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And I never understood why some people wouldn't (besides cost obviously). It's much faster and plenty reliable for that. I've been using RAID0 only for my system volume since 2001 (on an old Promise FastTrack100 TX4 & 4x WD 40GB striped) and never run into any problem. And if I'm unlucky enough to get a disk failure (like once every 10 years), then I'll just reinstall my OS & apps, no big deal (as long as your actual data is backed up, of course). The only method I am comfortable with is using RAID1 on a system volume, and RAID5 or RAID10 for data. Those are on work computers. I also would never use any software RAID controllers (like ICH, Promise, Adaptec) and can't really afford the 3Ware for home use. Although Intel's new LSI controllers seem to be on par.

Belated thank you. Would like to know how to fix registry associations/dependencies and bring them back to the default settings. Is there a recommended freeware or maybe a windows XP tip for that? Thanks Dependencies are not in the registry. When an EXE is created, some of the functions it does are actually done by other files on the system. These would be files that come with Windows, or from an add-on like the .NET Framework for example. If you think its a dependency problem, you can use Dependency Walker to look and see if everything is present on your system that EXE needs.

Is it? You may have different sources than myself: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~garth/RAIDpaper/Patterson88.pdf AFAIK it was designed to meet the growing speed of processors and for cost effectiveness against SLED's, and the fact that they are mainly used in Servers is only because PC's have become so cheap and (most) final users don't care that much about data integrity. RAID has been also commonly used on gaming rigs or graphical workstations to improve performance, typically in RAID0 stripes of two disks. jaclaz I think it just comes down to personal preference. Myself, for example, would never use a RAID0 on a system volume, but people do all the time. It also may deal with how you became aware of RAID. Myself, I first knew RAID as something only in servers, then learned about gaming PCs and whatnot later on. When I was with Sony, they started selling VAIO desktops with RAID on them, so people who bought those machines would first know of RAID being on desktops!

I agree about the media. When I got hired by the company I work for now, they were still using CDs and floppy disks to load computers. Having been in deployment before, I basically did a "WHAT?" and said No Way, I'm changing this up. We now use WDS as well, its a great thing, way faster too.

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There might be, but the answer won't be found in General Discussion.

I guess some of you guys are crazier than me lol!

The main differences I have seen between the two are how PEIMG was replaced with DISM. The other is that Imagex writes the XML in a different order.

I do not recommend that you allow a RAID volume to sleep, especially a software RAID. Or in other words, don't let Windows handle that function. Install the Intel Matrix application and if it has that option, set it, otherwise let it always run. Remember, RAID is designed for servers, not workstations or regular desktops. Servers are supposed to run all the time.

Question here... have you done anything to your hard drive at all? Replaced it or something else? The HP Recovery discs made by the media creator reads information from the Hard Drive to make sure it is allowed to recover there. I can't really tell you more than that.

Learn to earn might be a problem for you like it was for me when I was unemployed. At that time, I had a solid 10 years of web development under my belt, however none of it was with a company, aka something on my resume. Many job interviewers told me that it didn't matter what I knew because I didn't do it at a job. Maybe you'll luck out! OK I shall look at your site and tell you what I see. I am going to post my response FIRST and code sample afterwards. 1. You are using an OLD program. There are multiple problems with this. First, it makes it easy for you, you do not have the ability to look at straight code (this is important if you get hired at a company because they probably won't use the same app as you or its hand coded) and know exactly how it works out. Yes some coding is easier to understand than others. Starting out, I would recommend doing things from hand rather than using an app. However, if you do want to use an app, make sure you try to use CodeView and also not an app (such as the one you are using) which adds a bunch of "garbage" (imo) code: <META content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name=GENERATOR> 2. Commenting your code is a good practice to get into, especially if you want to do it in a job. A standard practice for website development is to use three different servers. The first is "test" which you test out everything, even if it isn't related to your project or just trying out ideas. The second is the dev server. It is where you test your final design and the dev server is basically a clone of the "production" server, except that it SHOULD include the commenting on the code. The production server (the website that is accessable to the outside world) should not have the comments. Not only is commenting a security concern, it is extra lines of code that the server needs to process. This may not mean anything at first but once you start getting some major/recurring traffic going it COULD become a problem. Also, I can tell that you got code from some sample on a website. If your prospective employer were to see this, they would know you didn't do it yourself. While this may not be a problem (some people actually reward resourcefulness) it may come back to bite you: <!-- --> <!-- Image note: JPG appears to be the smallest --> <!-- Comment note: Inline only works after a COLON (end of parameter) --> <!-- (may be wrong - works in TR def, but not on a CSS-style line) --> 3. Make sure you validate your code. Obviously, FrontPage is going to try its best to use standard coding practices. Even so, your page code has errors! HTML 4 Transitional is OK if you want a standard that accepts errors, shortcuts or that browsers will fix your errors for them. I use XHTML strict, because I must follow certain rules about coding the pages (do not use my website for this example, as it is not comforming however my redesign will be) and also makes me learn exactly how I should be using my code. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <!-- "http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/loose.dtd" --> Validator: http://validator.w3.org 4. Check your CSS. You have your CSS embedded in your page. You should have it set to use a separate file. This will allow you to make formatting changes on a large website without having to make code changes to every page. You only get to use 1 file. Also be aware of using CSS code that is not cross-browser compatible. For example, I used Firefox to look at your site, but your scrollbar related CSS will only work in Internet Explorer. .pageScroll { scrollbar-base-color: ; scrollbar-face-color: ; scrollbar-arrow-color: ; scrollbar-3dlight-color: ; scrollbar-highlight-color: ; scrollbar-shadow-color: ; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: ; } Validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ 5. Blinking text is the bane of Netscape's involvement in the early web browser world. PLEASE DO NOT USE IT, EVER. Then again, if it was Flash with blinking text, I'm sure people wouldn't mind... 6. Tables are for tabular data only! Do not use tables for layout purposes. Use DIVs and CSS for layout. I am not going to say that I am a web design master myself! Everyone has their opinions, so I hope mine help you. I can give you some examples of my own. My current website was developed in 2005 as a fully operable CMS. It used to have the ability to create accounts, log in and had a new script that read from a forum. Most of that functionality was removed because the server it used to be on went SOL. I have recently uploaded my old website (it was designed for IE6) because the content on it was helpful to those in the other community I was in. I had decided to NOT fix any code on it because it was way too much work. I am now currently developing a new website design that will use PHP, CSS, AJAX, (maybe) Flash, MySQL. I am also not doing image work this time, as I am having a design professional create website layout graphics. It might be a long time until I can put my new website up. Do not hurt me if I broke some of the rules I stated above in my existing website! Here it is, you can view the code if you like. Note that I am actually using some PHP functions that obviously you cannot see in the browser's source view: http://tripredacus.net/index.php Here is my site in development. It says PHP but it has no PHP in it currently. I am using this "beta.php" as my test server. My dev server is at work (it is not possible to link to it) which has my most updated code: http://tripredacus.net/hist/beta.php Let me know if you have any questions. You will also find this website to be a good place to ask questions... its kinda like MSFN but just for programming. http://forums.devshed.com/ ^_^

In XP you are going to run into a problem making settings to do things to displays, since in the registry they are attached to the actual display GUIDs. You can reference this thread, which had similar questions: http://www.msfn.org/board/unattend-dual-monitors-t140431.html

You don't necessarily need to skip creation of a user. I recommend you still add the LocalAccount, but then you can also specify AutoLogon afterwards to log into the PC as a different account than the one you created. I have already created one on the reference PC I've captured. If you set your image up in Audit mode, you won't have to worry about having 2 users after sysprep, since the Administrator account becomes hidden.

I hope you don't end up like that one guy whose PC grabbed a landbased wireless once in port (instead of the ship) and got a ginormous internet bill...

Ah, its a good diet food then! You eat one of those, maybe something else and then some water. You'll lose weight real quick. No cheating!

Look at the last post in this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/autorundll-corrupt-t130381.html

Malwarebytes is not an antivirus replacement. It is an anti-malware application. I use it strictly as a cleaner, ie only used on an infected system. I also often rename it before running. I like it a lot, and it may be good to run once in a while, but definately do not recommend you have it do an active scan. Microsoft has a free antivirus program that is less resource hungry than Panda. Also, MSE is not only free, but it is not a "limited" free version where you have to pay to get the real version. Only drawback is that MSE will NOT run if you have Windows Updates turned off. If you can live with them turned on (I have it set for download but let me choose what to install) then this should work out for you. http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

I often use notepad to make replies if I'm going to be using a bunch of quotes. There is no built in function for that if that is what you are asking, or if there is I am not aware of it.

What specifically are you doing that imagex can't handle with XP? Are we talking about using the Ghost software to make backups that you're restoring (aka, not sysprep images)? Recovery partitions!

I'll leave this open for now. I also wanted to point out that Google did make a change "recently" where their page doesn't show the links at the top or bottom right away. They fade in and honestly, its annoying and has slowed their page down.

This was brought up here: http://www.msfn.org/board/suddenly-heavy-site-traffic-attack-t143021.html I tried to explain possibilities of this behaviour.

It sounds like you have malware on the system. What do you mean IE is weird, do you get an error? What is the anti-virus you have on the computer?

It has to do with the timing the motherboard enumerates the drives to the OS. You will need to find out what the disk numbers are from the Server 2008 install. You can find this info by running the install without your AUTOUNATTEND.XML file, so that it boots and wants input. Then you can get the command prompt open (CTRL+SHIFT+F10 I believe) and run DISKPART to see how it sees the drives. Then use those values in your file.

How are you installing? From the DVD? You will probably need to make a custom install, I don't think you can make this change with just the XML itself.

You don't necessarily need to skip creation of a user. I recommend you still add the LocalAccount, but then you can also specify AutoLogon afterwards to log into the PC as a different account than the one you created.