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Migrating from non Raid SATA to Raid 0+1 SATA
I have a small non raid sata drive and want to migrate to a raid 0+1 raid
solution with two identiacal larger drives.
My system is Mainboard: ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe; Intel 875P MCH, ICH5R, Promise
PDC20378. As far as I have been able to figurate the Promise solution is the
one for me in order to achieve Raid 0+1. If I could I would rather prefer
Raid 5 with three drives, but I haven’t bee...
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7/7/2007 7:44:01 AM |
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Automatic updates cause system instability
I just did a fresh install of XP. My XP installation CD is pretty ancient,
pre-SP1. Everything goes fine, right up through installing SP2, but when
Automatic Updates does the next install after SP2, the OS freezes during
initialization after the restart. I was using an old hand-me-down hard drive
at first, so I thought maybe it was losing data integrity. I wanted a bigger
one anyway, so ...
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7/7/2007 7:07:10 AM |
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XP Pro, installation
Hi everyone,
needing help i installed xp pro Wenesday, everything went fine,
yesterday after activation fault showed as follows.
" reader_sl.exe - Unable to locate component ". This application has failed
to start because MSCP71.dll was not found.
Re-installing the application may fix this problem. I looked at this
mscp71.dll on another unit , XP Home i don't know if the
con...
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7/6/2007 1:04:05 PM |
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Loading XP Home - failure message at format
I am attempting to reload XP Home on a new disk 120 gig Western Digital
following a hard disk failure. The XP version is 2002 (an early issue).
At first attempt have received the blue shutdown screen 'to prevent damage'
as it was about to format the disk.
Errors were:
STOP: 0x000000 8E(0xC0000005, 0xF77C4C0B, 0xF73D5800, 0x00000000
setupdd.sys - address F77C4C0b base at F779B000, DateStamp...
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7/6/2007 7:40:00 AM |
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To give LISTof Wirelss Networks,which Win32 cmd in cmd prompt is u
Hi,
I add wireless network cart to my pc slot. I setup wireless area network and
run regularly. My pc operating system is WINDIWS XP Service Pack 2.
Network Connections -> Wireless Area Network -> (Right Click)Properties ->
(Tab) Wireless Networks page -> (click button) Display Wireless Networks.
When "Display Wireless Networks" button is clicked, the LIST of all detected
...
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7/6/2007 1:19:13 AM |
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administrator password when repairing XP
I had a hard disk problem, afterwards the file windows/system32/config/system
was corrupted and I had to reinstall and repair XP Home. At a certain moment
I got stuck because XP keeps asking me the administrator password (which I
never defined) in order to finish the job. Blank is not valid. I tried to
look in the setupact.log but no reference to password changes....
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7/6/2007 1:10:41 AM |
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Cloning XP Pro (legally)... and failing !
To start with :
-I have a first PC (call it "A") running XP Pro International English
(version 2002), 4 years without a problem. SP2 has been added to it in due
time. Many many applications for my work environment.
-I buy a computer "B", same motherboard as A, different version of CPU, HDD
and DRAM. I want my assistant to find on it the exact same work environment I
have on A. For B I bu...
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7/5/2007 10:15:00 PM |
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Renaming Machine Issue
I am trying to rename a laptop that is on a workgroup, but it is telling me
"Access is Denied". I've tried running newsid to change the comp name, but
it doesn't change it. Is there any way to fix this issue or at least find
out why it is doing this?
Thank you in advance....
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7/5/2007 1:42:01 PM |
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Windows XP Weird Crash
I'm new to NTFS systems and Win XP in particular, so I'll just
describe what happened to me, and hope someone may help with a an
advice if not on recovering, at least on preventing future problems
of
this kind.
I'm running a WinXP (5.1) and have a broadband Internet connection,
protected by ZoneAlarm and NOD32's Internet security module. Since I
had my Internet connection installed the co...
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7/5/2007 10:59:24 AM |
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no sound in any player on website
I'm runnig on XP service pack2 and installed a media player classic with
K-lite pack and quicktime alternative to use on Winavi video converter, after
installation ,all this pop up questions stated detected broken codes and
recommend removed, and I did, when playing rm files in media player classic,
the sound was great, then I notice everytime I open or closed a site or
programs there is...
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7/5/2007 7:40:01 AM |
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which cmd for Windows XP instead of "netsh wlan show all" on MS Vi
Hello,
"netsh wlan" command prompt is run only MS Vista. When "netsh wlan show all"
command is running on MS Vista command prompt, it displays list of all the
WLAN network connections. This LIST is important for me.
I develop my software on Windows XP Service Pack 2 and which command can ı
use instead of "netsh wlan show all" to gain THIS LIST.
Is it possible to upgrade "netsh" com...
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7/5/2007 6:32:02 AM |
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BOOTMGR not found
Trying to reset up a drive that has been formatted. However, No matter how I
try and boot it, all I recieve is the black screen that says BOOTMGR not
found, CTRL ALT DELETE to restart.
I've tried booting from 2 different windows cd's, but can't get anything to
push past this screen.
It's been along time, and I'm getting frustrated. Any help or suggestions?
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7/5/2007 5:12:00 AM |
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PXE-E51
Hi
I don't get an IP on some PCs when booting from LAN (all those PCs have the
same NIC, so I think it's because of this... but this doesn't help me,
because they are onboard)... so, I get a PXE-E51 -> "no DHCP or proxyDHCP
offers were received" ... what can I do? I try to use a WDS and until now it
always worked... but not for the new machines...
It seems that a lot of people have ...
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7/4/2007 9:12:17 PM |
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using BDD 2007 to deploy applications
Helo,
can i use BDD 2007 just to deploy software (ex: bdd 2007), without deploying
an OS?
thnk you. ...
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7/4/2007 3:14:02 PM |
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How to apply legal license to transferred clone?
"sai.an" has successfully cloned his installed WinXP OS onto another
HD, and it tests out OK on the original system. Now he wants to
transfer the HD that contains the clone into a similar system, for which
he has purchased another license. What is the procedure, and will
there be any problems? I would expect that he will have to at least
re-activate the clone OS because it will see the cha...
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7/4/2007 12:56:54 AM |
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Shortcut creation with no arrow and cannot be deleted
I need help in creating an shortcut on a user’s desktop that cannot be
deleted nor has a shortcut arrow on it. Similar to how AOL puts their
shortcut icon on user’s desktops. I am specifically looking at way to
manipulate the registry to do this. The other icons on the desktop can keep
their shortcut arrows. I just want to manipulate this one specific shortcut.
The ability to right-c...
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7/3/2007 9:56:16 PM |
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Bluetooth is not in control panel
I run serv pack 2, when i look in control panel there is no icon, when i look
in divice manager nothing there for blue tooth.
have looked on all help and cannot find a soultion as to how to get this on pc
any ideas...
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7/3/2007 7:01:12 PM |
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Windows Genuine Advantage CD does not install
Message: I received the Windows Genuine Advantage disc: Microsoft Order
Complete (Important - Contains Product Information) -- Order Number:
01112014942245. After installing the email download version, I upgraded the
hard drive on the Compaq Armada E500 from 40Gb to 12Gb and installed W 2000,
because it requires four floppy boot discs before reading the W2000 CD which
installed okay.
Wh...
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7/3/2007 6:20:05 PM |
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Hot Hardware News
Hardware news. Hardware reviews. Hardware tips.
http://tophardware-news.blogspot.com/
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7/2/2007 12:00:38 PM |
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XP Pro Showing Task Manager not Windows Security window
Hi,
I've got a really strange problem where a Windows XP Pro machine joined to a
domain is displaying the Task Manager rather than the Windows Security Window
when CTRL+ALT+DEL is pressed.
Normally this happens when the machine isn't in on a Domain, but this one
is. Since it's in Domain mode, there isn't the option of displaying the
Welcome screen (which is usually how you'd change t...
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7/2/2007 10:14:01 AM |
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Windows Installation From USB Device, Not CD!
I have this interesting problem, this barebone system that i need to repair
has no FDD or CD Rom, nor can just plug one in... it had a recovery partition
but that went when the hard drive crashed, the bios supports booting from USB
& Lan, so i need a solution to deploy WindowsXP Setup files to this computer
Install from USB Key -> HDD would be the prefferd method if possible...
Any ...
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7/1/2007 3:16:21 PM |
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Tips to identify hardware model?
I would like to automate the WDS process of identifying the model of the
destination machine....how do I do this?
I will create multiple WIMs using WDS but I need to automate the process
when I deploy the image to a machine....my idea is
1. WinPE roles to the destination machine,
2. identifies the machine model (my stumbling block), and then
3. apply the proper image.
The ques...
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7/1/2007 11:52:50 AM |
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Validating windows
I am having serious praoblems validating Windows in order to download a media
player codec. It was suggested that I uninstall Explorer 7 which I did but
this has not helped and now I can't reinstall EX7. I do not get the ActiveX
window when I try to validate my version of Windows. Now using the alternate
method gets me to page saying that page cannot be displayed....
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6/30/2007 10:25:16 PM |
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The nitty gritty of XP boot loaders (VERY LONG!)
I just spent quite a lot of time troubleshooting a weird XP boot problem and
finally fixed it, but it left me with many questions. If I'd known the
answers to a few of these, I might have figured it out sooner. I'm pretty
experienced at various OS and boot configurations, but this one had me
stumped.
Quick rundown of config: My computer has 3 hard drives, an older PATA drive
attache...
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6/30/2007 9:59:41 PM |
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Users and Groups with XP Home
I'm running into a problem with XP Home on our volunteer center's PC's. The
Users and Groups utility with XP Home only allows "Administrator" and
"Limited User". I don't want to have our students logging in with
"Administrator" rights. But the "Limited User" profile won't allow some
tutorial programs to run that I want the students to be able to use.
Is there a way to install the Micros...
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6/30/2007 9:04:02 PM |