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Changing Drive Letter of Active Partition
MerlinTheWizard replied to debeast's topic in Windows 2000/2003/NT4
What's the program you used to clone your partition? This is the main issue here. I bet if you had used the proper options, you wouldn't have ended up with and "E" drive... -
Why would you want that? Windows Server 2003 isn't meant to be a "toy" OS.
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how to creat a new partition in sever 2003?
MerlinTheWizard replied to Leon2003's topic in Windows 2000/2003/NT4
Not so. Even the stand-alone floppy version doesn't want to run if it detects a Windows Server OS on any existing partition (NT server, 2000 S and AS, 2003...) -
Hiya, Seems like WMP9 won't play streaming radio (http://.......) anymore (I'm guessing since the last security update?) on Windows 2003 standard. Anyone having an idea?
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Disabling the "computer has been locked"
MerlinTheWizard replied to MerlinTheWizard's topic in Windows 2000/2003/NT4
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Disabling the "computer has been locked"
MerlinTheWizard replied to MerlinTheWizard's topic in Windows 2000/2003/NT4
nope, it's not that. Already unchecked. It's when the computer goes to stand-by (not just the display, but the whole computer). Tricky! -
Hi, as the title says: I'd like to find a way to disable the "this computer has been locked...." when resuming from stand-by on Windows 2003 standard. I've disabled it for most cases, except the above one. Any hints?
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Crapped out on him? How could that happen?
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Try another PSU. A lot of such hardware issues are caused by a faulty power supply.
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Indeed, it only works with NTFS. By the way, there is no reason whatsoever to use FAT32 on Win NT/2000/XP. Enough said. ;-)
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I ran across this specific bug once or twice. It turns out some characters are not properly handled in file names on NTFS (but I think I've seen this on FAT32 as well). In this case, the file is indeed listed (either by DIR or in explorer), but can't be found by its name. The trick to delete it is to delete the parent directory (ie. the directory where it sits in) in a command line prompt: RMDIR /S <dir. name>. In this case, the system doesn't rely on subsequent file names in the directory tree to delete them all; only the parent directory name. It probably parses the directory tree directly by internal references, thus it works. Of course, if the directory in question contains any other files you want to keep, move these other files to a safe place before removing the directory. If the offensive file is not sitting in a directory but is at the root of a partition, you're screwed as far as I think. But my trick works 99% of the time.
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Unless you installed 2000 and XP both on primary partitions invisible to each other, they share a common "boot loader" (ntldr). This is why you always have to install the more recent version AFTER the older one. The Windows 2000 boot loader is not able to boot Windows XP, and when you re-installed 2000, it overwrote the newer boot loader. Anyway, I think this is the problem. Try fixing the problem by booting on the Windows XP CD and "repairing" the XP install.
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I didn't have any problem myself. MS VS .Net 2003 runs without a hitch on Windows 2003. I use it extensively all the time, even. I don't know about earlier versions of VS .Net, since they probably were out before Windows 2003 itself. Like it's been said before, though, your definite best bet is to install a Standard version of Windows 2003. There is no real difference between a Windows 2003 Standard and an XP Pro, except for some improvements, and the fact you have to tweak some options right after installing it. You might just want to check that out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....equirements.asp
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As far as I know, dynamic discs are not supported by neither Partition Magic nor PartitionExpert...
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Of course. Windows 2003 is not supported by any Powerquest (well, now Symantec, as it seems) product - yet. Will it ever? Who knows, now that Symantec bought Powerquest. I don't know either. So far, I've been satisfied with Acronis PartitionExpert. I think there was an earlier version that was a bit buggy, but the latest has been working fine so far... There is also a partitioning product by Paragon which supports Windows 2003. As far as I know, those are the only such two products that exist for now.
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What do you guys think of Acronis PartitionExpert 2003? Is it reliable? Does it compare well to Partition Magic 8? I've tried it and it seems fine, but I have a lot more experience with PM8.
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I suspect a bad device driver that prevents normal functioning of the clock. Can you tell us more about your config? Also, try updating drivers.
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Moving h/d from win2k3 to winxp problems
MerlinTheWizard replied to garmons's topic in Windows 2000/2003/NT4
I don't have a lot of experience using different versions of NTFS on different Windows versions, but I think you might have a security problem. The partition you're trying to access may not be accessible without the proper permissions. You might want to check this out: "Access is Denied" Error Message -
I second that.
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IE6 in Windows 2003, favicons...
MerlinTheWizard replied to MerlinTheWizard's topic in Windows 2000/2003/NT4
Oh, I know... I also suggest using Mozilla. I use Mozilla Thunderbird for my e-mail and news, but I still use IE for the Web most of the time, for technical reasons... But you're right, Mozilla Firefox is the answer. -
IE6 in Windows 2003, favicons...
MerlinTheWizard replied to MerlinTheWizard's topic in Windows 2000/2003/NT4
Well, true, but in IE6 on Windows 2000, I didn't seem to have this problem: I mean, when the cache would be cleared, I'd lose the favicons, but they would come back once I'd visit the web pages back. Here, they never seem to come back again. Oh well. I know if I want permanent favicons, I can save them to a local directory and change my favorites' icons to theses. To me, the most urgent thing to fix in IE would be a preference to allow pop-up windows blocking... like in Mozilla. -
I have read it has been noticed before, but there is definitely a big problem with favicons on Windows 2003/IE6. IE6 loses the favicons after a while (presumably whenever the cache is cleared), which is normal behavior... but it can never get them back even when you re-visit the corresponding web pages... I've noticed that if you dragged the leftmost icon in the address bar and dropped it 2-3 times, the favicon would (most of the time, not quite always) come back upon the next restart of IE6. But, it would disappear again after rebooting Windows... Besides, the default icon (the blue "e") in the Favorites menu is then sometimes a little different from the normal default icon: there is a slight black line in the middle of the "e" (under the horizontal bar of the letter). Has anybody noticed this bug?
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As the title suggests: I noticed some kind of "weird" behavior of the "Task Manager" on my comp. which has Hyperthreading enabled. The "CPU time" column for the "System Idle Process" is double what it should be and goes twice as fast as the "natural time" (2 s for 1 s of time). Is this the same for everyone else? (I didn't find anything about this on MS's web site or in the docs). After all, it's kind of understandable, what does a global "CPU time" mean for a pseudo-multiprocessor system? How is time counted when the "Idle Process" has two threads which can "run" concurrently (although they don't do anything since they are idle)? But I still think this is a bug in the Task Manager, which obviously isn't that clever at handling Hyperthreading. Anything to say about that? I know it's just a little detail (hoping this is just a display detail and not the sign of a bigger bug), but I'm still curious... For people who are running Windows XP with a P4/HT, is this the same?
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VS .Net works just fine on Windows 2003 Standard.