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  1. J

    I made my old laptop drive into a portable one

    Best bet is to just to format the disk or if needed repartition the disk then format it.
  2. J

    Backup Strategy?

    We have much the same system, but we use a NAS box which is connected to the ADIC which has 4 drives and 16 slots, we are currently backing up arround 800gb of data every night which takes arround 12 hours. We operate a system of incremental daily backups and then full backups at weekends with a...
  3. J

    HOWTO: Installing multiple OSes *my* way

    Sounds like you need to edit the Boot.ini file and add 2003 to it.
  4. J

    create raid without floppy drive?

    To my knowledge XP and prior won't scan a CD for RAID drivers on install (F6 on CD boot), if your adding the RAID as extra storage then you should have no problems loading the drivers off the CD from in windows.
  5. J

    Windows Xp restart leads to no post on bootup

    Might be reading this wrong but sounds to me like something is crashing on shutdown, my machine switches the video off before windows has completly shutdown which is what you could be experiencing. As you say it only does it sometimes and on restarts its gonna be hard to spot the problem. Hate...
  6. J

    MY COMPUTER WONT START!!

    Sorry about your drive mate, if its less than 3years old you may find it still have a manufatures waranty. As for the hacker, let it fly, I highly doubt he did it but maybe it will put him off doing it again :)
  7. J

    Please help with my Serial HD and WinXP

    The P stands for Paralell ATA, S stands for Serial ATA. As for the drivers you need to extract the downloaded file and copy the files from the dir containg the txtsetup.oem file (copy dir contense not the dir to the floppy) there are 2 version of the driver one if your using raid Si33112r and...
  8. J

    gah, wtf won't my external HDD show in windows.

    Well at least it detects it, do you still have the old drive to hand that you could swap over again? Also did you format the drive in the pc before putting it in the case? I assume the IDE connector is notched so its in the right way and you connecting it via USB2, apart from that I'm sort of...
  9. J

    gah, wtf won't my external HDD show in windows.

    K, :/ is your USB controller showing anything connected to it in device manager, you also mentioned your laptop before, have you tried it on that aswell? EDIT : Change the View to by connection.
  10. J

    PSU disaster - finnaly replaced and now more problems.

    LOL amazing, wish I had your money. Guess your the sort person that throws things away cause the battries are dead. I for one can't afford to buy a new pc everytime something fails.
  11. J

    gah, wtf won't my external HDD show in windows.

    Is the device showing in device manager, mine show up under "Disk drives" ?
  12. J

    WinXP 'System Cache'

    Ah now I see, make more sence, the only other question is I have 248MB of swap file in use according to the same screen, why so much dumped to disk (espcially when you consider that adding the PF Usage to the System Cache gives you the total memory) ?
  13. J

    gah, wtf won't my external HDD show in windows.

    Did you get anything at all when you connected the drive (windows plays a tune when hardware is connected), does the drive sound like its powered up?
  14. J

    PSU disaster - finnaly replaced and now more problems.

    WOW really helpful mate :/
  15. J

    PSU disaster - finnaly replaced and now more problems.

    Something I found works in the past is to remove the system memory, some mobo don't fire up at all if the memory is bad. Try none, you might get beeps, if you do try a single stick and then swap them to see if it works with either.
  16. J

    MY COMPUTER WONT START!!

    Totaly agree, if its the drive it will fail in the other machine, if not its down to your bios settings or worst possible case IDE controller (as the drive was working before). I'm assuming that you ment you left the machine on in windows and came back to a black screen with the message on?
  17. J

    WinXP 'System Cache'

    Sorry but I'm not convinced, if it applies to Disk caching then it would be a total waste of time. as on my system I get : Total 1047992 Available 729176 System Cache 763312 Which would mean that the disk cache is being paged out to the swap file, which would make no sence at all. And...
  18. J

    gah, wtf won't my external HDD show in windows.

    You don't state what the external case is, make etc. Drive should be master, try powering down, disconnecting the usb from the drive, boot the pc and with the external drive powered up plug the usb in. Windows should detect it and set a drive letter. Does it show on on the taskbar icons...
  19. J

    Idea for Group Based DynDNS

    Sounds like a thread I would like to see a solution to. My concern would be the security issues with the changing IP, last thing I'd want is someone spoofing a change in address and gaining access.
  20. J

    HELp WINDOWS WON"T BOOT

    Are you not able to 'take ownership' of the files from the security settings? (as an administrator)
  21. J

    Sister changed DPI settings...

    No prob mate, glad to help. :)
  22. J

    A Boot Partition?

    Your best bet is to have a single disk/partition for windows and program files. Then a second disk/partition for your personal files. One of the bigest advantages of this is that you can trash your 'boot' disk and still have your files. Also if the personal area is a Disk rather than a patition...
  23. J

    Sister changed DPI settings...

    If it works in safe mode its probably an issue with your display drivers, and they might need reinstalling.
  24. J

    Sister changed DPI settings...

    whats the run dll error message?
  25. J

    Sister changed DPI settings...

    The procedure is as follows: Right-click desktop, and press R, press Shift-CTRL-TAB then ALT-V, press up arrow then hit ENTER, press up arrow again the hit Enter, press ALT-Y then ENTER and reboot. That should reset back to standard 96 DPI.
  26. J

    WinXP 'System Cache'

    Ok, seen a lot of posts on the internet about things like this but none that answer my question. Most of the posts seem to be centered around the system cache settings like the ones in the advaced tab near the page file settings. The one I'm looking at is the one in Task Manager, so before...