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If you have some more money, you might find a used raid controler (3ware, areca, adaptec) at a low price (i saw often 3ware ones for 50$ on ebay and of course they are only sata I). This way you won't get any problem replacing a faulty drive (with a fault tolerant array) or expanding the raid array.

You might just need to stop trying to repair and just try an offline sysprep or driverinjection as suggested by jaclaz and myself and if it stil doesn't boot without crashing try safe mode. If safe mode works then a third party driver or service is the root cause of the problem and here you'll need to disable the suspicious ones one by one. If safe mode doesn't work then you'll need to disable autoreboot after crash debug and post the crash debug information (it should most likely be a crash debug with 7B or 7F which are usualy storage drivers related).

You don't need /PAE as it should only be used when memory > 4GB for edition that support it. /3GB might be needed if you're using application that need more than 2GB of memory.

You should find your answer there: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=5934.0.

If your install CD was made modded, you should read this: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/122333-not-enough-virtual-memory-or-paging-file-quota-is-available-to-complet/. If not, try to boot in safe mode and set page file to a higher value than the current one.

You could use the very good Driverinjection to easily change the storage controller driver and boot the drive on the new motherboard. And repair install should be done with the level of SP (and sometimes patchs).

It might be because of a virus (lovsan for example) attacking your computer if your XP install CD isn't slipstreamed with all lastest patchs. I'd cut any network connection (wired or wireless) before repairing.

It might be alcohol or daemon tools or any CD emulator.

I saw a few month ago a good review on small nas there: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/n4200-ts459-pro-intel-atom,2610.html. It might help you to make your choice.

Video drivers aren't the real problem, you might get problems with audio driver and usb drivers most likely.

I saw 2 partitions on the same server having the same strange problem: - explorer and dir report there is low or no space available - the total data amount when selected use less than the half of the total space (and yes i have tried some of suggestions: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2008/07/03/ntfs-misreports-free-space.aspx and i have the rights on all files even those in "System Volume Information" ). - chkdsk report the space "correctly" it does show about the missing space as free in its report at the end. - lads i used to create a report on the alternate datastream on this report also the space "correctly" and the total size of the alternate datastream file isn't even about the tenth of the missing space. So if anyone has another idea except the ones needing to umount the partitions (i didn't do the chkdsk /F because of this). - I also tried to fill the available space with 7zip but it was only able to fill the space seen by windows explorer - also windows explorer doesn't report the total space correctly it different from the size seen in disk manager.

Most likely, some services must have handle on it so it won't be powered down.

1) You need perfmon to monitor. 2) The way applications swap to pagefile can't be defined easily so you need to use some tweaks depending on your running applications. But a fast ssd (or ramdrive) could handle the pagefile and increase a lot the overall performance of the applications using the pagefile. 3) There are more things you need to consider: for example a recent hard drive can sustain about 60/100MB/s in read or write (sequential) area (but the sytem doesn't know its limitation) but won't handle a lot of I/O (usually no more than 1000 read /s) and the system still doesn't know those limitations. The only way to be sure is stress testing the computer and monitor it (there are benchmarks that'll do that) then you'll know about the best perf of your hardware in each area and you'll be able decide on what upgrading. As a side note, you're using a core2duo and so only applications using both cores could take 100% cpu so be sure to read the usage of each core separately and if one is often at 100% (at this time total cpu would be at min 50%), then your bottleneck is the cpu. But before upgrading, i would try to tweak the system to increase its performances.

Yes it will if you change the subnet mask to 255.255.240.0 but you'll also see the network 172.17.0.0-172.17.5.255 so it might create problems if, for example, it is routed to another site.

I don't think the clsid are read with the system account when you open a session but i might be wrong.

Are you looking for something like this: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/cranberry-diamonddiscs-offer-1000-year-dvd-shelf-life/

A way to prevent them from registering at each boot and or prevent programs to read those clsid reg entries, would be to modify registry rights (deny access in this case).

It might be an explorer extension using .net that is leaking as -X- said before.

As recent core 2 duo socket 775 aren't supported without a bios update, you'll still need to find to the make and model of your motherboard if you want to buy a supported cpu. And unless you open the box and read it what is written it would be very dangerous to try a bios update without know the exact make and model.

I don't think all XP x86 drivers will work on W2K.

It would be a lot easier if you opened the computer and read the make and model on the motherboard. You could try cpu-z but i am not sure if it will do better.

Full explanation there: http://expertester.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/ahci-vs-ide-%E2%80%93-benchmark-advantage/

Most of the time when copy and paste doesn't on remote and only there, it's coming from crashed services (i don't remember which one but i do remember getting this wierd behaviour when conficker crashed the server service and all of the others services running in the same svchost.exe process).

No if you need this much new addresses including your existing ones, you'll have to use 172.17.0.0 /19 network which will allow you to use ip between 172.17.0.0 and 172.17.31.255 and replace the subnet mask 255.255.224.0. The only way to do it properly, if you're using the 172.17.0.0 ->172.17.5.255 for another physical network, would be to make vlans but as your actual subnet isn't a classic one you might get errors. Check a good subnet calculator there: http://jodies.de/ipcalc?host=172.17.6.0&mask1=22&mask2=.

Most X86 app aren't able to address more than 4GB (2^32) of memory (like the system) and by default the system won't allow any process to use more than 2GB of memory. Only X64 applications running on an X64 os can use correctly memory over 4GB. The few exceptions are servers applications like MS SQL server....