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I've noticed the Molex to SATA power adapters (and even some power supplies) have the typical three colors: black, red, and yellow. Then I have seen four colors (not to be confused with wires) on some power supplies (never on the adapter). Just wondering if that extra color is some funky voltage or some kind of new "wake up" line ? Also leads me to wonder what about those hard drives that are only getting the three different lines?

@mgadallah many thanx for asking this question, for if not, I would not have read this reply... Which would have never lead me to finding a feature I've been searching for a long time....Index Support!!!! Yes that funny little CD standard that very few CD players indicate (My Pioneer LD player supports them), much less fewer CD players will go to (LD player won't do that ). Now I would like to know (couldn't find this on the FAQ, and yes I know I could ask there) does it also let me burn audio in the "gaps". Kinda like the middle of Tom Petty Blue Moon Fever...?

I see you were told it was the wrong forum for your post, but you bothered to tell us you found the solution to you problem..... perhaps a reply, or an update to your original post...Care to share ?

here's the [Data] portion and relevant portion of [unattended] of my "WINNT.SIF" file: [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates=yes [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes Repartition=No UnattendSwitch="yes" WaitForReboot="No"I forget what does what, but the gist is... it boots... then presents the current partition structure giving oportunity to delete, create, format, etc. I like this cause AutoPartitioning seems to use "quickformat" and I like the choice of doing long format (heard it was a good thing to do to test an unknown harddrive) and I'm always paranoid I might clobber existing important data. I believe this fulfills your request.

try echo ^|

I've noticed with some Netgear routers that If a wireless client connects via the Full AOL software (ie AOL9SE) that all the wireless clients are no longer able to connect. (I believe the wired ones still can though this may be wrong). If you are interested, I can post the exact model # I was having trouble with.

micro nOS eh? I'd open the command prompt and do format a: /u /autotest assuming a: is the floppy letter in question. See if there are any bad blocks (or perhaps track 0) unusuable. Yeah, that would eliminate the "challenge" of deleting the file, but it would also remove the question of bad media. The other thing, if you're downright curious what's in the file... FAT is a well known, with luck reasonably documented file structure. Perhaps you can use a "sector editor" to read the contents of the FAT, then with that figure out which sector to view to see the file directly. I tried doing a search for what OS that might be and discovered a wonderful world of stuff... none of which lead me to what your boot floppy might be. Alas... a longer list of bookmarks and a good hour plus on another tangent.

After dealing with a 2nd corrupt backup run using Nero BackItUp that comes with Nero7, I'm a little frustrated After experience way earlier in my optical media burning life, I learned the value of verify on. Here's what happened (twice-sortta). 1st backup, I'm into disc 9 of 13 when it get Verify Failure.... Well I think no prob, it'll just spit the disc out and let me burn disc 9 again. Nope. It continued to verify, and after a few more rounds of sectors xxxx to yyyy, I had enough and paper clip ejected the disc. Finally a total verify failure on disc 9, huray!! Well I was greeted with "Backup Failure" and a "Finished" button. Grrr.... 2nd backup (same data, same night, now early morning ), Disc 8 of 13.... drive failure (not sure if it's the media or drive at this point... really don't care) and another "Backup Failed"!!!! (wish there was a really real mad emoticon now) So my question to the experts here... Is there a DVD (data) backup software that when an error happens, it just asks for a blank disc to redo the failed disc? And if I may be ultra-greedy in my desires, also will just giveup on the 1st read/verify error instead of trying to verify the whole disc. My view is that when there is one error detected (with the critical data), there is no need to see if there are any more errors. I don't plan on relying on that disc after the 1st error!!! Please oh please, someone have a good solution (software wise) for this issue!

If you do that, I'd like to know if the Royalty OEM bios files (search the forums for that fascinating topic) from your rescue discs will play nice with the new MOBO or will you have to install with the OEM COA sticker code and call MS to activate it. (OEM sticker codes do install windows, but won't activate a standard OEM copy of windows, call to MS is required--- which is another fascinating little discussion elsewhere here).

You mean you don't use Thunderbird?Well if he uses exchange server, he probably can't use Thunderbird.Which brings my semi-on topic question to this thread, if you dump office, is there a (hopefully good), free or low-cost alternative than Outlook for conecting to exchange server email? Including public folders and the like.

I had a similar (and by similar, I mean different ) problem with Ghost when WinXP 1st came out. It would clone the disk (Win XP booting HD) just fine in the sense that all the files were there. I verified that by putting the drive as a secondary in a working system. But the original computer would not boot the clone on the new HD!!! Symantec or whever they were at the time came out with a new version of Ghost that allowed XP to be cloned and boot on the new drive!!! So your using ghost 8, I'd try either version 9 or 2003. One of those seemed to only work in windows and the other let me create DOS floppies. So try a newer verison to see if that solves your problem, since it solved mine.

To begin with, big thank you GM for getting your site up again !! Now on to my question: With reguard to windowsxp-kb905474-enu-x86.exe (WGA), On the list of current hotfixes, Under XP Pro, it's listed as SVC-CF1. Under 2000 Pro & Server, it's listed as SVC-HF1. Ok not sure what to ask except... is that really true? and if anyone can shed light on it, why? I'm guessing (assuming the above is accurate) that XP is different in that kb905474 needs to be updated differently from 2000. Any comments?

I don't think it's his lack of replies that bothers us here... At least for myself, its his domain name not going to the site we want . I was truely elated when I saw his new version up one day (away from my home PC). I think "Cool! A new version with a separate folder for dotnet2. I'll grab that a little later when I'm home.", only to become frustrated by his site not resolving to any IP address.Speaking of which, does anyone know what xpcreate.com used to resolve to? If so, has anyone tried that IP address? Also Shindo_Hikaru, thank you for posting a 2006 copy of his "current hotfix" list. I only could get Google's stuff , which had some semi-current and some old. And the Internet archive was quite old too.

Maybe for some, but no need to say sorry for the redundancy to me... I learn alot from that.

I know for the wallpaper for waiting for a logon, it is located in. [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] "Wallpaper"="Path_to_Wallpaper.BMP" Oh yeah... and the wallpaper is a BMP file! Just learned that. When you set a .jpg as a wallpaper Windows converts it to "Wallpaper1.bmp" in the Local Settings folder (well a sub folder within that). Hope the .default works for what you want. Unfortunately it probably will have the side effect of setting it for all NEW users too.

Hope noone nabs GM's domain. Yesterday it was going nowhere, now (according to netcraft.com) it reverse resolves to www.renewyourname.net If anyone knows the direct IP for the download, it would be great if it could be posted here. I knew I should have grabbed it the day I saw his site updated At least google cache still has/had the what goes where stuff.

Just to throw another wrench into this thread. I had a message: A Google search produced a few interesting pages, basically there was a bug in older Director software that if you had more than 1gig of ram, you had to hard set the page file size to about 500MB.So just consider that in all of your need more or less wizdom. (I just learned about this issue a little under 2 weeks ago.) Now for my question/thoughts. I can understand why having the page file on a different partition than the OS on the same hard drive might degrade performance. I haven't seen any reference on this thread to the paging file on a separate hard drive. Maybe a data only hard drive. I'm guessing slave on the OS hard drive chain would be OK, but perhaps a separate IDE port would be better ?

I know you mentioned AntiVIR (Free AV) and that you didn't like it for the ads. The only ad I see is when it updates (new in version 7 auto updating ). Infact I kinda like the ad screen since it lets me know that it updated while I'm away. As far as protection, I've seen it catch things that Norton did not! I've also scanned an HD with AntiVir, then Norton. Norton picked up what AntiVir didn't. (So as much as Norton can corrupt, when it's not, it works great.) Note: I did say that parenthetically though . The other thing I like about AntiVir is no registration!!! No giving them your email to get a download link; no sign in required. As far as that ad goes, if you're running a personal firewall and tell it to block (I forget the exact exe name) the ad grabber, it will whine once about how a firewall is blocking it, then there's a check box to say don't bug me anymore! So you can get rid of the only ad I've seen.

Awsome link... thus far the only other .inf tutorial that I knew of was Gosh's.

I can't recommend a hard drive to backup a hard drive. The reason you're backing up your files (I assume), is because you're worried about your HD crashing. If you're worried about your HD crashing, why would you backup data to another one? If you have a lot of data, blue ray and HD DVDs are soon (if not already) to be released. I assume the media would be kinda pricey , but there should be a RW version of it. OK, it would take two discs. That's far better than the current DVD capacity of 4.7 gig. (When did DVDs become low capacity?) If you are going the HD route, I would recommend a RAID. If your mobo doesn't support it, get a card. Make sure you install the RAID monitoring and alerting software.

I remember having similar issues with trying to "repair/modify" a program after creating an 7zip self installer (I think it was Adobe Reader 7). Since the repackaged installer deleted all it's temp files, add/remove programs could never locate the "original" .msi file. So I've been (reluctantly) just leaving them in some installation folder off the root of the system drive in unpackaged form and installing from there. Are your .exe's repackaged installs like a 7zip or iexpress? I remember having similar issues with trying to "repair/modify" a program after creating an 7zip self installer (I think it was Adobe Reader 7). Since the repackaged installer deleted all it's temp files, add/remove programs could never locate the "original" .msi file. So I've been (reluctantly) just leaving them in some installation folder off the root of the system drive in unpackaged form and installing from there. Are your .exe's repackaged installs like a 7zip or iexpress?

Here's the real discussion starter. Either svcpack 'em (I think it's the microsoft way), or directly integrate by replacing the contents of compressed files. Pro's of direct replacement, faster installs. Of course the cons are you are messing with the installs, and possibly have a bunch of errors in your logs, with inexplicable problems later. Either way of course requires testing the installer before putting it into production. Choose wisely grasshopper

RAID=Redundant Array of (Independent|Inexpensive) DrivesI'd say by defninition you can't have a raid with less than 2 drives, no matter what the level. With that said, it might be possible in the controller's BIOS setup to make one drive an "array" so that when you get more money and want to add additional hard drives, you won't need to reformat/reinstall your OS and start over. While I'm not an expert on the subject, how about telling us what controller you're using (or is it mother board based)?

I have made a Dell cd that seems to work (on two different 8xxx dimension models). I have slipstreamed and had XPCreate do it's magic to it. Two techniques I've used.... I managed to obtain the original Dell Windows CD (a feat not for mere mortals ) Using the winnt.sif's install code from that, put that in MY WINNT.SIF .... The CD Installed and didn't need activating !!!! Might try this on other Dells for the heck of it. Not sure how similar the BIOSs have to be. ---------------------- The other technique I've used.... regular OEM version of windows, plus code from sticker on compuer case put into WINNT.SIF. Windows installs. Activation is required. Internet activation fails. Phone call to MS gets it activated. ----------------------- So if you use the code on the sticker.... (per Bezalel, my experience, and other places I've read), you will have to call MS. I've used an SP1 CD (cd name is XP2_PER_ENG) with the code from it's winnt.sif in my winnt.sif file, with my slip streaming. The result... No activation. Same CD (well DVD really ) used on two different Dells, both installed fine, and did not whine about activation! (Both XP Home) I must say that the two different Dells were very similar. Not sure if it will work on other units. --------------------------- Thank you PsiMoon314 and KRYOGENIUS for stating which files were the OEM locked ones..... I've tried that "google is your friend" busines as well as keyword searches here, and could not bring it up.

Just a long shot, but does your place share a common wall with a neighbor (such as an apartment, condo, or house that has a common wall)? If you are kinda close, it could be a neighbors cordless