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You most likely "just" encountering a change of mass storage drive when booting on GX620. The fastest way to solve is look in GX620 bios for a setting called "sata controller mode" or something and set it to "Ide/ata/compatibility mode" or use "driver injection" from a working computer to add the ahci drive.

The big difference in ext3 is the journal so as long as your media player set doesn't use raw tools to read the drive, it should be ok BUT you should be extra careful with ext2 partitions they must be always umounted cleanly if you don't want to loose data. Also when formatting a ext2 partition with mke2fs you can set the size of the inodes with -I switch. Some embedded devices need a specific size of inodes to be able to boot. In my own experience, using ext3 isn't a good idea because it is a lot slower than ext2 and the journalizing doesn't give the safety it claims. I always ended with more problems with ext3.

Did you checked the inf to see if there was a directory tree ? Sometimes you need to create the tree that is made during the setup or modify the inf file.

From what i read, it seems only vista sp1 is required to work correctly with 4k sectors so if you're a WinPe 2 based from vista SP1 it should work. 2TB+ partitions need GPT support and it is supported since windows 2003 SP1 so it should also work with WinPe 2 SP1.

I had the same kind of problem with intel board and the only way to flash it was to boot from CD in dos mode. If i did the same thing with usb drive or key it never worked also i needed to remove all card and peripherals from the MB. Then the flash process did not work as they said it was frozen at its ends trying to reboot. I had to power it off after more than one hour. Then i needed to remove the bios battery to be able to boot again to see the bios wasn't updated. I did a bios reset and was able to flash it from cd and this time it worked. I'll never buy an intel MB again, they definitely don't know how to make them and they should let a MB manufacturer( like asus/gigabyte/msi ....) make them.

I was pointing out how to find the root cause. The way to find it is the same.

This post might help you.

In the device manager, then change the view to view devices by connection and expand until you find your com ports..

I don't know the pdfcreate printer but on most PS printers, you can set printers options to fix this and download TrueType fonts as softfonts. Read solution 9 from this adobde KB article.

There is explorer2fs and ext2 IFS ( it seems ext2 ifs recent versions don't support win9x anymore but older did ) to do this but as already said: booting from a live linux CD would be more efficient and you might even like it.

VLC can do it with avi, mkv, wmv, mp4 but it might not work with all video containers. Anyway that's why you should always buy items with warranty at real shops.

I'd just replace the 6 Lcase with 6 Ucase.

@ Tripedacus: Maybe you didn't add the global catalog (often forgotten or perhaps the dns server) role to the 2008R2 (when performing dcpromo) before trying to change the operation master.

Windows 2003 Service pack 3 doesn't exist to my knowledge. Here is how i would do it: - First make backup of your domain controler. If you have more than one DC (and that is heavily recommeded), you may ignore this step. - Install the windows 2008R2. - upgrade the schema. You can take extra steps there if you are in a production environment that can't be disturbed in case the upgrade fail: create a virtual machine from 2003 DC, isolate it from production network, install the 2008R2 on another VM, make the schema upgrade. If all still works after apply to the same steps to the production environment. - use dc promo do change the 2008R2 to a DC. - Migrate the other roles such as dns, dhcp, wins, etc... and make the change on the clients computers/servers. - Change the operation master role in AD to the new 2008R2 server. - Check if all is working correctly after shutdown down the 2003 DC. If not you're probably forgetting something: there is still some role to migrate to 2008. - Power on again the 2003 DC, demote it and remove it from AD if needed.

Without the make and model of the actual drive, i can't say that it will be a lot better for sure but it might help a little. You might also be interested in momentus xt hydrid hard drive.

Something like this should work @echo off for /f "delims=; usebackq" %%i in (`dir /b /ad %1`) do (move "%%i"\*.* .)

That's the best option. You shouldn't remove anything.

You'll need to backup all the data on the drives as with some raid and configuration controller keeping the existing data isn't an option. Also in my experience, it might be better to buy drive that support raid (if yours doesn't) with a real raid controller. As you seem to like Samsung drives, the raid one's from Samsung is this one.

The system process is used by many others: for example when you access from the network to a file using a share, the handle on the file is owned by the system process but in fact it is the server service which allow it if you stop the server service the handle would disappear on this file. So you should really try stopping superfecth, indexing etc ... service on by one to find the right one.

Did you used chkdsk /l:size to set the wanted size as described there ?

You could try solving your admin rights issue by moving your working script in computer configuration of the gpo so it will run with system rights each time the computer start.

No you don't need to reformat just because swapping motherboard but depending on the OS you're using you might need to do things to make it boot if it was the boot drive.

Does trying with the classic start menu enabled ( and so from the my documents icon on desktop) give the same result ? If yes it might a policy, try gpedit.msc, go to user configuration then administrative templates then desktop and check if the "Remove Properties from My Documents context menu" is enabled or not. If it was enabled, you'll need to disable it and reboot for change to take effect. If it still doesn't work, i would try with another user profile and see if the problem is there or not.

Most likely, you aren't using the driver for the esata port: i had this problem with xp some driver when installed had "safely remove drive for all drive internal or not" and other didn't had it even for the external one. And if you're already using the right driver then you might try to stop services to identify which one is locking your drive. See there for examples.

I didn't reinstall my xp for a motherboard swap since about 2005. Most of the time didn't need to do anything except when i swapped and enabled ahci. All i need was use driver injection Gui to replace the old mass storage driver. Also as for the graphics card , i always buy an nvidia, i don't even need to reinstall those drivers. The only drivers i need to reinstall are sound and network. Last time i reinstalled XP since 2005 was because i had controlset going from 1 to 25 in the registry due to a strange behavior of smart array P400 controller. I didn't want to see at how many controlset XP wouldn't boot anymore.