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what about running the prog in something like dosbox? (a dos emualtor) i never gotten round to using it but i hear its very good for getting 9x programs working on NT based machines

wow thats a good article thanks, it explains much better than i could lol

thanks low tech but im aware of spanning, but as you say the data 'spans' the volumes so redundancy is an issue. Basically i have 4 Raid 1 volumes 2 X 400GB 1 X 500GB and 1 X 750GB and data organization is a pain. i tried some desktop search engines but they all suck, i used to use copernic 1.7.1 i think and it was awesome but i now run XP X64 and guess what, its not supported properly. so i came up with this possibility. If anyone has any other suggestions or ideas i am willing to try them. P.S the built in windows search funtionality has some proper commands you can use with it doesnt it? does anyone know them? as a google search only brings up links to windows desktop search mainly btw i tried WDS and it doesnt fit on my taskbar (i have it on the rhs of my screen and the search box is cut of by the magnifying glass icon) so that is out of the question thanks

hmm good point lol like i say im not sure its exists, its just i thought it would be nice thanks anyway

because 1024b = 1kb 1024kb = 1mb 1024mb = 1gb if we were talking a 750TB hard disk then you would divide by 1024*1024*1024*1024 the further up we go the more times you divide by the actual value that windows interprets and the true value which is 750,000,000,000 sorry its a really difficult thing to explain but i hope you can see

yeah i know but in hard disks for some annoying reason its 1000bytes = 1kb, and 1000kb = 1mb and so on , im not sure why but if you do 750,000,000,000 / 1024x1024x1024 you will see it equals 698 sadly

thats because in hard disks 1gb is equal to 1000mb not 1024mb, do the maths and you will see that the 750gb is actually only 698gb, yes it sucks but is the way it is

have you tried right clicking the program and running it in compatability mode for windows 98?

Hi all, ive tried googling this but its so hard to find what i am looking for. i have a lot of hard drives, does anyone know if there is a piece of software that can show all of them as a singledrive? (but not through any sort of RAID) thanks

I think he'll need help booting into DOS without working cdrom. what about a 98 boot disk? and whats sysangel?.......*goes to find out*

Sorry guys but your wrong, you can copy the cd to the network somewhere and boot into dos and run \\server\share\winnt32.exe or winnt.exe and it will begin the install however you may have to tinker with local security policies in order to get a dos client to authenticate with another machine, i think the policy is something like "digitally sign communications" set to never if you need any more help il look into it later cheers

check device manager and your event logs and see if you can find out whats going on

exactly, only yesterday i went to fix someones pc, they were happily running XP until the boot sector became corrupt on wait for it..... a 1.3 athlon and 128 MB of ram! i got it working again and they were so grateful, and to be honest it wasnt half as slow as i thought it might be. amazing really. another point i make in these situations is, what is the point when ram is so cheap,processors are so powerful and hard disks are so huge nowadays, it just doesnt make sense anymore to slim down your install.

sorry i just assumed you had a server. try this: 1) give each user an external drive usb or other 2) install microsoft synctoy 3) setup an echo job from the data locations to the external drive 4) make a batch file with "pathtosynctoy.exe" -R in it 5) instruct users to run batch file by simply double clicking it whenever they wish to backup their data sorted!

how practical would it be to setup folder redirection? e.g my docs to everyones home directory?

i agree totally, i asked him once why slim it down and got flamed like mad, i only wanted an opinion on the benefits of it, yet i got a mouthful. long live msfn, thats what i say

hi, i wasnt suggesting using a usb wi fi card but that may be one way around it. i asked if other usb devices worked only because there is a part of the registry that controls devices and i find it is rather prone to corruption thanks

is it only this device that is experiencing this problem or any device you try (try a usb pen or something) have you tried the card in a different laptop? thanks

could you not add a seconds domain controller and slowly migrate things over like the fsmo roles ect, you could manually tidy up AD, DNS and DHCP and the users would probably have no clue you were making any changes at all. Get yourself a test XP pc and begin adding GPO's and locking machines down and at least test it on there first then roll it out. Surely all these bugs you are referring to are down to the configuration of the computers and not the domain. a reinstallation of your current server would solve your problems and this could be done once your new domain controller is controlling everyhting. P.S - how many servers do you have?

do you hae simple file sharing disabled?

this is probably down to the configuration of the switch, can you ping across the VLANs?

what happens with firefox on the server as well? just incase its IE that is the problem

is that upgrade even possible? surley thats like trying to go from 98 to vista in a single jump. can you do it incrementally? like 97-2003 then 2007? or would it be too much of a pain to do it that way? p.s i wonder what the legalaties would be in using a copy of 2003 thats not legal only for the purpose of being a "steppingstone" to 2007?

does it occur in safe mode as mentioned? that would be the first thing to try. if so then disable everything one by one until you find the culprit, such as antivirus, spyware protection, firewalls, maybe run a rootkit scan since you have virus protection see if that yields any results

yeah it was someones SBS 2003 server that only had 512mb of memory so im guessing that was part of the problem, i have never seen it happen before so in the back of my mind i was thinking that it was because of the poor hardware it was running on. thanks for the reply though ps do anyone know if is there a way to switch on verification?