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    Slipstream WUDSS Components

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    WUDSS (Windows Unified Data Storage Server) is somewhat a pain to setup. You have to run certain component installer and registry keys (yepp, that is the official way) in order to get the "Unified" part of the Storage Server, which includes an iSCSI target etc.

    I have tried to simply add each component in order

    2003 R1 > R2 Components > WUDSS Component A > WUDSS Component B > WUDSS Component C

    and so on, but that doesn't do the trick.

    Anyone experience with this ?

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    Vista Bluescreen

    in Windows Vista

    Posted · Edited by utw-Mephisto

    Well, its been weeks now and I knida solved it.

    Basically I can install Vista Ultimate perfectly with SP1 slipstreamed. Another option is to install Business with less then 2GB Ram, install patches, more Ram in, install servicepack and upgrade to Ultimate with slipstreamed SP1 DVD.

    For weeks now I am trying to get Ultimate installed in a different way .. its just a no no ...

    So WHY Ultimate ends up having a bluescreen every boot ? I don't kow ... Why does SP1 fixes it ? I don't know (cannot even find a related patch inside the SP1 which mentions this behaviour).

    All I can do now is waiting for SP1 included DVDs on the marked to buy and then I can make a clean installation ...

    I can't say which patch it is specifically. But since SP1 does fix it I would try slipstreaming all of the updates that have been released so far to your install dvd. Here's a link to a website that has an update pack for vista x64 and x86. http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5698

    Let me know if this works out for you. One of the updates in that pack should fix the 2GB problem.

    If that doesn't work I would wait for SP1 final to be released since it seems to fix the problem.

    That was the first thing I have tried - slipstreaming all hotfixes for Business and Ultimate - no go .. when you check the list of hotfixes from SP1 - half of them are not even available for download ..

    Yea - looks like I have to wait - I just hope I can install SP1 over the SP1 RC1 .. if not, I will have to reinstall :realmad:

    And I don't think I would have the same problems with Home Premium as Business works just fine ..

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    Vista Bluescreen

    in Windows Vista

    Posted

    Well, its been weeks now and I knida solved it.

    Basically I can install Vista Ultimate perfectly with SP1 slipstreamed. Another option is to install Business with less then 2GB Ram, install patches, more Ram in, install servicepack and upgrade to Ultimate with slipstreamed SP1 DVD.

    For weeks now I am trying to get Ultimate installed in a different way .. its just a no no ...

    So WHY Ultimate ends up having a bluescreen every boot ? I don't kow ... Why does SP1 fixes it ? I don't know (cannot even find a related patch inside the SP1 which mentions this behaviour).

    All I can do now is waiting for SP1 included DVDs on the marked to buy and then I can make a clean installation ...

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    Vista Bluescreen

    in Windows Vista

    Posted

    Burn Memtest to an ISO/Usb/Floppy, boot to it and let it run a few passes with all your ram in and see if any of it is actually bad.

    Other than that, im at a loss to explain it since i have zero experience with Vista x64

    Considering that Vista Business is fine I don't think it the Ram per se ...

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    Vista Bluescreen

    in Windows Vista

    Posted · Edited by utw-Mephisto

    Hardware :

    Intel Quad 6600

    8GB Ram

    Vista Business x64

    MoBo: Asus Extreme Striker

    First I had the problem to install any version of Vista using all 8GB of Ram (2GB sticks).

    The googling for days shows that there is apparently a bug which makes it almost impossible to install Vista on more than 3GB Ram .. although not everybody seems to have the same problem.

    Anyway .. installation (any version) also failed with just one 2GB stick ... The only way I was able to install Vista Business (was the only license I had that time) was using 2x1GB ram sticks (same make), run windows update and patch and then reboot using the full 8GB ..

    Right .. so Vista now runs rock solid since then... Now I bought a Ultimate license to use it was Media Center as well .. Running upgrade .. finished successfully ... reboot ... bluescreen ...

    Only 2x1GB Ram sticks .. bluescreen ... rollback option (wonder why they put the option in the boot menu lol) .. reboot .. solid ...

    Well ... Question now is whether this has something to do with the MoBo .. consdeirng that all the available driver are almost a year old ...

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    Vista Business > Ultimate

    in Windows Vista

    Posted

    Hiya,

    I have a company PC installed with Vista Business x64 and now got the full version of Ultimate and wish to upgrade.

    However, upgrade is apparently only possible through the Anytime DVD .. But this would require purchasing another key as for some reason it does not accept the key from the new Ultimate copy.

    The Business one is from our MSDN account but the Ultimate is RTM .. so maybe that is the problem.

    Another problem is that for testing purposes the C-Drive was converted to a dynamic disk which gives me now problems to use imaging software to make a backup.

    To the actual question. Is there a way (not sure whether I can use the Vista backup function for this) to make a backup of the system, install Vista Ultimate and copy that stuff back ?

    I have just too much work stuff related installed which I certainly don't want to re-install and configure (not to mention 120 RDP connections plus SSH connections etc.)

    Also is there a good / save way to convert the dynamic disk back to a basic one ?

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    Going to work in Germany

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I am from Germany (Berlin) and moved 2001 to Ireland, from Ireland I went to Spain, then I worked in Gibraltar and next month I am leaving Gibraltar to work in the UK (Essex). So I MIGHT be able to tell you something :P

    Healthcare : One good thing has a bad thing. The good thing : When you work you are automatically insured as you don't have a choice whether you want to insure yourself or not .. You MUST do so by law. IF you go for a private insurance depends on your salary. The bad thing : You pay by percentage .. For example : AOK cost 12% of your salary where half of it (6%) is being paid by the employer and the other half by you. (Was like that until 2001, since then I never worked there anymore). I got a redundancy package once (100k German Marks = 50k Euro) - so now take 6% our of it :(

    Tax: I don't know about the UK, but depending on your salary, you most lkely pay 40-45% of your salary which includes Social wealthfare, Tax, Health and so on. You have also additional stuff like social bla bla (don't know the word for it in English which is used to build up the Eastern part), Pension and soooooo on..

    Language ... well the Germans are quite arrogant (I am allowed to say that since I am German :P ), most of them refusing to speak English simply because they don't speak it (English in school sucks big time) and therefore they don't want to be ashamed of speaking.

    You can send me a PM if you are interested to exchange MSN so I can try to help you any time :P

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    AppleTalk

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    I have searched but cant find any free ones. I found one that looks like its ok, but its a demo that only works for 180 minutes before you need to reboot.

    I think I found the same which did not work on OS X 10.4.9 - I got all sorts of error messages and people in the community assume that the reason is the newer AFP - I don't really know if this is true - but it doesn't change the fact that it didn't work - for whatever reason :P

    I THINK its the same as that particular version expired after 180 minutes.

    Is there any reason you aren't using TCP/IP on MacOS X?

    When connecting to our NAS using AppleTalk gives us a bit of a performance boost .. Even though the NAS does support both, TCP/IP and AppleTalk, it takes longer to copy data from and to the NAS using TCP.

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    AppleTalk

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    Hi, since Microsoft has removed the Apple Talk protocol I would need a replacement.

    I found a commercial version where the demo didn't even work with OS X 10.4.9

    Is there a free version of Apple Talk available for Windows XP ?

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    Integrating IE7 in WinXP SP2 Image?

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    looks like it worked ok, just gave a progress bar and thats it

    ECHO.

    ECHO Installing Injternet Explorer 7

    ECHO Please wait...

    start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\NetTools\ie7setup.exe

    BUt wasn't it the method which takes like 5 minutes or so to install ? Not that this is an issue .. Just saying ... and also : What if you don't have an internet connection during installation ? Afaik there is no redistributable version, or is there ?

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