows \'memory leakage\' bug. These two commands stop vcache becoming overblown and eating up most of the top 1GB of the 4GB virtual address space known as the system arena. The top 1GB of this virtual address space is for 16 bit real mode (ring-0) applications, such as the RAM HyperDrive, your AGP graphics drivers, vcache, and DOS prompt boxes.';
q[11] = 'Can I use 2 Hard drives with Hyperos?';
a[11] = 'Yes. Make sure that all of the partitions after C: on both of the drives are Logical partitions. Only the C: drive should be primary. And make sure that the C: drive is on IDE1, the first IDE socket on your motherboard, or on the first IDE channel or SCSI channel of your hard disk controller. Otherwise you may get disk error messages.';
q[12] = 'I created 5 hard disk partitions when I first installed Hyperos and now I would like another 5, how can I create these extra partitions?';
a[12] = 'Use PartitionMagic and be sure to put them after all of your initial existing partitions if you are running 2K or XP (i.e. put them further away from the C: drive than your first 5 partitions). This is because 2K and XP have the wonderful capability of deciding for themselves what drive letters they should call your partitions. If you insert a new partition before an XP installation then XP may not run. So always create new partitions after your old ones. If your 2K or XP drive letter assignments do become out of step or out of seuqence with your Hard disk partitions, then you may get the Windows error message: Windows could not start because &lt;Windows root&gt;\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupt This is not because Hal.dll is is not missing or corrupt, it is because c:\boot.ini is trying to boot a non existent Windows directory. The cause of the error message is that<Windows root>is not where boot.ini expects to find it. This can happen when 2000 decides to call the H drive the K drive. Then Hyperos will atempt to boot K:\WINNT but there is no K:\WINNT. The next problem is that 2K and XP both remember where the CD was but 95 OSR2 NT 98 and Me do not. So if the CD was at J and then you add a couple of new partitions, then rather than moving the CD to L, as 95 OSR2 NT 98 ME do, 2K and XP leave it at J and put the partitions at K and L. This is not helpful when running Hyperos, since Hyperos seeks to unify all drive letter assignments for each version of Windows. So before you add new partitions it is a good idea to push the CD up to say X or Y. You can do this using the Computer Management icon in the Control Panel in 2K and XP or if you have HyperOs build 51.142 or later you can take advantage of our total drive letter reassignment utility. Open My Other Computers, choose: Tools &gt; Re assign drive letters And HyperOs and Windows will do the rest. Your drive letters will automatically return to the Microsoft default allocation, which is the hard disk partitioning order. Finally you should put any NTFS partitions after your FAT16 or FAT32 partitions is you are running 95 OSR2 98 ME (in addition to your NT based systems). This is because 95 OSR2 98 and Me do not recognise them and with Hyperos you want every system to take the same drive letter in every version of Windows. In fact all of the above paragraph is designed to achieve that aim. If you need more than 10 Windows systems then please purchase Hyperos 2003 release 5 or release 6 which run 20 Windows systems.';
q[13] = 'Do I need a Host Windows OS to run Hyperos?';
a[13] = 'No, Hyperos is not a Host - Client, Virtual PC system. It is a single boot and boot environment reconfiguration system.';
q[14] = 'Can I read write and access data on drives other than the one I am running Windows on with Hyperos?';
a[14] = 'Yes, Hyperos is not a multiboot, hide all the other drives, system like Partition Magic. All drives are visible under Hyperos. (Except the D: drive under certain circumstances).';
q[15] = 'How does Hyperos drive substitution work?';
a[15] = 'Hyperos drive substitution is one of those things that is very easy to use and very difficult to explain. This is because it works by employing a very intelligent methodology rather than by employing really complex low level code. When Hyperos is running Windows 95 OSR2 98 Me on say the G: drive, it gives this drive the Alias of the D: drive. So that the drive is both the G: drive and the D: drive. That is it basically. This means that the PC believes that it is running Windows on D: but in fact it is running it on G: This is how we fool the PC into running umpteen copies of Windows on umpteen drives. This was one of the innovative steps that enabled single boot multi Windows systems to be born. NT 2K XP do not use drive substitution or drive alias names. They use boot.ini redirection and then registry, link and .ini file drive letter remapping.';
q[16] = 'Is it really the case that I can drag and drop whole Windows systems in seconds as if they were files? Can I really copy the whole E drive to the whole F: drive in a few seconds?';
a[16] = 'Yes, Hyperos has the world\'s fastest sector copying program (as far as we are aware) It copies not files but hard disk sectors and clusters, from one partition to another via a RAM buffer. Hyperos reorders the data whilst it is in the RAM buffer so that it can be written very quickly. In this way the head movement of your hard disk is minimized. We call this a DHMMA, Disk Head Movement Minimization Algorithm. the result is that we can copy XP in 75 seconds on one UDMA 5 hard disk.';
q[17] = 'Will the HyperDrive eliminate all traces of my internet surfing activity?';
a[17] = 'Yes, If you hate all of the rubbish that the internet downloads to your hard disk, which can mess up your Windows Registry and set your home page to sites you have no interest in, and fill your favourites up with garbage etc. etc., then the HyperDrive evaporates at turn off and the whole history and effect of your internet session is wiped out. - completely. What the HyperDrive does is to install Windows in RAM in around 10 seconds and then run Windows during the internet session and then throw away the RAM disk at the end of the session. This is not pretty good privacy it is total privacy, as regards surfing and your PC.';
q[18] = 'Do I still need antivirus in HyperDrive mode?';
a[18] = 'To be safe - Yes. But Hyperos and the HyperDrive do offer some protection. Obviously if the virus resides in Windows it will be wiped out at the end of the session. Also Viruses (so far) do not expect to find umpteen Windows systems on a PC, so they are often localised to only one system with Hyperos. So by wiping out that system you can eliminate the virus.';
q[19] = 'Does Hyperos support a network environment? Does it support connections to network printers and network drivers and network file sharing etc.?';
a[19] = 'Yes, Hyperos (Build 51.124 onwards) can back up and restore whole Windows systems across your network to long file name long path name long network name addresses. Hyperos does not limit Windows functionality, it merely gives you more copies and versions of Windows.';
q[20] = 'Will Hyperos speed up my PC ?';
a[20] = 'Yes. Hyperos enables you to spread your software load, so each program will run faster because it has more of Windows to itself. Windows ages and Windows fills up with files and the Windows registry fills up with entries the more you run it, and the more software it runs. So with Hyperos you reduce the load on each Windows system, and you reduce the frequency with which that particular Windows system is used. The result is that each Windows system performs faster and is more stable. In the cases of Hyperos 2003 r2 r4 r6, the RAM HyperDrive can read and write data around 10 times faster than most hard disks. It has a maximum data throughput of 266 MB/sec, whereas the best hard disks today achieve around 30 - 50 MB/sec if they are set up correctly with the correct southbridge drivers and with UDMA mode enabled etc. Many of them aren\'t set up correctly. DMA mode is disabled in a huge percentage of home and consumer PCs. These PCs transfer data to and from the hard disk at around 2MB to 8MB per second in PIO mode (programmed input output). Also when you run Windows in HyperDrive mode, you run a virgin copy from the hard disk and this virgin dies at the end of the session, so Windows does not age at all as a result!';
q[21] = 'Do I have to have 10 systems if a buy Hyperos 2003 r3?';
a[21] = 'No. You can run any number of systems you like from 0 to 10.';
q[22] = 'I have 3 hard drives and HyperOs will not swap to Windows on the second or third drive, what is wrong?';
a[22] = 'This is a bug in Windows. Windows will not talk to your BIOS. So if you have more than 2 hard drives installed, the BIOS may give the second and third etc drives different drive numbers to XP. We have provided a fix for this bug in the HyperOs My Other Computers window. Choose Tools Options Booting and then match the BIOS drive numbers to the XP drive numbers.';
q[23] = 'How long does Hyperos take to install?';
a[23] = 'Around 30 seconds. Just double click on \'install.exe\' on the Hyperos CD, this brings up the Hyperos Wizard screen (in Flash) then click on \'Install Hyperos in this system\'. Then you need to follow the instructions on the screen which means that you hit \'Y\' 3 times, hit \'space bar\' 3/4 times and hit \'enter\' 2/3 times and that is it. The whole installation takes less than a minute. Hyperos is only 18MB in size. And a Partition Magic 8.0 component is integrated within it. But if you are installing several Windows OSes as well, then these will take the normal time that they take to install.';
q[24] = 'How do I share data between different Windows systems with Hyperos?';
a[24] = 'Put your data on the C: drive or on any data drive, and all drives are visible to all Windows systems with Hyperos. Basically you put each Windows system on its own drive/partition and you put your data on other drives partitions. Each system drive can see each data drive. Although of course Windows 95 OSR2 98 ME cannot see NTFS drives.';
q[25] = 'Can I use several different sound cards or graphics cards or network cards with Hyperos?';
a[25] = 'Yes. You can put as many PCI cards in your PC as it can take. You then only load the drivers for the particular card you want to use into the particular Windows system which you want to use it in. Digital Village use 3 different sound cards and 7 different audio recording programs in 7 different Windows systems on one hard disk in their retail demo for example.';
q[26] = 'I am sick and tired of Windows crashing and wonder if your system would be of any benefit to me. I have read about how Windows XP rarely crashes, but it certainly does crash. I have installed it no less than 4 times. It is very frustrating. Will Hyperos 2003 be of benefit to an individual Home user like me?';
a[26] = 'Yes, you can install XP once and then makes an image of a perfect virgin copy and then copy this into half a dozen partitions so that you are running on 6 cylinders. Then you can split you software load between 6 different XP systems, and if one of them crashes you do not care because you can copy your virgin installation over to that system at a rate of 1GB per minute. And in any event you have got another 5 of them.';
q[27] = 'What does Hyperos do with Paging files Swap files System Restore and System Hibernate features?';
a[27] = 'Hyperos does something amazing with Swap files and Paging files, and all the credit is due to Microsoft here. Multiple copies of Windows 95 OSR2 and 98 and Me all quite happily share one swap file. And multiple copies of Windows NT and 2K and XP all quite happily share one Paging file. We were amazed when we saw Windows doing this. Even though it is true to say that for most tasks, there is always one version of Windows that does it in a different way from the other 5, which actually drives us round the bend on a daily basis. We are very impressed with the swap file and paging file consistency between the 6 Windows OS\'s. The sharing of swap files also saves a lot of space. If you have say 20 versions of XP on 1PC, then since the Paging file is normally 1GB in size, you would have 20GB used by Paging files if we did not use the same Paging file for all 20 systems. Hyperos puts the swap file for 95 OSR2 98 Me systems (win386.swp) on root of the C: drive and the Paging file (pagefile.sys) on the root of the C: drive. Hyperos automatically disables system restore in all versions of Windows, because Hyperos itself backs up and restores Windows completely in seconds. The Hyperos manual advises and explains how to disable Hibernate mode in ME and 2K and XP. It is a pain in the neck and uses a lot of space. It also interferes with Partition Magic (in the case of Me). It is often unnecessary given the speed of a modern hard disk especially if you are using a Promise Hard Disk controller, which increases Hard disk speed before Windows is loaded by a factor of at least 4 times.';
q[28] = 'What Operating System is Hyperos based on?';
a[28] = 'It is written in the programming language C and in DOS Batch language and in Borland Delphi and in Macromedia Flash. It also includes Partition Magic and Winrar. It is not based on any Windows OS, it actually runs Windows OS\'s itself. Hyperos turns all Windows Operating Systems into applications of Hyperos. Hyperos is not an Operating System itself, because it does not have a Kernel. But it is an Operating System Manager in the truest and most complete sense. It turns the PC user into a Master of several Windows systems, rather than him remaining the victim of one!';
q[29] = 'Does Hyperos have to be installed in Windows or can it be put on a blank hard drive with a boot disk?';
a[29] = 'Hyperos must be installed in Windows, it is a Windows manager.';
q[30] = 'Does Hyperos actually run all of Windows from a RAM DRIVE, you know such as the registry, the program files, the drivers etc.?';
a[30] = 'Yes, all of Windows (except the Swap file) is run from RAM, not only this but the whole of Microsoft Office or whatever applications you have installed will be run from RAM as well!';
q[31] = 'What size can you get a Windows 98 and a Windows ME installation down to, to run it from a RAM HyperDrive which has a Maximum size of 732MB?';
a[31] = 'Windows 98 can be installed in 220MB (FAT16), given that Hyperos will put the swap file on C: (not on the partition where Windows 98 is installed). Windows ME can be installed in 325MB (FAT16), given that the swap file is on C:, system restore is turned off and hibernate if disabled, and the CAB files are not copied onto the partition containing Me. We do recommend the 98lite product range. Visit www.litePC.com. Shaun has mastered the art of stripping down Windows to make it as small as possible. He has also managed to separate Windows 98 from Internet Explorer which we understand that Microsoft argued was impossible, in their anti trust case, about dumping free browsers on the market to stuff Netscape. Incidentally you can fit Windows 98 and MSOffice 2000 on the HyperDrive.';
q[32] = 'Do antivirus programs cause any problems with Hyperos? I run Norton antivirus and Norton Internet security?';
a[32] = 'No, but we use 4 programs which write to the boot sector of your disk partitions and so perform \'virus-like\' activity. You may need to exclude these 4 programs from your anti-virus checklist. The programs are called Cobbler.exe, Cobblerx.exe, vlabel.exe and syncdrv2.exe';
q[33] = 'If I install Word and Excel in one Windows System and then want to have them in another Windows system as well, then do I have to install them again?';
a[33] = 'Not necessarily. You can just copy the system with them installed to a new partition and then add further software at will. Hyperos copies not just Windows, but Windows and all its applications and all its drivers from one partition to the next.';
q[34] = 'I have just been installing Hyperos (10 machine version). So far I have had complete success with installing NT4, 98, Me. Yesterday I was installing 2000. It installed and I created an image with no problems. But if you wipe out the original 2000 installation before restoring the image of 2000 to another partition then 2000 bombs on the login screen. Note: If you restore to a different partition and reboot to it without removing the original installation of 2000 then you can login and Hyperos kicks in and remaps the registry and profiles etc.';
a[34] = 'Well done, you have identified the problem and solved it. This is covered in the manual. Do not remove the original installation until you have run the second installation so that Hyperos can remap it. Hyperos for NT 2K and XP does not work by drive substitution, it works by registry, link and .ini file drive letter remapping. If you move 2K from E: to G: and run it on G: then Hyperos will zap the registry and the link files and the .ini files and change every incidence of D: top be G: Then 2K has been effectively installed on G: The Hyperos component that does this is called Winmove.exe';
q[35] = 'How do I partition my hard drive with Hyperos?';
a[35] = 'Hyperos includes Partition Magic 8.0 which is integrated with it. We also have written an incredibly fast but rather destructive utility called HDISK which will create 21 partitions in about 3 seconds, but destroys everything in its path. It formats your hard disk instantly. It is only to be used on new hard disks!';
q[36] = 'Partition Magic will not partition my Vista drive, why is that?';
a[36] = 'Microsoft have changed NTFS for Vista. Vista itself can now manage partitions. Right Click My Computer, select Manage, then select disk management.';
q[37] = 'What do I want with 10 Windows? I have enough trouble with 1 Windows!';
a[37] = 'The reason that you have trouble with 1 Windows is that you are asking it to do more that it can safely do. Windows is an engineering product which is fit for a purpose and works for a length of time. But Windows is in no way \'perfect\'. Windows is a complex OS, so any Windows system can for no apparent reason develop a strange and annoying and time consuming fault condition. In fact the majority of Windows users put up with this fault or series of faults because they do not know how to fix them and because they only have one Windows system. Hyperos (which is a comparatively simple OS manager) fixes the problem radically, by dumping the offending system. If Windows gives you any trouble you can just delete it and use one of the other systems. What is more, each system is far less likely to give you trouble since it is carrying a lighter load and operating for a smaller time. Why do Aeroplanes have two engines?';
q[38] = 'What is the difference between Hyperos and Virtual PC?';
a[38] = 'Hyperos is like up to 20 men carrying a small number of software boxes. Virtual PC is like one man carrying a further groups of men on his shoulders, each of which carries some software boxes. Obviously Virtual PC is more of a feat of engineering than Hyperos. But equally obviously Hyperos is more stable and performs much faster. In fact Hyperos speeds up your PC and just gives you more real Windows systems, whereas Virtual PC, which runs software on a client windows system which shares CPU time and RAM with various other client Windows client systems all of which run on emulated hardware all of which runs on a host Windows system is obviously a much slower and more cumbersome and less stable and less real process. However if you need to run two Windows systems at precisely the same time, then virtual PC is the answer, because Hyperos cannot do that. But Hyperos can swap Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 systems without rebooting, and can swap from one Windows OS into any other Windows OS in around 30 to 50 seconds (by rebooting) depending on the speed of your BIOS and your Hard disk and whether or not you have DOS DMA drivers.';
q[39] = 'Can\'t I run loads of Windows systems on my PC by using Boot Magic and back them up with Norton Ghost?';
a[39] = 'Yes you can. But Boot Magic works by creating a maximum of 4 primary partitions per hard disk and hiding 3 of them and running the fourth. So you can only run 4 systems on any one hard disk and you can only see one system at a time. So you cannot manipulate one Windows system from another Windows system, which is one of the most astonishingly powerful features of Hyperos. Furthermore with Boot Magic or with other Multi boot systems you swap between systems using a DOS boot interrupt menu, which is cumbersome because you have to wait for a certain point in the boot process and then choose a system. Whereas Hyperos swaps systems using simple powerful GUI, using the fire and forget method, which is initiated by a double click. You do not have to wait for a specific point in the boot up sequence in DOS and then up and down arrow to select a system. HyperOs automates system swapping. Norton Ghost backs up systems in DOS mode at around 100 MB per minute generally using PIO mode, whereas Hyperos backs up systems at around 500-1500 MB/Minute in Windows in DMA mode. You can restore Windows 98 in 10 seconds on some PCs with Hyperos, because it employs imaging software that is much faster than Norton Ghost. With Boot Magic, each Windows system has to be installed in a partition and run only from that partition. But Hyperos can run any Windows system in any partition (except D:). With Hyperos you can copy a system to a second partition and just run it with a double click. With Hyperos you can have one image of Windows XP and resort it to any partition you like, or to several partitions, and run them all. With Boot Magic you would have to re-install Windows each time in each partition. Hyperos is effectively a spider which can run any version of Windows on any partition on your Hard disk, without multibooting, without hiding partitions and without virtualising your PC.';
q[40] = 'When I move NT I get an error message each time it starts up saying that one of my services cannot be started.';
a[40] = 'This is because Hyperos Winmove cannot change one particular registry entry in NT when it re-addresses the registry after NT is moved. It is a very annoying fact of life, that whatever one tries to do with all 6 versions of Windows, one of them will always behave differently from the rest. This problem, in accordance with the above principle, only manifests itself in NT. The solutions is to edit the registry of the NT system which is giving this error message, by typing \'regedit\' in the run box of the start menu. Then do an Edit - Find for PSTORES.EXE. It appears 6 times in the registry. You only need to change one of the 3 \'image path\' entries. But the simplest thing to do is probably to change all three of them. You will find that they take the form: E:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\PSTORES.EXE In the case that NT used to be on E: but is now on say K. So you need to edit the entry (by double clicking the image path icon) to read: K:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\PSTORES.EXE The one you actually need to change is the CurrentControlSet\Services\ProtectedStorage registry entry. Having changed this entry, by typing a K over the E, just close the registry editor and reboot. The error message will then clear.';
q[41] = 'When installing Windows 95 OSR2/98/ME I get error message SU0168\: "Your computer already has an operating system installed, which cannot be upgraded from this version of Setup"';
a[41] = 'This error message does not occur with retail versions of Windows or with MSDN versions, but it can occur with certain OEM pre-installation versions of 95 OSR2/98/Me. These versions detect the files WIN.COM and WINVER.EXE in another windows 95 OSR2/98/Me system on your PC and then produce the error message and fail. To avoid this problem, you therefore need to rename these two files as say WIN.CXX and WINVER.EXX. Then run Setup again. This can be done as follows: When the install fails (assuming you are using the HyperOs wizards), you will be left at the c:\win9$$7 prompt. Type the following: c:\hyper\winhide This will rename all copies of WIN.COM and WINVER.EXE in the \WINDOWS folder of all drives on your PC as WIN.CXX and WINVER.EXX. This will hide your existing Windows systems 95 OSR2/98/Me from Windows Setup, but it also means that you cannot run these Windows systems again until you have renamed the files back to their original names. Then type the following from the c:\win9$$7&gt; prompt Setup This will restart Windows Setup, and Windows 95 OSR2 98 ME will begin to install again. Once the new version of Windows 95 OSR2/98/Me is installed you must run winshow.bat to rename WIN.COM and WINVER.EXE back to what they were in the first place. To do this, open a DOS prompt box in your new Windows installation and type: c:\hyper\winshow Then you can swap to and run your old windows systems again. If you have an earlier version of HyperOs than build 51.138 then you will not have the utilities winhide and winshow. In this case you will need to rename the files manually.';
q[42] = 'I am building my own PC, what components do you recommend for the best performance with HyperOs?';
a[42] = 'IBM 120GXP series hard disk (or later series): 40GB for 10 systems and 80GB for 20 systems. Nvidia GeForce range of graphics cards. We DO NOW recommend any ATI graphics card produced from March 2003 onwards. If you have an earlier ATI graphics card (pre March 2003) which you wish to use with the HyperDrive I and with 1GB of systems RAM we would have to recommend a graphics card upgrade as the ATI Radeon range eat up ring-0 virtual address space in the top 1GB of your system Arena. If you are using a Radeon card, please limit your total system RAM to 768MB and limit your HyperDrive RAM to 640MB. Latest Athlon DDR motherboard from ASUS or ABIT. Promise ultra ATA100 fast EIDE hard disk controller card. This card provides DMA support for your PC before Windows starts which means that windows will start perhaps twice as quickly. It also improves hard disk performance in Windows. Remember that the GeForce 2 and 3 cards do support Windows 95 OSR2 but the GeForce 4 card does not. Athlon and Pentium 4 chips do not natively support Windows 95 OSR2 but HyperOs provides a patch for both of these chips.';
q[43] = 'When I try and run a scandisk in Windows 95 OSR2/98/ME I get a message saying that Scandisk will not run on a substituted drive.';
a[43] = 'The solution is to run Scandisk on the unsubstituted drive as follows. Determine which drive letter you are on (from My Other Computers) and if for example you are on drive G: then type \'Scandisk G:\' from the run box of the start menu.';
q[44] = 'Why doesn\'t Hyperos work with my Dell on XP?';
a[44] = 'Most Dell computers have a hidden primary partition with Dell utilities in it. This confuses the boot loader and often results in a \'...\hal.dll\' not found message. To resolve this problem use Partition Magic to convert the partition to logical and move it to the end of the disk. Thus making the first partition on the disk C:.';
q[45] = 'I\'ve resized drive C: and I can boot NT,2k and XP but not 95,98 or ME.';
a[45] = 'When you resize drive C: the parameters in file BOOTSECT.DOS are not updated. Run \'Cobbler\' for 9x systems or \'CobblerX\' for NT systems with no parameters. (Known to fix boot problems)';
q[46] = 'Why does my NT4 refuse to boot after installing XP or upgrading the boot loader to XP?';
a[46] = 'To use the XP boot loader with NT4, you must first install NT4 service pack 5 or later. To fix the problem you will need to restore the original boot files from the install CD-ROM. Replace c:\ntdetect.com and c:\ntldr. with the files from your CD:\I386 directory. Note that if you have Windows 2000 installed, you will need to restore the 2000 boot files.';
q[47] = 'Why does my CD-ROM drive disappear when I create more copies of Windows 98?';
a[47] = 'This is normally caused by having GoBack installed. If you remove it and reinstall it the CD-ROM will reappear.';
q[48] = 'After installing Windows 98 or ME I cannot see my CD-ROM.';
a[48] = 'This is usually caused by installing 98 or ME with more than 512MB of system memory. Add this line to the SYSTEM.INI file in the WINDOWS directory of the current system. Look for the section starting [386enh] and add the line if it is missing.<br>&nbsp;<br>[386enh] MaxPhysPage=1FFFF<br>&nbsp;<br>Save file and reboot';
q[49] = 'Which ATA RAID controller works best with HyperOs?';
a[49] = 'We recommend any Promise RAID controller. We cannot recommend Adaptec or HighPoint RAID controllers. We recently tested the Promise FastTrack100 and the Adaptec 1200A which uses the HighPoint chip. To cut a long story short the promise was around 8 times faster for sector level copying in Windows.<br>&nbsp;<br>The tests were performed on a 1200MHz AMD Athlon with 512MB of system RAM running Windows 98 and 4 x 80GB IBM-120GXP disks configured as RAID 1/0 (mirror/stripe). In each case the test data was 500MB in size (a windows installation).<br>&nbsp;<br><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><tr><td class=copy>&nbsp;</td><td class=copy>Controller</td><td class=copy>Adaptec</td><td class=copy>Promise</td></tr><tr><td class=copy>DOS</td><td class=copy>&nbsp;</td><td class=copy>596MB/min</td><td class=copy>647MB/min</td></tr><tr><td class=copy>Win98</td><td class=copy>(adaptec v1.0 driver)</td><td class=copy>98MB/min</td><td class=copy>783MB/min</td></tr><tr><td class=copy>Win98</td><td class=copy>(adaptec v1.1 driver)</td><td class=copy>128MB/min</td><td class=copy>783MB/min</td></tr></TABLE>An additional test was performed on the Promise controller where the disks were reconfigured as a stripe using only 2 disks. Again 500MB is the test data size.<br>&nbsp;<br><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><tr><td class=copy>&nbsp;</td><td class=copy>Promise</td></tr><tr><td class=copy>DOS</td><td class=copy>914MB/min</td></tr><tr><td class=copy>Win98</td><td class=copy>983MB/min</td></tr></TABLE>Similar results were obtained using Windows XP (windows only).';
q[50] = 'Can I run a small Windows 98 internet browsing system with a total of only 512MB of RAM?';
a[50] = 'Yes you can. Use 384MB of system RAM for the HyperDrive and 128MB for Windows and do not load in more than 75MB of software applications into this system.';
q[51] = 'How do I configure my family PC so that my wife has her own XP system, I have my own XP system and my two kids have their own 98 systems and neither of my kids can use or damage either of the XP systems?';
a[51] = 'Using HyperOs 2003 R3 create a FAT32 C drive/partition running Windows XP, this will be a common system. Create a small 100MB FAT16 D drive/partition for HyperOs. Create two 4GB FAT32 drives/partitions E and F for your two Windows 98 systems. Create a further two 6GB NTFS partitions for your two Windows XP systems. Use Windows XP\'s password security to protect your and your wife\'s systems. The kid\'s systems, being 98, will not even recognise the XP systems on NTFS.';
q[52] = 'If I move systems containing Antivirus or Firewall software from one partition to another will the anti-virus or firewall object?';
a[52] = 'Yes. Antivirus and Firewall software are security programs, they will not like being move to another partition. If you wish to move a Windows system containing antivirus or firewall software, then uninstall these prgrams first and then re-install them as reuquired. You should always have anti-virus software installed on your internet computers!';
q[53] = 'Can I use Go Back with HyperOS?';
a[53] = 'It is not advisable to use Go back. It tends to loose the CD-ROM drive icons in some of your computer systems. Installing it on drive C: will always loose the icons. It tends to work on drive E: onwards.';
q[54] = 'Does HyperOs work alongside Multiboot systems?';
a[54] = 'Yes it does, but we do not recommend that you do this, things can be a bit complicated. But if you wish to remove your dual booting software or if you find that it stops Partition Magic working, then follow the dual booting uninstall procedure, or simply remove the dual booting Master boot Record by starting the PC from a boot disk and running FDISK /MBR (which is in the \WINDOWS\COMMAND directory) in the cases of Windows 95/98/ME. Or, in the cases if Windows 2000/XP run FIXMBR from the repair console. Microsoft advise that these should be used with care as any current/previous virus infection could render your partitions inaccessible.';
q[55] = 'When installing HyperOs in Windows 95 OSR2, the system icons fail to appear in My Other Computers?';
a[55] = 'This is because Microsoft\'s Windows 95 OSR2 common controls installer occasionally needs to be run twice in order to work. Just install HyperOs into Windows 95 again and problem solved.';
q[56] = 'I do not have a floppy disk drive what should i do?';
a[56] = 'Contact us and we will send you a bootable CDROM.';
q[57] = 'Are there any problems in moving Windows systems containing applications from one partition to another? Will all of the applications still work at the new drive letter?';
a[57] = 'Yes. In 95 98 Me, HyperOs uses the extra drive letter of D to ensure that all applications work everywhere. In NT/2K/XP/2003, HyperOs re-references the registry and all other files to the new drive letter. So if you copy a Windows system from one drive to another, then all of the applications will work as normal on the second drive. But if you remove the drive letter of the original installation drive of Word XP, Excel XP or PaintShop Pro 7, then these applications will not run because they need to use the original drive letter again for security reasons. So make sure that you install Office XP or PaintShop Pro on a partition which you do not intend to destroy, i.e. on a low drive letter.';
q[58] = 'In 2K and in XP, I sometimes get the message: Unable to lock drive, when I am trying to copy a system or restore a system to that drive. Why is this and what can be done?';
a[58] = 'This is occurs when the Windows system that you are presently using is holding open some files on the drive you are attempting to copy a system to. We now have a new version of SPIRIT32.EXE that is able to make the copy notwithstanding these open files. If you would like a copy of this please email us.';
q[59] = 'I have problems with passwords at login. This means that if someone else wants to use their system and I was the last one on it, to all intents and purposes they\'re locked out. I appreciate that HyperOs is not a dual/multi boot system, but if you put the startup disk in it will present you with all the systems available. Surely this could be integrated at startup just giving the user the opportunity to go straight to their system?';
a[59] = 'Meaningful Passwords apply mainly to NT 2K and XP systems. To interrupt the boot process into these systems just hit the F8 key every half second until the NTLDR boot menu appears. Then choose OS Choices. Then pick any NT 2K or XP system you wish to go to (FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS), and off you will go without having to load the last system you were in. Alternatively, pick "95 98 Me Systems" and then you will get a DOS list of all the 95 98 Me NT 2K and XP systems on your PC which are install in FAT16 and FAT32 partitions. Pick one of these and off you will go into that system without loading your last system first. We haven\'t automated this because it is a manual intervention process in any event.';
q[60] = 'Where on the Web can I speak to HyperOs users regarding FAQ\'s, support and general information?';
a[60] = 'Please visit our independent forum site at: <a href="http:\/\/www.hyperosforum.co.uk/hosf/index.php">http://www.hyperosforum.co.uk/hosf/index.php</a>';
q[61] = 'Can I run HyperOs on a Serial ATA HD?';
a[61] = 'Yes.';
q[62] = 'Can I use an external FireWire hard drive with HyperOs?';
a[62] = 'You cannot run a Windows system from an external HD but you can use it as a data drive with HyperOs. However you need to ensure you do the following:<BR><BR>Windows 95, 98, ME:  Plug the external HD in BEFORE you turn on your PC. This ensures that the external HD gets a drive letter before you CDs and DVDs.<BR><BR>Windows NT: Does support Firewire.<BR><BR>Windows 2000 and XP: Fire up Windows, then plug in the external HD, then open My Other Computers, and choose Tools - Reassign drive letters. This will shove the CD and DVD drive letters up one letter. Then you will be able to plug/unplug the external HD at will without altering your partition drive lettering.';
q[63] = 'My PC has two Master HDs, each on their own HD cable, on a dual SCSI type fast HD controller (such as Promise High Point or Adaptec controller). It also has (wouldn\'t you know) two further Master HDs each one their own cable in the two Motherboard IDE sockets. How do I use HyperOs with this configuration?';
a[63] = 'Set the BIOS to boot either the Motherboard IDE controlled disks first or the SCSI controlled disks first. Then either the first of the two IDE sockets or the first of the two SCSI sockets will boot first (depending on which type you chose in the BIOS). These sockets are labelled on the motherboard or SCSI card. The first partition on this HD that boots first will be your C: drive. Make this partition both Primary and active. All other partitions on this disk and on all other disks must be Logical.';
q[64] = 'Can I use multiple SCSI type controller cards, such as Promise, High Point, Adaptec RAID or FAST HDD controllers with HyperOs?';
a[64] = 'Yes you can. In this case PC will only boot from the HD which it detects first. You must determine which HD this is by starting your PC and examining the BIOS screens to see which SCSI Card is detected first. The first partition on the disk in the first socket on this card will be your C drive and must be primary and active. Partition Magic will normally get this right and call this first detected disk, "DISK 1". All other partitions on this disk and on all other disks must be Logical.';
q[65] = 'I have a High Point HD controller card, and HyperOs backs up my Windows systems very slowly and restores them incredibly quickly. Why is this?';
a[65] = 'There is a fight going on between the High Point Controller and HyperOs Spirit. It results from the intermediate RAM buffering that HyperOs Spirit employs. We are unilaterally resolving this conflict in the next build of HyperOs Spirit.';
q[66] = 'Suppose, for the sake of argument I wished to use the following system configuration:<BR>2x 120GB Serial ATA Hard drives (Stripping)<BR>4x 120GB ATA Raid on the RocketRaid 404 controller (Mirrored Striping)<BR>2x 80GB IDE hard drives<BR>1x 20GB Lacie external FireWire Hard Drive<BR>How would I go about this?';
a[66] = 'First: Plug in all your HD controller cards. Start the PC and determine which SCSI controller is detected first.<BR>Second: Plug in each HD into its appropriate controller card.<BR> Third: Start the PC and go into the BIOS of each SCSI controller card. Create/configure your RAID arrays as desired using these BIOS screens<BR>Fourth: Create your C drive on the first detected disk. Partition Magic will normally call this DISK 1. The C drive must be the very first partition on this disk and must be Primary and Active. All other partitions on this and on all other disks should be Logical.<BR>Fifth: Then simply install your desired Windows Operating system onto your C: drive, and then follow the instructions in the HyperOs Installation Guide.';
q[67] = 'I am using ARC Paths in Boot.ini in 2K or XP. I was running HyperOs on one HD on a SCSI type controller. Unfortunately I have just plugged a second HD into my IDE Motherboard controller, and I now am unable to boot any of my systems?';
a[67] = 'This is because BIOS has assigned your new IDE HD to be your first and bootable disk, \'Disk 0\' replacing your old SCSI controlled disk. Remove the new hard drive, boot into Windows, open \'My other Computers\', click \'Tools\', click \'Program Options\', and in the options menu, ensure that \'Use multi(x) ARC paths in Boot.ini is NOT ticked/checked.  Then reconnect your new IDE HD, and the simplified boot.ini format you are now using won\'t be affected by this change in HD hierarchy.';
q[68] = 'How do I back up and restore a Windows system to a Network Location with HyperOs?';
a[68] = 'Open My Other Computers, select a Windows system, hit the Backup button on the Tool Bar, choose whether you wish a sector image or a zip image, hit Browse, select the Network icon, pick a Network Location, click OK a couple of times and then HyperOs will either sector copy or zip your system to that Network Location. HyperOs can backup to or restore from a Network Location at over 1 Gigabyte per minute (so long as you have a Gigabit per second network, i.e. fast network cards). To restore, do the same as above but hit the Restore button rather than the Backup button.';
q[69] = 'Where can I have a look at customers opinions of HyperOs on the net?';
a[69] = 'You can see one of our customers views on our independent forum site at, <a href="http:\/\/www.hyperosforum.co.uk">http://www.hyperosforum.co.uk</a><br>or click one of these links to go straight to a customers posting,<br><a href="http:\/\/www.hyperosforum.co.uk/hosf/viewtopic.php?t=149">Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:27 pm Post subject: Brilliant system</a><br>or,<br><a href="http:\/\/www.hyperosforum.co.uk/hosf/viewtopic.php?t=165">Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 5:58 pm Post subject: AMAAAAAAZING</a>';
q[70] = 'When I swap systems from Windows 98 the screen goes black and I get a blinking cursor or, Windows 98 constantly runs a scandisk following each restart. Why is this?';
a[70] = 'There is a restart/shutdown bug in Windows 98 which occasionally manifests itself. Try Start - Shutdown - Restart. If Windows 98 crashes then you need to get the Microsoft patch for 98 restart and shutdown problems. For expert advice on all 98 restart and shutdown problems visit: <a href="http:\/\/www.aumha.org/a/shtdwnse.htm">http://www.aumha.org/a/shtdwnse.htm</a>. System swapping can also be inhibited by badly written Windows 98 drivers. One known offender is WXMSAPI.EXE a driver for a Xerox multifunction printer. To determine whether an application is causing this problem type MSCONFIG in the Run box of the Start Menu, and uncheck all applications other than Task Monitor, Power Profile and HyperOs Agent, then swap systems: ';
q[71] = 'When copying a system to or restoring a FAT16 image to a FAT16 partition I get: Old Disk Utility Write error. What should I do?';
a[71] = 'The error occurs when there is an open file on the partition you are writing to. In other words the Windows system you are one is doing something on the FAT16 drive you are copying or restoring to. The solution is to boot from a boot disk, then wipe the target drive, then go back into Windows and do the copy or the restore again.';
q[72] = 'What is the largest Partition size that Windows 95 98 Me will recognise?';
a[72] = '137GB. Windows 95 98 ME cannot recognise any partition larger than this! Beware if you have a 180GB disk!!!.';
q[73] = 'Where can I see an independent review of HyperOs 2003?';
a[73] = 'To see an independent review of HyperOs 2003, please click one of these links: <br><a href="http:\/\/www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/img/review1.gif">Industrial Technology Review.</a><br>or,<br><a href="http:\/\/www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/img/VSJreview3.gif">VSJ Review</a><br>or,<br><a href="http:\/\/www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/img/micromart_review.gif">micromart Review</a><br>or,<br><a href="http:\/\/www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/img/pcrad.gif">PCRetail Review</a>';
q[74] = 'When I install Windows 98SE on my new Hard Disk I get an SU0013 error, what does this mean?';
a[74] = 'This can be because your New Hard Disk has no Primary Partition.';
q[75] = 'When I try and start Partition Magic I get told that EZ drive is installed but not running, and PM doesn\'t then start. Why is this?';
a[75] = 'This is either true or it is due to an incorrect entry in your boot sector. Start your PC with a boot floppy and run Partition Magic from the HyperOs CD by navigating to the CD drive letter and then typing PQMAGIC.';
q[76] = 'My original Windows installation runs EZ Drive, I am concerned that this may mess up my System drive letters. Should I remove it before installing HyperOs?';
a[76] = 'Yes, Please remove EZ Drive, EZ bios, Ontrack disk manager, Maxblast, Pro-Drive and any other Dynamic Drive Overlay software before installing HyperOs or partitioning your HD. Norton Works also recommends that DDOs should be removed before altering your HD partitioning. It is unlikely that you will need a DDO when running HyperOs.';
q[77] = 'How many applications can 1 copy of Windows reliably run?';
a[77] = 'Please see our Windows reliability tests at: <a href="http:\/\/www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/labs.htm"target="_blank">HyperOs Systems lab Results</a>';
q[78] = 'My second Hard Disk is running from a PCI Hard Disk Card it has a Logical partition on it which is assigned the drive letter D, my Logical partitions on my first Hard Disk which is running on the Motherboard IDE socket are taking drive letters E onwards. Why is this?';
a[78] = 'This appears to be a bug in many PCI Hard Disk Controller BIOSes. They should take logical partition drive letters after your first hard disk logical partitions but they do not. We are taking up this with PCI controller card Manufacturers. Some cards have BIOSes which can be entered using "crtl/H" (or the likes) which can program the card to be non-bootable. This option will normally solve the problem. Otherwise, in the meantime all we can suggest is that you put your first Hard Disk on your PCI controller card!';
q[79] = 'I get Partition Magic error 89, EZ-Drive has been detected on drive X, but EZ-Drive is not running!';
a[79] = 'Visit: <a href="http:\/\/www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id1609.cfm"target="_blank">www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id1609.cfm</a> They have a utility called EZSIG.EXE which removes the EZ drive signature from your Master Boot Record.';
q[80] = 'I have a first HD on the motherboard IDE and a second on a fast Hard Disk Controller, The first partition on the second hard disk insists on being D even though it is Logical, what can I do?';
a[80] = 'Try setting the fast HD controller to be non bootable if it has an adjustable BIOS. If you cannot then you will have to make the second disk into the first or not use the fast HD controller.';
q[81] = 'Should I install 95 98 ME in the Microsoft default named (forward slash) WINDOWS folder or can I use a non standard windows folder with HyperOs?'; 
a[81] = 'HyperOs expects Windows to be in the default folder so with 95 98 ME please accept the default name of (forward slash) WINDOWS and with NT 2K XP 2003 please accept the default names of either (forward slash) WINDOWS or (forward slash) WINNT.';
q[82] = 'Why is it that since upgrading to HyperOs 2004 FE I have lost partition N: ?'; 
a[82] = 'This is because 2004 FE counts the D: drive as an OS partition therefore taking you up to M: counting your 11th partition. However you can boot to this partition by restarting your PC with a 98 floppy disk to boot DOS then when at the A: prompt type, C: (enter), system N: remove floppy disk and hit enter.';
q[83] = 'How do I clone N: to D: when I can\'t see N: in My Other Computers?'; 
a[83] = 'Just copy the contents of N: to D: using my computer or Windows Explorer, then boot to D:';
q[84] = 'When I backup a documents drive I receive a message asking me to run on that partition before I back it up?'; 
a[84] = 'If you find that when you backup a documents drive you receive a message asking you to run on that partition before you back it up this is because you have inadvertently put a (forward slash) Windows or (forward slash) Winnt folder on that drive. We have a new SYSIMAGE.BAT file that looks for the Kernel rather than Windows directory. Please email us if you wish to have this file.';
q[85] = 'I have the 16 BIT MS DOS Subsystem error, "C:\windows\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT is not suitable for MS DOS please do the following"?'; 
a[85] = 'Either from Windows or from DOS open the AUTOEXEC.NT from C:\windows\SYSTEM32. Where it says The following line enables Sound Blaster 2.0 support on NTVDM. make sure all sentences after this have REM and a space before each sentence thereafter.';
q[86] = 'I have just installed an upgrade of HyperOs 2004FE and now none of my Systems will boot, is there anything simple I can try to fix this problem?'; 
a[86] = 'Please boot to a DOS prompt (using either a windows 98SE boot floppy or CD) at the A: prompt type C: and hit enter. Now you will be presented with a C: Now type CD HYPER and hit enter. now type REN ARCPATHS.USE ARCPATHSXX.USE and hit enter. Finally type SYSTEM C: and hit enter, this will reboot into your C: installation of Windows (you may need to change this letter depending on where you have installed your Windows Systems). Your systems should boot up correctly.';

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