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Windows 2000 and XP supports two types of disk storage: basic storage and dynamic storage. A physical disk must be either basic or dynamic... Basic Disks: The industry standard is basic storage. It dictates the division of a hard disk into partitions. A partition is a portion of the disk that functions as a physically separate unit of storage. A basic disk can contain primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives. New disks added to a computer are basic disks.. Only Windows 2000 and XP and 2003 Server systems support dynamic storage. To support dynamic storage, a single partition is created that includes the entire disk. Dynamic disks: are divided into volumes, which can consist of a portion or portions of one or more physical disks. A dynamic disk can contain simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped volumes (RAID-0), mirrored volumes (RAID-1), and striped with parity volumes (RAID-5). You create a dynamic disk by upgrading a basic disk. You can use software raid on dynamic disks which isn't situation for basic disks.. Hope that helps..

Or you can access boot.ini file through My Computer properties -> advanced -> startup & recovery settings..

I've downloaded it and so far it looks fine

Yes

I've installed it on my computer at work and at home, both computers are working perfectly...

When I click on the second link I have the option to download WMP 10 but that link redirect me to download WMP 9 ??? The first link works fine which directly opens the download window...

According to my knowledge, if they are not using gateway to connect to the internet the computers don't need to have gateway entered... Correct me if I'm wrong..

Try to clean everything from startup folder, seems that some program is giving you a bottleneck.. Although this looks to me like a hard disk error.. I agree with unicorn, try to scan your disk for errors

Now that's what I call an explanation

Set subnet mask to 24 bit adress (255.255.255.0) Anyway your settings should work, very strange..

That's because windows notifies you only when critical updates are available.. SP2 still doesn't have any new critical updates available.

This could be an IRQ problem, try to reassign IRQ-s u BIOS..

I've downloaded it also, but forgot to tell you THNX!

This has to be a firewall problem, are you really sure that you've disabled it..

Cheer up man, we'll find a way

That was the answer I was looking for Some time ago, in the times of windows millenium I had the similiar problem which was fixed with scanreg /restore command... And now I was so dumb and couldn't remember that I have to use command prompt with F8, so I've booted the system using winme startup disk and try to run this command from the floppy.. After backing up all the data which was done by connecting hard disk to another computer, reinstallation was next... I've reinstalled windows and forgot to install support for central european languages, so all documents which had croatian signs couldn't be opened... total disaster Everything's fine now but I just wanted to give you all a summary..

I'm also searching for the good backup and imaging tool, so I'm considering to download a free trial of Acronis as prathapml have it suggested.. Also I'm considering Ghost 9... Hmmm...

You can access boot.ini file through my computer properties --> advanced --> startup and recovery settings... I agree with astalavista..

this is XPSP2 compatibility issue for sure

I've started the system with WinMe startup disk and run scandisk command... some errors where fixed... but then I tried to run scanreg command it says "bad command or file name" what now?

My frend brought me a WinMe computer which has the next problem: When you try to boot it stops at window millenium startup options where you can choose: 1.safe mode (ain't working) 2.stepbystep 3.normal Nothing works, error says that some windows files are corrupt, and that registry is corrupted (somethin' like that) I connected disk to my other computer to make backup.. How can I use scanreg to reload registry settings that worked.. I remember I used that a long time ago and now I can't remember... Please help

They have probably logged on with administrator account or account with administrator privilegies..

This message shouldn't be appearing.. some process is hanging on your disks so you can't format them... Try formating from disk administrator

This file resides in C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem.. Try to copy that file from Window XP CD in that directory