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• Windows XP waits for usb drive on almost every operation.

  - by Tomasz Kowalczyk

  Hello everyone, I have a problem with my Windows XP operating system, particularly with the USB device that is plugged in - 1TB WD My Book external drive. I haven't found any information about such behaviour when searching in Internet, so I have to ask You. The problem is: when I am using computer, especially during work (programming), when I try to access any information on a hard disk ("internal" one), Windows seems to "consult" it with the external drive. For example, when I open file selection dialog window, if I try to change directory, system activates external drive, reads something (I hear the disk's operational noise) and after some seconds of such pause it makes the operations I requested. There are many situations in which I can reproduce this behavior - opening My Computer, shutting down system, opening partition folder from My Computer - every operation involves the usage of external drive. Please understand me properly - this is not something that happens EVERY time, but at least "many" times a day. What causes such behavior and how can I "turn off" external drive when it's not needed? Thanks in advance for your answers.

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• fedora liveUSB fails, drops to debug shell

  - by evan

  Trying to install Fedora 15 via a live USB made with unetbootin. I get to the unetbootin boot menu, select Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is, I get to this screen, then it drops into a debug shell with the message sh: can't access tty: job control turned off. The last message is dmseg is dracut Warning: No root device "live:/dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is" found. Seems to be the same problem detailed here. Tried to try nk1eto's solution but there is no by-label directory in /dev/disk. There's by-id, by-path and by-uuid.

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• How can I drag-drop files-photos to blu ray burner?

  - by CCWOW

  I found it not possible to format a bluray disk and store misc files to it, why

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• Which are the most important directories to backup on a Linux server?

  - by QAH

  Hello everyone! I'm running an Ubuntu 9.10 Linux server. I'm trying to find a way to backup the machine while it is running and from what I see, this eliminates the disk clone utilities. All of the disk clone stuff I have seen for Linux requires that you reboot into a special live CD. So my question is this, what is the best solution for backing up the system while it is running? Also, I don't really care about the OS config too much, I just want to be able to keep my stored files and my programs that I have installed on it. Thanks

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• What type of malware can reside in windows restore?

  - by qwertymk

  I was reading aking1012's comment on How to create Windows Vista/Windows 7 Startup disk or Rescue disk or system restore points on a CD? . He says that: The first thing I usually do is disable system restore. Some REALLY nasty malware hides in there and is very difficult to delete. As far as rescue media, I make a full backup image. It doesn't directly address the question so it's a comment not an answer, but I thought it was worth noting What type of malware can hide there, and how is that possible as the restore info must be stored with a checksome to make sure it's not modified, right?

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• Directly paste clipboard image into gmail message

  - by Frank Meulenaar

  I would like to be able to directly paste my clipboard image into a Gmail message. I could then just do alt-print screen, go to Gmail compose and press ctrl-v to embed a screenshot, for instance. I'm not talking about embedding a image from disk into my email; that's easily done. I want to skip the step where I have to save it to disk first. Eudora/Thunderbird support this. There's a program that does this, it's at picturepaste.com, but it's paid (and and the website uses Javascript for no obvious reasons). You can see the demo movie there if it's not clear what I would like. I would like to find a free alternative, or make one myself, but I have no clue how picturepaste works.

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• Slow file operations, possible I/O error but chkdsk says OK

  - by mikolajek

  I've recently faced a strange problem. I use Directory Opus file manager that suddenly started to report an I/O error when trying to copy files onto one of my disks. The Windows Explorer did copy those files but it was extremely slow. I run chkdsk on this drive (ca. 300GB) and it took it over two days to complete! However it reported no errors found. I run Hard Disk Sentinel that says the drive is OK. But the files still read and write extremely slow! Can anyone advise me what to do? I have a spare space I am copying my files for backup now but should I get rid of this disk? Or can I try to "heal" it somehow? Many thanks for your ideas!

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• VMWare esxi 4.1 storage errors with MD3200

  - by Karl Katzke

  We're seeing some storage errors from the esxi logs relating to our MD3200. I'm sort of a VMWare noob and am not sure where to go from here because I couldn't find a lot of documentation on the VMWare website, and the forums didn't seem to have any posts about it with actual answers. Everything is working, but I'm trying to proactively troubleshoot this. sfcb-vmware_base|StoragePool Cannot get logical disk data from controller 0 sfcb-vmware_base|Volume Cannot get logical disk data from controller 0 sfcb-vmware_base|storelib-GetLDList-ProcessLibCommandCall failed; rval = 0x800E The ESXi boxes are connected directly via SAS to the controller on the MD3200. What do these errors actually mean, and what's a good path to start troubleshooting or solving them?

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• How to stop a Linux LVM volume group?

  - by thkala

  I am currently dealing with a multiple disk failure on a Linux LVM Volume Group that is backed up by a RAID-5 md device. One disk has been taken out completely and another one is showing a limited number of corrupt sectors, due to what seems to have been a misbehaving power supply. The problem is that once an I/O error hits, md takes the array down, since it does not have enough devices for it to be operational. Where md the only one involved, I could mdadm --stop the array and then recreate it to get all devices active again. Unfortunately, the array is a PV in an LVM volume group and I cannot seem to get the kernel to release it. vgchange -an does not seem to do anything, bar spew out a couple of I/O errors. I am obviously missing something, but how in the name of -insert-favorite-deity- do I get LVM to release the underlying PV without rebooting the server?

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• Which is faster for read access on EC2; local drive or EBS?

  - by Phillip Oldham

  Which is faster for read access on an EC2 instance; the "local" drive or an attached EBS volume? I have some data that needs to be persisted so have placed this on an EBS volume. I'm using OpenSolaris, so this volume has been attached as a ZFS pool. However, I have a large chunk of EC2 disk space that's going to go unused, so I'm considering re-purposing this as a ZFS cache volume but I don't want to do this if the disk access is going to be slower than that of the EBS volume as it would potentially have a detrimental effect.

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• Can connect to Samba, but access denied to homes

  - by user893730

  I can connect to the samba server using both IP address and server name, and I can see the home folder name, but can't connect to it smb.cnf [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = Venus wins support = no read only = no browsable = yes create mode = 0777 directory mode = 0777 case sensitive = no dns proxy = no interfaces = 127.0.0.1/8 eth0 bind interfaces only = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 0 security = user encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = smbpasswd obey pam restrictions = yes unix password sync = no passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . pam password change = no [homes] comment = User Directories path = /data/localdevs/%u public = no browsable = yes writable = yes the /etc/samba folder has the following files in it lmhosts smb.conf smb.conf.orig smbusers The output of "sudo pdbedit -L" is user1:500: ls -abl /data/localdevs/ drwxr-xr-x. 4 user1 user1 4096 Jul 24 17:35 user1 These are what samba logs are showing when I get the access denied to user1's home directory [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599216, 3] smbd/process.c:1489(process_smb) Transaction 24 of length 90 (0 toread) [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599350, 3] smbd/process.c:1298(switch_message) switch message SMBntcreateX (pid 2440) conn 0x7f6758780c00 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599373, 4] smbd/uid.c:257(change_to_user) change_to_user: Skipping user change - already user [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599412, 3] smbd/vfs.c:881(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name [.] [/data/localdevs/user1] [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599485, 3] smbd/vfs.c:1038(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name: . reduced to /data/localdevs/user1 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599508, 3] smbd/vfs.c:881(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name [.] [/data/localdevs/user1] [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599552, 3] smbd/vfs.c:1038(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name: . reduced to /data/localdevs/user1 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599581, 3] smbd/dosmode.c:166(unix_mode) unix_mode(.) returning 0766 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599643, 3] smbd/vfs.c:881(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name [.] [/data/localdevs/user1] [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599668, 3] smbd/vfs.c:1038(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name: . reduced to /data/localdevs/user1 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599707, 4] smbd/open.c:1990(open_file_ntcreate) calling open_file with flags=0x0 flags2=0x0 mode=0766, access_mask = 0x81, open_access_mask = 0x81 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599806, 3] smbd/open.c:467(open_file) Error opening file . (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) (local_flags=0) (flags=0) [2012/07/24 20:27:08.599838, 3] smbd/error.c:80(error_packet_set) error packet at smbd/error.c(160) cmd=162 (SMBntcreateX) NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604075, 3] smbd/process.c:1489(process_smb) Transaction 25 of length 90 (0 toread) [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604193, 3] smbd/process.c:1298(switch_message) switch message SMBntcreateX (pid 2440) conn 0x7f6758780c00 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604216, 4] smbd/uid.c:257(change_to_user) change_to_user: Skipping user change - already user [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604268, 3] smbd/vfs.c:881(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name [.] [/data/localdevs/user1] [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604336, 3] smbd/vfs.c:1038(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name: . reduced to /data/localdevs/user1 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604395, 3] smbd/vfs.c:881(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name [.] [/data/localdevs/user1] [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604419, 3] smbd/vfs.c:1038(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name: . reduced to /data/localdevs/user1 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604442, 3] smbd/dosmode.c:166(unix_mode) unix_mode(.) returning 0766 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604532, 3] smbd/vfs.c:881(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name [.] [/data/localdevs/user1] [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604554, 3] smbd/vfs.c:1038(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name: . reduced to /data/localdevs/user1 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604583, 4] smbd/open.c:1990(open_file_ntcreate) calling open_file with flags=0x0 flags2=0x0 mode=0766, access_mask = 0x81, open_access_mask = 0x81 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604679, 3] smbd/open.c:467(open_file) Error opening file . (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) (local_flags=0) (flags=0) [2012/07/24 20:27:08.604705, 3] smbd/error.c:80(error_packet_set) error packet at smbd/error.c(160) cmd=162 (SMBntcreateX) NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED [2012/07/24 20:27:08.606977, 3] smbd/process.c:1489(process_smb) Transaction 26 of length 80 (0 toread) [2012/07/24 20:27:08.607096, 3] smbd/process.c:1298(switch_message) switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 2440) conn 0x7f6758780c00 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.607119, 4] smbd/uid.c:257(change_to_user) change_to_user: Skipping user change - already user [2012/07/24 20:27:08.607139, 3] smbd/trans2.c:5100(call_trans2qfilepathinfo) call_trans2qfilepathinfo: TRANSACT2_QPATHINFO: level = 1004 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.607162, 3] smbd/vfs.c:881(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name [.] [/data/localdevs/user1] [2012/07/24 20:27:08.607184, 3] smbd/vfs.c:1038(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name: . reduced to /data/localdevs/user1 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.607208, 3] smbd/trans2.c:5226(call_trans2qfilepathinfo) call_trans2qfilepathinfo . (fnum = -1) level=1004 call=5 total_data=0 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.608306, 3] smbd/process.c:1489(process_smb) Transaction 27 of length 80 (0 toread) [2012/07/24 20:27:08.608362, 3] smbd/process.c:1298(switch_message) switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 2440) conn 0x7f6758780c00 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.608383, 4] smbd/uid.c:257(change_to_user) change_to_user: Skipping user change - already user [2012/07/24 20:27:08.608403, 3] smbd/trans2.c:5100(call_trans2qfilepathinfo) call_trans2qfilepathinfo: TRANSACT2_QPATHINFO: level = 1005 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.608439, 3] smbd/vfs.c:881(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name [.] [/data/localdevs/user1] [2012/07/24 20:27:08.608461, 3] smbd/vfs.c:1038(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name: . reduced to /data/localdevs/user1 [2012/07/24 20:27:08.608484, 3] smbd/trans2.c:5226(call_trans2qfilepathinfo) call_trans2qfilepathinfo . (fnum = -1) level=1005 call=5 total_data=0

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• What are the quality metrics for RAM?

  - by Hi-Tech KitKat Android

  I have searched RAM and i found there are given some specification for the same capacity RAM, What are the difference and performance comparison between these? Like RAM1 General Brand Transcend Memory Type 2 GB (8 x 128 MB) DDR2 DIMM Memory Standard DDR2-800/PC-6400 Compatible Device PC Pins 240-pin Burst Length 4, 8 Buffered/Unbuffered Unbuffered Memory Memory Clock 400 MHz Technology DDR2 SDRAM Memory CAS Latency 4, 5, 6 RAM 2 General Brand Transcend Memory Type 2 GB (8 x 128 MB) DDR2 DIMM Memory Standard DDR2-667/PC2-5300 Compatible Device PC Pins 240-pin Burst Length 4, 8 Buffered/Unbuffered Unbuffered Memory Memory Clock 333 MHz Technology DDR2 SDRAM Memory CAS Latency 3, 4, 5 RAM3 General Brand Kingston Memory Type 2 GB (64 x 256 MB) 800 MHz DDR2 DIMM Compatible Device PC Pins 240-pin Error Check Non-ECC Buffered/Unbuffered Unbuffered Memory Memory Clock 200 MHz Technology DDR2 SDRAM Memory CAS Latency 6 What are the affect of the following Memory Type(given as 8 x 128 MB) Memory Clock (given in MHz) CAS Latency (given as 4,5,6) my Requirement is 2 GB DDR2 Type Desktop Please help

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• Is computer's DRAM size not as important once we get a Solid State Drive?

  - by Jian Lin

  I am thinking of getting a Dell X11 netbook, and it can go up to 8GB of DRAM, together with a 256GB Solid State Drive. So in that case, it can handle quite a bit of Virtual PC running Linux, and Win XP, etc. But is the 8GB of RAM not so important any more. Won't 2GB or 4GB be quite good if a Solid State Hard drive is used? I think the most worried thing is that the memory is not enough and the less often used data is swapped to the pagefile on hard disk and it will become really slow, but with SDD drive, the problem is a lot less of a concerned? Is there a comparison as to, if DRAM speed is n, then SDD drive speed is how many n and hard disk speed is how many n just as a ball park comparison?

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• Apache won't serve images larger than ~2K

  - by dtbaker

  Hello, Just upgraded an old box to Ubuntu to 10.04.2 LTS. Apache will not display images to a browser that are over about 2K. Small images seem to display fine. Static HTML and PHP continues to works fine as well. Installed: apache2 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.4 apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.4 apache2-utils 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.4 apache2.2-bin 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.4 apache2.2-common 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.4 here is an ngrep of an image that doesn't display fine in the browser: T 192.168.0.4:32907 - 192.168.0.54:80 [AP] GET /path/path/logo.png HTTP/1.1..Host: 192.1 68.0.54..Connection: keep-alive..Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+ xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5..User-Ag ent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13..Accept-Enco ding: gzip,deflate,sdch..Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8..Accept- Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3.... T 192.168.0.54:80 - 192.168.0.4:32907 [A] HTTP/1.1 200 OK..Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:28:38 GMT..Server: Apa che/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)..Last-Modified: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:59:17 GMT ..ETag: "17b6f4-15fe-491dd63eb2f40"..Accept-Ranges: bytes..Conten t-Length: 5630..Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100..Connection: Keep -Alive..Content-Type: image/png.....PNG........IHDR...!...v...... .%.....sRGB.........bKGD..............pHYs.................tIME.. etc... This looks ok to me! I have tried firefox and chrome, both display small images fine but when a large image is requested the browser prompts to download the file. When the image file is saved to the local computer it is corrupt, it also takes a long time to save which makes me think the browser cannot see the content-length header sent from apache. Also when I look at the saved image file it includes the headers from apache, along with a bit of garbage at the top, like so: vi logo.png: ^@^UÅd^@$^]V^S^H^@E^@^Q,n!@^@@^F^@^@À¨^@6À¨^@^D^@P^Y¬rÇŹéw^P^@Ú^@^@^A^A^H ^@^GÝ^]^@pbSHTTP/1.1 200 OK^M Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:47:04 GMT^M Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)^M Last-Modified: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:59:17 GMT^M ETag: "17b6ff-157c-491dd63eb2f40"^M Accept-Ranges: bytes^M Content-Length: 5500^M Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=94^M Connection: Keep-Alive^M Content-Type: image/png^M ^M PNG^M etc... Any ideas? It's driving me nuts. There is nothing in apache error logs, and permissions are fine (because the image data is there, it's just somewhat corrupt). There's no proxy or iptables on this ubuntu box either. Thanks heaps!! Dave ps: just tried on IE from a different computer, same problem :( pps: rebooted server, no help.

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• what damage can be caused if scandisk is not run before defrag

  - by Justin Gregoire

  Hello, I would like to know what the damage to a drive can be if a scandisk is not performed before a disk defrag. I have looked up some sites that say a scandisk should be run to correct any issues that may be apparent on the system, making sure that the drive is free of errors before a disk defrag is done. I have to perform a defrag on a computer without having physical access to it (using remote connection). I know that the scandisk requires a reboot to the system (causing me to lose my connection) which would be difficult to restart physically if the system does not come back on by itself once rebooted (this has happened before). Any suggestions? Thank you.

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• Use iPod Touch as Removable Drive

  - by Chris Dwyer

  Is there a way to enable disk usage on an 2nd generation iPod Touch without jail-breaking it?

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• safeboot and wubi

  - by G S

  Hi, Having read various posts it seems clear that installing Wubi on a machine which already has safeboot installed with disk encryption is a non-starter at the moment - nor is repartitioning the disk it would seem. However while the c: partion is encrypted - it has an NTFS formatted q: partition that is not encrypted and has about 4GB free - so I was wondering if there was any way to install WUBI using that partion. Obvisouly stil need a means of booting into it without stuffing my safeboot booting mechanism. I'm thinking that this should be possible as the safeboot booting mechanism will get me to the boot choice options and thereafter all references in the boot.ini entry for the wubi installtion should be to files on the non-encrypted NTFS partion and so it should be OK and not attempt any changes to my envrypted c: partion (other than adding the extra entry to boot.ini) ? any thoughts? ta

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• CHKDSK always runs on Hyper-V image

  - by Dave

  I am having a problem with one of my VM's. Every time it boots, CHKDSK runs and finds no errors, but it goes into an endless loop (CHKDSK/Reboot/CHKDSK). The only way I can get Windows to boot is by cancelling the chkdsk. Is there any way I can tell windows to not do it? What do you guys suggest? Can't redo server. I guess it's also fair to say I get the following errors in Event Viewer "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume \Device\HarddiskVolume2" "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume C:\" I only have 1 VHD attached, not sure what Volume 2 is. Thanks!

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• cannot access new drive through nfs

  - by l.thee.a

  I am running nfs-kernel-server to access my files on my linux machine(ubuntu - /share). The disk I have been using is full. So I have added a new disk and mounted it to /share/data. My other pc mounts the /share folder to /mnt/nfs; but cannot see the contents of /mnt/nfs/data. I have tried adding /share/data to /etc/exports, but it did not help. What do I do? PS: I am looking for another solution than explicitly mounting /share/data on the second drive.

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• P2V using Acronis True Image Home 10 and Windows 7

  - by Anthony

  I have a full system image using Acronis True Image Home 10 and want to run it as a virtual machine on Windows 7 Professional. I have created a virtual machine but Windows Virtual PC doesn't allow access to a USB external hard disk when booting from the Acronis Recovery CD. I've copied the backup onto the host machine and I can access it via the network using the Acronis boot CD but I'm wondering if there is an easier way? Does any other free Virtual Machine software support USB devices during boot (i.e. I can restore a backup image from the USB hard disk directly)

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• What are the mandatory Linux kernel modules to run inside of ESXi

  - by Marcin

  I'm used to rolling my own kernels for servers, as it nicely minimizes the number of exploits (and the resulting patches) to take care of. In a traditional (bare metal) world, the whole process is about knowing what you have (hardware), and what you need (Ethernet, IPv4, iptables, etc.) In a virtualized environment, some things stay the same (still need Ethernet and IPv4), some things go away (power management), and then there are some new needs (vxnet3, or vmware-tools, even though that's compiled outside of the kernel). So my question mostly concerns itself with the last two categories: what can I remove completely, and what new stuff do I want? For example, what IO scheduler do I want, if all my disk operations are going through another filesystem/scheduler/cache to get to the virtual disk? Do I need hyper-threading enabled, or is the VM going to show them to me anyway as a CPU anyway? Do I need Large Receive Offload turned on, or is that something that the hypervisor's network drivers are going to do for me?

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• Unable to Boot from USB External Hard Drive

  - by Josh Stodola

  I recently upgraded my main development machine to Windows 7. This involved wiping out my primary boot drive (Windows XP 64-bit) and starting clean. Before I wiped it, I did a direct disk-to-disk copy to a big external hard drive I have. While I have been able to migrate most of the necessary files without any problems, I was wanting to boot from it today to check a few settings. I plugged in the hard drive, rebooted, changed the BIOS to boot from USB-HDD first. But, no mattter what I do, it always boots from my primary drive to Windows 7. I do not see any kind of error message or anything. How can I boot to Windows XP 64-bit on this external hard drive?

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• Is there a command line (or autohotkey) way of dismounting a USB drive?

  - by justintime

  I find dismounting a USB drive takes far too many mouse clicks for my liking. Is there are command line way of doing it (XP and Vista)? Addition I have an eye condition that makes hand mouse coordination difficult so any suggestion that there aren't too many clicks will be downvoted as not answering my question. However I use AutoHotkey a lot and one use case would be to call it from an AHK script. So if there is a way to code it in AHK that will do. Added this to the tags. Further question - is it safe to remove a disk when the computer is a. on Standby or b. Hibernated. I recall that W2000 got uspet if you pulled a disk from a hibernated machine. Or is it better to explicitly dismount or sync before you hibernate or standby - prabably in a script.

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• Minimum space required for Server 2008 R1 install?

  - by Chris J

  I'm trying to plan disk space for a virtual environment, and wanting to keep virtual disks as small as possible - mostly as apart from the base OS, the software going onto the VM is less than a few MB, so want to avoid physical disk space going to waste; plus it'll give me an idea of how many VMs I could physically fit in {x}GB of physical drive. For Server 2003, I've had installs on 2GB and 5GB sized virtual disks. However for Server 2008, Microsoft recommends a minimum of 10GB (I assume this is both for x32 and x64). For the record, I will be installing the x32 version. Now I know I could just go ahead and try a small install, but wanted to solicit any practical knowledge as well :-) What's the smallest install of Server 2008 possible? (excluding server core installations).

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• How should I convert a physical drive to a VHD for use with VirtualPC?

  - by RBerteig

  I have the hard disks from a PC that was happily running Windows Me until is it suffered an unknown hardware failure. The drives are intact, and can be mounted and read on other PCs. We have data backups, but there is licensed software installed that may not be possible to migrate to newer versions running on a more modern platform making the idea of just booting a virtual image attractive. Is it possible to make VHDs from the drives such that I can boot them in VirtualPC? If not VirtualPC, would it be possible in any other virtualization tool? Edit: Some more details.... The system was running Windows Me, but upgraded from Windows 95 (or possibly 98). It can't have been more than a Pentium II, but I will have to look at the motherboard to confirm that. There were no "exotic" devices installed, and nothing beyond the usual legacy stuff that would need to survive into a virtual machine. The licensed software did not have a dongle, so I won't need to worry about virtualizing a physical dongle of some kind. Licenses were probably died to the disk serial number. There were two HDs, both IDE. The boot disk is about 6GB, and the spare data disk is 12GB, but nearly empty. I have a small bias in favor of VirtualPC just because its free and I've used it successfully in the past. But this is a good excuse to revisit the state of the art. I do know from direct experience that it is possible to install and boot DOS 5.0 and Win95 in VirtualPC, but the VM extensions weren't available so the experience isn't as seamless as I would have liked. A very old DirectX game that failed miserably under XP SP2 runs really nicely on that VM, and actually plays better in a lot of ways than it did on period hardware, so that gives me hope that this is possible. Edit 2: Well, I'm closer than I was when I asked... so thanks to all for helpful suggestions and hints to what I should be trying. I used WinImage to copy the disks, and VirtualPC 2007 to attempt to boot. So far, I have it booting in safe mode, but hanging with a black screen otherwise. I strongly suspect that the copy of Artisoft Lantastic 8.0 (anyone else remember them?) that is still installed for networking with even older PCs that mostly don't exist any more is the culprit there. In my infinite free time, I will try to resolve the differences between a Safe Mode boot and a normal boot, and feel that it is likely to yield to pressure. I'd accept more than one answer if I could... this isn't as black and white a question as the one accepted answer convention assumes.

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