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To my knowledge, you'll need to connect the drives to get their ntfs volume ids (so one for each ntfs partition) then the mounted device key should tell which letter each partition had.

Hum, it seems even MS can't do it: http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2010/12/16/disabling-firewall-alerts-in-the-action-center.aspx.

If you still need/want help on this, could you post the diskeeper install log when it fail ? And i think one of the culprit may be the "Performance Logs and Alerts" service.

I'd take almost the same card but perhaps another make as i don't like asus graphic cards and i also wouldn't go with a radeon as i had some bad experiences with 2 of them. The "Zotac Geforce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores 1GB" might be the best choice from the tomshardware chart but indeed anything with 20fps or more in this test should be more than enough for full hd gaming.

To disable thumbs.db files.

Are you sure it was a kernel >2.6.33 and that TRIM was enabled as it isn't by default. Also only ext4 support TRIM.

Yes this is most likely because the garbage collection didn't occur since it was under linux and then 2000 (and both of them doesn't support trim). You might try wiping the drive as explained there but doing this will reduce the life of the drive (but it should bother you too much as those drives are designed sustain more than that as explained there).

I'll add that 7zip might help finding a lot of hidden malware as you can open most exe with it and see if there is some malicious exe inside.

Something like this might solve your problem. Increase the 500 value if you need a longer alarm. @echo Off for /L %%i in (0,1,500) do (call :alarm) goto end :alarm (alarm character) cls goto :EOF :end

If you only want to recover data, it might still be possible if the failed drives aren't too damaged. But recovery will most likely need a lot of time and a specialist. In every raid 5, you can only have one failed drive if you want it to continue to operate. There are many other raid level/solution to allow more than one failed drive. Among them, there is the hot spare drive, raid 6, raid 10 .....

There is OCS.

The deadline setting isn't a deadline in the sense everyone would think. When you use the deadline setting the servers and computers will try to update at their programmed update or at the deadline (more often). Also the deadline setting remove all user approvals and other settings that might avoid the updates to be installed. In all case when a deadline is set the wsus client won't ask the logged on user for a reboot, it will do it forcefully. So you shouldn't use the deadline setting if you don't want to reboot when a user is logged on.

Yes you just need to slipstream the drivers and set the sata in ahci mode or native mode and it should work.

Are you sure there was someone logged on the server when the reboot occurred. Did you set up in wsus a deadline when approving ?

Yep a double rename might be the way but you may be stuck with the temporary domain for a long time. The best way should be to test it with a few servers and workstations (cloned from the real ones) in an isolated virtual/physical environment. I'd test and validate all the steps there (and working with virtual machine would help a lot as you can create snapshot at each step). You'll need at least 2 DC and 1 workstation to make useful tests. If possible, i'd try to have more than those.

Never did a domain rename, indeed if you keep the same netbios name, it shouldn't proceed properly. Also, when you choose the dns suffix domain name be sure not to use something already registered in the internet. It might cause wrong resolution and create a lot of problem if your dns are configured to also cache/resolve external adresses. The right way is either using something that can't exist ( ex: Mydomain.internal )or buying a domain and make it point on your dns.

Connect them to the raid controller again and destroy the raid array if it was a real raid controller (not for a desktop computer or integrated on the motherboard). Another way might be using the tools from the hard drive maker to clean them. If you post the make and model, we might help find the right tool.

Just a few things: - games love multi-core cpus. - buying a good to a high end cpu for mobile computer might help increase the performance per watt. BTW that's what i did for most of my desktop/server computers to make them use less than 200W. - maybe disabling other core in bios might help improve overclocking of a the cpu. - The other way around would be use those multi core cpu and run two or more VMs (each with one cpu) and run different things in each of them this way you'll gain time.

Or if you still want to keep the same kind of syntax : (echo InstallAsService=0)>> props.file

So what you want is the "shadowing" option of remote desktop that is only available for server products. So if you're connecting in remote desktop on a desktop os , it isn't available. To use it, you need to use terminal server manager, then connect to the remote server then right click the wanted session and do "remote control".

I looked at the driver name for another OS and did a search in this file.

Did you tried this one: ATI M6 ?

As i don't see any "IF" statement in your batch, it's obvious that it will always do all the steps.

I wouldn't use pcretest there but sed from the unixtools: for /f "delims=" %a in ('dir /b *.a') do (type %a | sed.exe -n "s/<title>\(.*\)<\/title>/\1/Ip")

You didn't search a lot: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/pcre/7.0/