Santa-Jack

I recently acquired a few Toshiba Equium 5160D PCs with the following specs: Pentium 166 64 MB RAM WD 644A Hard Drive (Some have Maxtor HDs) Toshiba Floppy & CD-ROM Integrated Intel NIC/ATI Video/Creative Labs Sound I am running a fresh install of Windows 98 SE on them but have run into a problem with the mouse. When the hard drive is being accessed, the mouse cursor moves really slow and jumps across the screen when I move it. I have not been able to figure out exactly what the problem is or how to fix it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for the help...

I know this is not explicity Windows NT or 2000 related, but maybe the hardware experts might know something about my problem. I recently acquired a few Toshiba Equium 5160D PCs with the following specs: Pentium 166 64 MB RAM WD 644A Hard Drive (Some have Maxtor HDs) Toshiba Floppy & CD-ROM Integrated Intel NIC/ATI Video/Crystal Sound I am running a fresh install of Windows 98 SE on them but have run into a problem with the mouse. When the hard drive is being accessed, the mouse cursor moves really slow and jumps across the screen when I move it. I have not been able to figure out exactly what the problem is or how to fix it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for the help...

What exactly is the deal with SP-2 for Office 2000? It was released, then it seemed to disappear, and now it's back, but doesn't appear in the Office Auto Update. Is it worth downloading and installing or should I just stay clear of it?

See http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/gho...7f?OpenDocument

I have never used Ghost 2001, but I am quite familar with Ghost 6.5 Enterprise which is capable of imaging a drive and separating the image into CD-sized pieces so that you can restore from the CD disc set without having to unrar or something first. I am pretty sure Ghost 2001 can do the same. Check out the following page for information and instructions regarding this: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/gho...7f?OpenDocument

Is there anyway to create an installation CD with Win2000, SP1, IE 5.5 SP1, DirectX 8.0a, and all of the other updates? Along the same line, is there anyway to create an Office 2000 CD with SR-1a and all the updates as well? I know these two are a stretch, but maybe somebody might happen to know...

What is your exact RAID setup? I assume you have the two Maxtor drives on one controller and using hardware RAID 0 (spanning). What is the other RAID controller being used for? Have you tried loading the DOS drivers for the controllers when booting to run ghost?

Yes, it is possible to "slipstream" NT. Basically all you have to do is copy the i386 directory to your hard drive, extract the service packs and/or hotfixes to replace the old files with the updated ones. Then burn the new i386 directory to CD. This will work with NT 4.0 and 2000. For more information, see: http://windows2000.about.com/compute/windows2000/library/weekly/aa011000a.htm To make the new NT/2000 install CD bootable see: http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13914 [This message has been edited by Santa-Jack (edited 03 April 2001).]

I have quite a bit of Ghost Enterprise 6.5 experience on servers and workstations. As you had said, Ghost is not officially compatible with RAID systems and definately does not work with software level RAID. However, Although it is not a supported feature, Ghost may be able to create and restore images to hardware level RAID systems as long as you are loading the appropriate DOS driver to support this. I have been able to Ghost drives that were in a hardware RAID system. I will see what I can find out about the Abit RAID controllers. It might be cheaper to buy a different RAID controller rather than trying to find different software. [This message has been edited by Santa-Jack (edited 03 April 2001).]