Recent content by Marine

I hope that MS doesn't monitor this thread, but I have a copy of XP Pro that I have installed and reinstalled at least 20 times. I should note all on my own three computers and not for commercial use. But in all these activations I have never encountered a problem or had to call MS for...

When you install XP you have an option to upgrade during the install,providing you have an internet connection established. I don't understand why you wouldn't want to install SP2 if you are going with XP...it's free D/L from MS.

I think that you are over looking a terrific OS without all the XP baggage. I recommend highly that with the specs you are using that Windows 2000 will be a perfect fit for you. It has a relatively small footprint and all the functionality of 98 and XP without the superfluous frills. Try it...

I know a lot of articles lately have advocated the point that SCSI has been overtaken by fast IDE and SATA solutions. So, on my antiquated machine with both protocols, I ran the Quick Bench test separately on the two RAID storage profiles I have in this machine. The first is two IBM DeskStar...

Sorry, pls disregard. See note same topic. dlk

I'm not even going to try to explain. Anyone else?

In fact a better idea would be to spend $12 for a floppy and make the install disks as recommended. Then you won't have to deal with slave to master settings.

Are you sure you're booting from the CD and not the floppy? If you have a floppy in the drive and the machine is trying to boot from it, you may get that message. Do you get the "BOOTABLE CD" message while the machine is running through setup? Usually there's a line that says to boot from...

In Win XP Pro using Disk Management I installed a new IDE array for storage. Now, I now have my U320 SCSI RAID array as boot and my 1200A ATA array for storage. When I formatted and configured the new array, I partioned it into two equal 110GB partitions. Unsure of what type of partition to...

Again, I now have my U320 SCSI RAID array as boot and my 1200A ATA array for storage. When I formatted and configured the new array, I partioned it into two equal 110GB partitions. Unsure of what type of partition to create, I created one logical partition and one primary partition. Both seem...

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I had a great CUSL baseboard and with good RAM and cooling, I could run a 1.0GHz PIII all day long at 1.2. Bumped up the volts a bit and it was very stable. Felt great to run a 20% O/C, but you know, I couldn't really tell it day to day unless I ran a benchmark. You didn't say what you want...

You can "merge" two drives -- that is not lose the data on one drive if you build a RAID1 array. But, your larger problem is that you have an IDE drive and you are adding (apparently) a Serial ATA drive. You cannot build a RAID array from disimilar controllers. Another IDE drive would work...

You know how small really fast SCSI hard drives are and really expensive? Well, I had mine set up in RAID 1 and rapidly ran out of storage space. I bought two WD 120GB HDDs and after unsuccessfully flailing around with the onboard IDE RAID, I finally got my additional disks to work with the...

As you know, with XP one can assign most any drive letter without problem. As I said, on this machine, I will have only one OS and that is on a completely different RAID array (SCSI). This IDE array is simply for fast storage. Do you recommend then, that I delete the primary partition on my...