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hey guys, i know there is some way to do this, or at least part of it. heres what I need, maybe someone knows a good way to do this. i need a way to set a computer (likely with a program) to automatically shut down at a specific time, and then turn it self on at a specific time. a proper shut down in windows, or even better, a hibernate, if that can be done... this would help out a lot for a server of a client of mine. thanks!

never mind about not being able to find software on that site... there was, I just couldn't see the menu because of stupid ass netscape.

I took a look, I can't seem too find a place to buy it or even download a demo... Maybe i'm not looking hard enough, but where is it? I've been looking for days now for that program... I still can't find it. The drive does not have any mechanical problems, I dont think. Just an area in the beginning if the drive abuot 7% in has a ton of damaged sectors. But I know exactly what sectors those are, so if I can skip thm that would work fine.

I can't seem to get any drivers for a stable system while running Delta Force Land Warrior and Delta Force Task Force Dagger. I constantly get a "sysdump" error. My system: Epox EP-8KTA3 AMD Duron 800MHz (not overclocked anymore) 512 MB PC-133 Crucial/Micron SDRAM GeForce 2 MX 32MB (3D Prophet II) Sound Blaster Audigy MP3+ Windows XP Professional Latest VIA drivers installed Latest NVidia Detonator drivers installed Latest Sound Blaster drivers installed Latest DirectX drivers installed (8.1) I've tried Via 14.37, 14.43, and 14.45 hyperon drivers. I've tried NVidia 40.41 and 40.72 drivers. I've tried DirectX 8.0 and 8.1. I have not updated Windows XP, it is still using default installation. I have reset my BIOS to defaults and tried a few other BIOS related things, including processor voltage and clock at defaults, and overclocked speeds. My problem is I cannot find any drivers that work. I'm hoping that someout out there with a similar system configuration of mine and running this game has found a stable set of drivers. If you are this person, please tell me what you are using. I'd be greatly appreciated. If anyone else has any suggestions, that would be great too. Thanks in advance.

Well here's my problem: I have a 2GB drive that had WinXP Pro installed on it. Something happened and had to reformat the drive. Before I remembered I had already reformatted it and began installing the OS again. By the time I had realized what I had done it was too late. I had installed WinXP on the partition fully. I needed to recover a outlook express address book out of a users personal settings. But I think it's too late for that even with a recovery program. I doubt I can get that file back I have an other 40GB drive (mine personally) that had 2 partitions on it. A C: one for the WinXP OS and a D: one for data. The drive started acting funky and failed. Now I cannot format it, FDISK doesn't see it, partition magic, WinXP Disk Manager... nothing. The FAT, or the partition table, or MBR is damaged. There are sectors of the drive that cannot be accessed. Something bad happened to this drive. I doubt I can recover that either, becuase it probably has some sort of physical damage. I trieed Acronis Recovery Expert, the demo and it could not find any partitions on the drive. Which leads me to assume the drive is damaged beyond repair. As far as i know, there is no way that I can recover the files I need. So I think I'm screwed here in both instances... What do you guys think?

If I recall correctly none of these programs actually worked. I remember seeing all of them too. I'd just like to know, where the hell did that thread go? I know it was in this forum, or at least this site! I can't find it in a search... weird... Does anyone remember it? I found a program, that worked great... It was not acronis, or any of the ones mentioned here so far. Unfortinatly I cannot remember any part of the name. All I can remember is using the program to find out it did work. The program, worked a specific way, maybe someone knows this program; It scans for damaged or lost partitions, if any are found, you can find the data that was on those partitions, and recover it, but you have to copy it to another location, another drive. And I lost all the date created attributes to all the files. I know because nearly all my files on my server say created 11-Nov-02 because thats the date I recovered those files... Maybe this will trigger someones memory, it doesn't mine...

i had winxp installed, and then installed win98... i've done this before and it worked fine. but this time for some reason it does not give me a boot option screen... i'm not sure what happened. i know winxp is still on there and it probably work fine. i just need to fix the boot.ini file. but i dont know how to do it. can someone help me out here? winxp = c:\windows win98 = c:\win98 fat32 partition, disk 0. i can supply to the boot.ini file if needed.

never mind, i managed to get the boot menu back starting a new winxp install, then took it out. works fine now... admin: how come i cant delete my own thread? can that feature be enabled? otherwise, can you delete this thread... thx

Ahhhh! For some reason, and it didn't used to do this. My motherboard in my server will only allow a max of 2 drives! And I've got 2 IDE ports. So theoretically, (and it used to work) I should be able to have 4 IDE drives!!! But, for some reason it will only accept one per IDE port! WTF is going on here? I've tried different drives, cables, jumper settings, BIOS settings... So, what the hell is the deal? Anyone have this problem or can help me fix this.

Well, I don't see much of a point in worrying about it if it is going to cost money at this point. I got a much more important things to pay for right now other than a server mobo. It's a minor, annoyance really.

At work, we have a Win2k server, and several Win2k Clients, all users have a roaming profile. The profiles are on the server. Each profile is under 10 MB. When anyone logs into their computer, it is REALLY SLOW. Like, it takes about 10 minutes for them to get on. Which is way to slow. We do have a 10 MBPS HUB, but I know it can't be that slow. I've tried a 100 MBPS switch but that seemed to make no difference in speed. What is going on? I can't seem to find why it is going so slow. Can anyone help? Thanks!

You know... Maybe it's time to get out the old trusty shot gun... Hopfully I will figure it out. I just got a new linux server up, for our firewall, cache, and content filtering. Working awesome!!!

I did, not a lot going on. Just some file transfers, simple "talking" going on. I saw no major files or anything that would slow down the network...

I got a 40 GB Western Digital IDE ATA-100 hard drive i've had a few years now, never had any problems with it. Until I attempted to use Partition Magic 7 to convert a partition on the drive from NTFS to FAT32. Now I have done this before, with success, and on this drive. But this time something happened. When I boot up sometimes the drive will not be detected at all. It takes fiddling around with the cables and a few restarts to get it working after each complete shut down. A restart is fine... The drive, when it first turns on will often (some times it doesnt) reset its power node, you can hear the drive power down, and back on. Several times (which damages drives, doesn't it?) in a row. I usually rearrange the power cable a few millimeters or so and that fixes it. My guess is there is some sort of short in the power distribution node... But this does not seem to be the only, and most major problem. When the drive does work and get detected properly on POST, it does NOT show up in Windows Disk Managment. However, when booting off the WinXP CD, it does detect the drive, but says that setup cannot access this drive. Is the partition damaged or something? Can I fix this? The drive appears to be working and it shows properly in the POST as a 40GB drive... I recall something with the MBR, a command you could do in DOS or something... Does anyone remember this? BTW, the drive does not appear in FDISK. But it DOES appear in the windows device manager... But not in disk managment... So, something is going on, but the drive does work... Any help is always appreciated. Thanks EDIT: Something interesting... I installed Partition Magic 7 to see if it could detect the drive... and when I start it up it says "Init failed: Error 100. Partition table is bad" SO... something is messed up here. What can I do?

Well, I hope they will at least replace it, I have the data backed up, well, most of it. I dont want to loose 40GB, or, $80 rather is what it costs now.

Well I have tried nearly all of these suggestions and none have helped. I will try a few more of them when I get time again at work. I don't know what the deal is. I did run a benchmark on the wireless system, using SiSoft Sandra software. From one building to the other building's servere and vice a versa. And was pleased to see an average of 720 kbps. Pings averaged from 3-10 ms. and there was no packet loss. I will try some other time during different weather conditions and such see if it makes a difference. Anyway, off I go. I will try more stuff soon.

I have checked the connections, there appears to be no problems. I have replaced the drive, I went out and bought a new 60GB Maxtor drive last night. But, I just HATE loosing a drive, especially if it has decent storage capacity, and is still under warranty. I will be calling WD within the next day or so when I get time. It does look like a power issue, but it is NOT my power supply. I have tried this drive in 3 different computers, all with the same problem. a 300 watt, a 520 watt, and a 350 watt supply. I think it is something wrong with the actual HD. As I mentioned, the power distribution node could be damaged, a part that gives power to the rest of the HD. It is not bad cabling either, I tried over 15 different IDE cables, the old 40-pins, 80-pin conductor ribbon cables, and even the new 80-pin rounded ones. Made no differeence. I have tested it in 3 machines, I think the drive is damaged too far. I think I will have to contact WD, in hopes they can replace it at the very least. I think that concludes this thread. Thanks for all the help guys, now I know what the problem is.

I'm having a problem getting the xcopy command to work properly on a server that I am trying to backup. I created a MS-DOS batch file with the simple command "xcopy e: y:\ /d /e /c /h /r /k /o /y". This should, theoretically, copy all data from drive E: to drive Y:, regardless of date, not overwriting files newer than the one being copied, retaining attributes, etc. It is then being run by "Schedueled Tasks" every morning of every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 02:00 hours. The first few times worked successfully, but after a few times, it simply stopped working. It no longer even seems to copy files at all. I don't understand why it is not working. Maybe I am doing something wrong, or mis-interpruted one of the switches. If anyone could help me out i would be most greatful. Perhaps I should use a program designed for backing up data automatically, instead of this xcopy, which I cannot seem to get to work properly. Thx

Well a few weeks trial... and this isn't working so great. I can't find a way to do what I need. Is what I want is to have it create a backup file, of the ENTIRE drive (d:\). Then, every night, I want it to update, not add the files that were changed since the last backup. I had this backup file getting MASSIVE becuase it was just growing. I can't find out how to do this, maybe i'm just stupid. Can someone explain how to do this with MS backup... or, if I can't, suggest a program that can. Thanks...

Yes, of course. The latest. The sysdump errors according to this site are mainly caused by bad maps. But I am not using custom maps...

Damn it! I tried the fix mbr in DOS using Win98 boot CD... No work just said "No fixed disks present." On to the WD tools... This is becoming very annoying... Edit: Well the diagnostic utility found the drive... this is what it said: "UNKNOWN ERROR ERROR/STATUS CODE: 0101" So it looks like i'll be calling tech support. Hopfully they can help me out since the drive is still under warranty.

ahhh, thats what i recognize... thanks! i will try that, hopfully it will work. I may D/L the WD tools too, I formatted the disk a long time ago cause I thought i'd never need it... lol, how ironic. thanks! i'll let ya know if it works

Thank you all for the help! A lot of excellent suggestions! I will try them as soon as I get back to work. Thanks!

Well it helps that I know that now... lol Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? It is extremely annoying.

Beleive me, those were the first things I tried. I've tried different cables, power connectors, even different computers! No go... I tihnk the FAT is damaged or the MBR is damaged, or both. The cables I am currently using are rounded IDE cables, and the power connectors have no externders on them. The connectors are fine, work great in all other drives.