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  1. I've never heard of Drive2Drive, but XXCopy is a pretty well established utility. Have a look at this and see if it helps: http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy10.htm I don't use FDISK so I don't know what its limitations are. I've heard of a utility called Super FDISK but I don't know anything about it I use Norton's GDISK, which has no trouble with larger partitions.
  2. Thanks for the reply. I don't have a router, the PC is connected directly to a cable modem. The ipconfig /renew command didn't work. I can see what the problem is, I just don't know what to do to fix it. It can't connect to the DHCP server, it just sits there until it times out. Here's a ipconfig /all copy & paste. Apparently the 169.254.x.x IP address is an internal Windows address that means the connection isn't working. Great, but what's my next step? C:\>ipconfig /all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : test-44349101 Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1D-7D-E5-B9-D9 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.252.106 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : C:\>ipconfig /release Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : C:\>ipconfig /renew Windows IP Configuration An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Connection : unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.
  3. I've had a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard for several months that I was planning on building a system around but just haven't yet. I've installed XP quite a few times but haven't activated it yet. Up until now I've had no issues. Yesterday I installed XP again and I couldn't get online. The network icon on the taskbar shows a little red blip moving between the two computers, and when you hover the cursor over it it says it's trying to acquire a network address, which it fails to do. It then shows a yellow exclamation point over it and says "This connection has limited or no connectivity." I clicked on the 'repair' option, and that fails because it says it can't renew the IP address. I downloaded a diagnostic program from the Realtek site, but it didn't didn't find any issues, nor are any problems showing up in Device Manager, and I know it's not the cable. Where do I go from here? Thanks.
  4. The free version of XPLite has a way of disabling or turning off WFP. It worked on SP2. They have a newer version out now for SP3 although I haven't used it. http://www.litepc.com/xppreview.html
  5. Re: cluster sizes - in XP you can choose the cluster size you want when you format a drive/partition. If you have a dedicated partition for your large video files just choose the largest cluster size.
  6. Here's a comparison of the features of both XXCOPY and ROBOCOPY: http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy30.htm
  7. Here's another. Command line only, but it has an excellent help file: http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm
  8. E-66

    arrgh

    Yes, please read the rules.http://www.msfn.org/board/Welcome-to-the-f...823#entry269823
  9. E-66

    small question

    http://www.msfn.org/board/Welcome-to-the-f...823#entry269823
  10. http://www.msfn.org/board/Welcome-to-the-f...823#entry269823 Good luck.
  11. 1. This should be in the Software forum. 2. It would help if you mentioned what you've tried so people don't waste time telling you about programs you're already familiar with.
  12. Are the 226BWs still being made? If not, any idea which model has superceded them?
  13. The fact that you've been registered here for over 2 years and still used such a vague subject line for your thread is also amazing. http://www.msfn.org/board/Welcome-to-the-f...823#entry269823
  14. And please work on your subject lines as well. You've started two thread with very ambiguous titles. http://www.msfn.org/board/Welcome-to-the-f...823#entry269823
  15. Just an FYI - it appears that v1.4.7 has solved the issues I was having installing with the winnnt.exe method. No more errors in Event Log, and all services appear to have been installed. Event Log does show several warnings about 'event 5603' but this seems to fairly well documented and apparently a non-issue. I would think these warnings would show up even if installing XP without using nLite, but I'll install it that way later today and verify. Thanks, Nuhi, for updating nLite for the few of us who use this 'dinosaur' method of installing XP.
  16. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133191-p...cs/article.html
  17. To every single one of them? No way. Several were current threads.
  18. Yep. Here are two websites with a couple ways of slipstreaming by command line. No doubt Google would find dozens more. http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/S...ice_Pack_3.html http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xpsp3_slipstream.asp
  19. E-66

    Question

    Welcome to planet Earth... http://www.msfn.org/board/Welcome-to-the-f...823#entry269823
  20. E-66

    User Profile Problem

    Read the part about thread subject lines, and then please edit yours... http://www.msfn.org/board/Welcome-to-the-f...823#entry269823
  21. Dammit, I knew I should have made bookmarks to the threads I subscribed to. This really blows. Stopped getting notifications a few days ago. Signed on just now to check the at least 30 topics I was following and they're all gone, every single one of them. I'm the only one using this PC, and I know I didn't accidentally delete them. Has this happened to anyone else?
  22. Here's a preset that doesn't work using winnt.exe with nLite v1.4.6. Why is using winnt.exe so uncommon? It's quicker to install from a separate partition on an HDD than it is from a CD. And with a CD, if you find that you left something out of your configuration/preset, you have to toss it and start over again. Just seems rather inefficient and wasteful. Last_Session.ini
  23. Yep, same here, v1.4.6 unfortunately hasn't helped. I use the winnt.exe method for installs and haven't had any trouble whatsoever prior to SP3. With SP3 slipstreamed into a clean SP2 source I've been having the same issues that others have been having, like missing services.Additionally, several system tweaks I selected have been ignored, like System Restore not being turned off, none of the My Computer right-click context menu entries I selected showed up, none of the 'show in My Computer' additions I selected showed up, and WordPad has gone AWOL. Can't complain too much because of how much effort Nuhi has put into nLite, but it's still disappointing. Not to be taken personally of course.
  24. Read the part about thread subject lines, and then please edit yours... http://www.msfn.org/board/Welcome-to-the-f...823#entry269823
  25. The menu looks identical to the one in the link in my first post except that it only has the two options I mentioned. I've been fooling around with this some more and I don't think it has anything to do with SP3, I think it has to do with the way I delete all the information on the partition before I do another install. The HDD I'm using has a small primary partition and several logical partitions, one of which I install Windows on. Normally when I want to do another test install I put the HDD into another PC and then use Explorer to delete all the files on the Windows partition. Then I put the HDD back in the original PC and install from DOS and everything goes as planned. This last time, in order to save some time from moving the HDD to a different PC, I booted from a CD that has some system tools on it and deleted the files on the Windows partition that way. Then I rebooted and attempted to install from DOS as I normally do but got the menu with 2 options for formatting instead of the one with 4. I think using the system tools CD to delete the files on the Windows partition has something to do with it. During the install, prior to getting to the formatting menu, you come to the screen where you select which partition to install onto. If I select the logical partition I normally choose - the one I deleted the files from with the sytem tools CD - then the next screen only has the menu with 2 options for formatting. If I select any other logical partition I get the menu with 4 options I'm used to seeing. All I'm doing with the system tools boot CD is using a file explorer, doing a Ctrl-A to select all the files/folders on the partition, and deleting them. I don't know why the partition would look any 'different' during the subsequent XP install than it does when I use the other method of deleting the files & folders, but apparently it does.
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