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  1. strella

    Why is my 80gb now a 20gb?

    Try googling at suse support for hard drive install. -- Does Suse have qtparted? Try "start", "run" then enter qtparted If Suse has it, then google on qtparted for instructions.
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    SATA 6L300S0 300 gig problem

    Try a Knoppix Live CD, you can get them all over the place and one place is http://linuxcd.org/view_item.php?&id_version=2095 Boot it, and see if an icon for the drive shows up. ALmost certaiinly not as it is not partitioned. Then click on the system menu, where the MS "Start" button is, and...
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    Shrinking HD space

    DiskMaintenance is a little suite of progs for end users at http://www.lccdigital.com/content/view/61/61/ It includes detritus.exe, a program that lists and totals the sizes of the various temp files, caches, et cetera that are very likely useless and that MS Disk Cleanup misses. It usually...
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    Virus infected external harddrive

    Likely you backed up the virus. Likely there is nothing wrong with the drives, just the data on them. If the external HD can be connected to a Win XP or 2K you can do an online anti-virus scan. The reputable A-V makers have them, F-Secure, Sophos, Trend ... The one I like is at...
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    XP Pro and Home Together?

    Probably WAMP works fine on XP Home because Apache, MySQL and PHP and perl worked fine on Win 9x. I have WAMP running on Home now. Dunno about Eclipse and Tomcat. Why not google on WAMP, eclipse, tomcat and "XP" and see how far you get installing on Home? I think all come with binary...
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    Drive reformatting

    I don't think you missed an option. I think if the install detects it may be a reinstall it may not offer re-partitioning. The quick answer might be to delete everything on C: and re-try, or, rename the program files and win directories to xxx.SAV anything to make the install think it is an...
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    Opinions solicited on this proposed backup solution.

    Thanks, stduc, If you ever experiment with http://cdriveback.sourceforge.net let me know how long 300G takes. On an old IDE, 1.8gHz box I'm getting 180 M /min. probably double that on a modern system, so that's only a G per three min, a lot slower than Acronis (unless a lot of files are...
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    Harddrive Image Software

    Ovatvvon, There is a new os/fs backup originally aimed at XP end users, http://cdriveback.sourceforge.net, it is over engineered and does full or incremental backups for FATxx and NTFS as well as Linux drives. Disk to disk. USB drive works fine. A bootable CD uses a Linux and DAR (Disk...
  9. strella

    Opinions solicited on this proposed backup solution.

    Hi Stduc, Did you get a solution? I just put up some osfs on sourceforge that looks like it would apply. Pls. post if you are still looking. J
  10. strella

    How to resize NTFS Partition?

    Good question, TheLad Ubuntu probably uses NTFS-3G, and ntfsresize http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html says OK for 2k, 2k3 systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfsresize for more info However earlier distros, and some now, were not 2k/2k3 write compatible. And the popular...
  11. strella

    Client Need more Speed -- Upgrade?, Buy?, ... Help!!

    Would the apps, applications, have a significant db, data base, Access or MySql or whatever. Can you distinguish between app and db CPU usage in task manager? If the db is sucking down CPU at three users it may really not handle four or more but there are things to try. Does your db have...
  12. strella

    XP pro VERY SLOW

    I have XP clients who got atrocious performance and were not running defrag or cleanup. Simply running them restored performance. Apparently XP is really bad with a unmanaged disk. Disk utilization might be an issue. A marginal disk continuously trying rewrites would do it, for that there is...
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    windows xp pro not genuine

    d1885 said "I have no counterfeit disk to send in,no bill of sale,etc so I can't get the complimentary package of the key,etc to make my copy genuine." Is the mail your bogus CD in to Microsoft a good deal? Does this work . . . If so, how about trying a Craig's List Post, "Counterfeit XP...
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    Installing mysql on Win XP

    There is a *nix free HowTo MYSQL for Windows users starting off with mysql at http://www.roninsoftwaregroup.com/mysql/winhowto.htm and Schroeder is right, WinMySQLAdmin.EXE does tend to set things up such as an INI in the %WinDir%. WinMySQLAdmin is very handy, and the explicit commands for...
  15. strella

    New MySQL install and Win XP = Kaput...

    Before you scrag the disk, is this any help? http://unicast.org/archives/000182.html It says XP cannot find localhost but running the prog in windows 98 compatibilbity mode may fix things.
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