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It is possible that your drive is indeed failing. It is also possible to make Chkdsk destroy a HDD by constantly running it! Back when I worked for a college, my co-worker made up a lab environ where he ran CHKDSK over and over for about 10 hours on a machine, and the total good sectors started at 100% and he got it down to 36% by the time he left to go home. So if your disk is going bad (physically bad and not file-system bad) chkdsk has the capability of destroying it on you. If you feel that it is indeed failing you should mirror it (image) to a replacement drive.

If the COA (cd-key) has already been activated once, you need to call the Microsoft number that is on your activation screen because the online activation server can't reactivate a COA.

This is more of a report than a question, but you can discuss it if you like. I've spent the last few (business) days making a new image for Vista Business and integrating SP1 and testing. Our base image was Vista Business RTM volume license and power settings of disable hibernate, disable sleep, and do not require a password on resume. If you don't disable the password on resume, if your account doesn't have a password and the computer goes to sleep, when you wake it, it disables your account and the only thing you can do is reboot (with the reset switch). So I loaded on SP1, and after it was all done I let it sit overnight. I come in the next day (Friday) and found the account was locked out after "turned it on" which actually it was hibernating and I did not realise it because the power light was off. I went in and checked the Power Options and indeed all the settings I had in my RTM image had been reset to defaults, which meant I had to set them all again. So if you are experiencing this issue as well, you aren't alone.

Or have never looked into what caused said problems, and just blamed it on Vista. Or try to run it on substandard/minimum specs. Do you remember how Windows 2000 ran on minimum specs?

btw running the setup.exe won't give you a demo32 error!

In the power section of the BIOS, you may see a "Resume" option. If it is enabled, it allows you to choose from a series of numbers. One of our customers uses this because the PC doesn't always turn on after a power failure, so they used it to make sure it turned on. I don't know how it works or what the numbers mean, but I know you can just try disabling that. The name is different in various BIOSes but its usually under the ACPI type (S1 or S3).

I'd like to make a note regarding all the talk about the progress bar. I recently updated my PE image using the new servicing tools provided in the new OPK version. I am sure it made other changes, but one stood out. When you are upping or dropping an image now, instead of it updating the % and time remaining on a single line, it now draws a new line with the new % in 1% increments! This might make it easier to make the progress bar work? IDK but it sounds like a start. If you were to use, say autoit, we know it can read stuff of the screen (like how people use it to make bots for games), but is this possible: 1. Press enter to start imaging drive C 2. gImageX does not suppress the cmd prompt it is running the command from, but puts it behind the HTA (window) layer. 3. The script read line info from the cmd prompt behind GImageX. 4. The progressbar determines how to display based on info received from script. Obviously I am partly mixing up its screen reading functionality with its other features... I think, while I am on the subject, I will contact our rep to see if the PE puts that progress info into a memory location that can be read.

iirc WGA is not a distributable update, since it has an end-user agreement you must accept. It is targetted at users who already have their computer, and not for system builders to integrate. We got into a discussion with our rep when he found out we were installing Windows Updates on some computers via the website, instead of using the media they send us. Since we are not given WGA at all, we were told we are not supposed to put it on there because the end-user has to be the one to accept the agreement.

On our Vista machines, that is how we are able to disable the Receive Window Auto-Tuning feature.

Yes. Try unchecking the boxes for Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver and Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder under the properties of your network adapter and see if you see an increase in speed.

Regardless of whether a USB hub is powered or not it will not fix your problem. As someone already suggested, if anything it will make it worse (probably make no difference). I think that you have a (laptop) hardware or (corrupted) driver problem. You shouldn't get BSODs no matter how big the file you're transferring is. Can you try your HDD on someones else's PC and see how it operates then? Also can you try another (similar) USB device on your PC? If you can do this test you may be able to confirm its on the laptop 100% (which it sounds like it is - still good to have evidence when you talk to Acer). After that I'd be getting it checked under your warranty. Probably best to confirm that it does actually have USB 1.1 just in case the BSOD isn't totally related? A PCMCIA may or may not fix your problem. If you only have USB 1.1 ports then it will, but I still don't think the BSODs are good (and it may not solve them). I'm not familiar with laptops but most desktops have to have USB set to "HiSpeed" in BIOS for USB 2.0 to work - although by default I imagine it would already be set like that. Thanks JedMeister for your reply, Now i have already tried the hard disk in question(Seagate freeagent) on another laptop running windows vista premium.....it had no problem on it.. i obtained a data transfer speed of more than 28mb/sec on it.... With respect to my laptop.. it is still under extended warranty... but what exactly is the error then only those buggers will have a look at it.. can you help me regarding that... Can BIOS upgrade help.... as the laptop is almost 2 years old.... How exactly can you distinguish between USB1.1 and USB 2.0?... i mean is there any physical difference between them? Thanks again The only way you can tell is when you plug a device in, a box comes up saying that the device can perform faster... The port itself looks the same and even the entries in device manager can have the same names between 1.1 and 2.0. At least with 1.0, the device names were different.

Don't you mean WSIM (Windows System Image Manager) and not WAIK?

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I totally understand that, but when you've had to be an enterprise programmer, you are taught to use one method or the other.

Typically x64 can see more than 3.2GB of RAM so you wouldn't need to use any switch. x86 cannot "see" more than 3.2GB in most cases.

Might as well be running it on eeePC So far I am still waiting to get my hands on the 8GB EEE PC. I've only gotten the 4GBs so far... They work with XP Pro and can only be imaged with ImageX and not the GHost we use. They are cool little things for sure.

After disabling RRAS, I started getting this error MORE frequently. I even disabled it on the other server as well. I was still getting the error, so I turned RRAS back on, and while I still get the error, I am not getting it as often...

As far as transferring data, I am wondering if you are hitting that limit because you are using a 32bit OS... As far as other possible methods of gaining USB 2.0 on a notebook, I'm not really in a position to recommend any other method.

Does your F1 key work in other applications? Such as in Internet Explorer, pressing F1 makes the Internet Explorer help open. Also what make and model of notebook is it?

Indeed, its totally about how the DHCP server is set up. Most admins like to reserve the first group of IPs (say the first 10 or 20 or whatever) for servers and routers and other things. Its easier to remember that all your infrastructure IPs are between .0 and .20 than just randomly assigned all over the place. It is definately possible to set up DHCP to make a .0 available to a computer if it requests it, its just not common practice.

I'd like to point out that not all websites/spec sheets are entirely honest about USB ports. For example, they may use a USB 2.0 compatible host controller, but not actually be able to transfer at those speeds because of the rest of the hardware in the system. The shining example of this is the popular Asus EEE PC 701 (all models) where the specs say it has USB 2.0 (which it does have the apropriate host controller) but the BIOS and actual transfer speeds (not to mention the notifications in Windows) reveal it actually is only running as USB 1.1. I'm not sure why this happens but I've also seen it on other models, usually embedded platforms and notebooks.

Even with pre-SP2, you could limit the type of data coming into the computer, but it didn't actually seem to protect against anything in particular. For example, it will block everything that isn't coming in on a standard port (like 110, 25, 80, etc) and any port not being held open by a program already running on the computer. So basically, if you had a trojan on your PC, and it was using some random port to talk to the internet, Windows Firewall wouldn't do anything to stop it. Now the one with SP2 or 3 had an exclusions list, which mean you can select or deselect the programs you want to have access to the internet. You may have port control but I am not certain. The same basic rules as the pre-SP2 ICF (internet connection firewall) exist.

Also, if the user is low on hard drive space, you may be unable to empty the recycle bin completely. I did this accidently once and found out the hard way.

I found out I actually don't use the Administrator account at home. I use a user account with Administrative priveledges. At work, all my computers (workstations, etc) use the Administrator account logged into a domain, except my old server which uses a domain logon.

Well first of all, version is extremely important, so don't ignore that. OK it says you need your RAID DISK to have the following files on it: Check the digital signature on the iaAhci.cat and iaStor.cat.