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I usualy use f-prot for dos and run it from cmd line. I know some other programs have dos versions, but I don't know if you can run it from the recovery console. You can download f-prot http://www.f-prot.com/download/download_fpdos.html

Glad I could help. Hope getting a larger drvie soon myself.

You could try with a program like partition magic ... You can copy a partition and then convert it to ntfs.

Check if the print spooler service is started.

You can mount a drive into a ntfs folder. It can also be a removable drive. I mount my digital camera and my card reader like that (d:\media\CF) so they don't show up in my computer. Righ click on my computer, select manage, go to Disk Management, right click on a drive, select change drive letter and path..., select add ... Haven't tried to mount a disk as program files. I reconfigured my e: drive as program files, but it still puts some files on c:. It's a good idea. Maybe I'll try it on my next setup My sugestion would be: C: 20GB NTFS (must be ntfs if you wan't to mount) D: 40GB FAT32 or NTFS mounted as program files E: 55GB FAT32 or NTFS for downloads movies ... F: 5BGB (or what's left) FAT32 or NTFS mounted as C:\temp for tem swap... I think you can leave the drive letters or you could remove the drive letters d: and f: (don't know what will happen if you have a swap file on f: and try to remove it) and change e: into d: (You can have a drive mounted more than once I think) This is just a quick sugestion, but you could try something in that direction. Post back on what you did and how it went.

Quote: Quote: I have no problem filling my 40GB maxtor with mp3's. The problem is that I don't have time to organize them and burn them on to CD's. About filling so much songs 24,570,108 songs 1,919,818 CDs (CDDB.com). No idea how much songs my collection has, but some of my friends go well over 60GB. Do you seriously know and like all the songs though? If so, then I guess you have shown me that there is a market for this product. If not, would it really be worth it to have skip 10-15 songs that you don't know or don't like to get to one you do? I could say I could name the artist and the song at least 20GB of them. Don't try me though. I must say I like at least half of my mp3's and that's why I have them.

Is it not present for just one application or for all?

I have no problem filling my 40GB maxtor with mp3's. The problem is that I don't have time to organize them and burn them on to CD's. About filling so much songs 24,570,108 songs 1,919,818 CDs (CDDB.com). No idea how much songs my collection has, but some of my friends go well over 60GB.

Especially on larger HDD's >8GB windows 2000,XP puts some free space. I don't know if the os needs it, but I doubt it. I use PM and resize the partition. It doesn't matter if FAT or NTFS. Even on my 540Mb drive it leaves some space when formating from windows. It could be a bug or just a precaution. Who knows

I just installed windows 2003 server on my machine to find out that some hardware is just not working ;( Some question marks in my device manager. Sound blaster AWE64 and my initio SCSI card. I just can't believe it. Anyone found some drivers that work? I guess my HW is kinda old too.

did you try to move the swap to primary master?

I am running suse 8.0 on the same machine. And guess what, everything works.

2 things RAM or VIDEO. I had a bad rams stick, but I've seen bad ram sockets. If it happens again try to bend the ram a little to one or the other side, and hold bent as still as possible when starting up the computer. Try to replace the graphic card, or use a pci one. You can try the bending trick but it is less likely here cos agp is only 66MHz.

I have a similar problem with my Philips PCCD48. Sometimes when I inserted a cd it didn't even spin up the cd. Like there is none inserted. I took it apart and cleaned it manualy. It helped for a while, but then it started again. I cleaned it again, but I don't think it was dirty. It's more like when I take it apart I move something and it works again. For now it's working (a few months) so far so good. But since it was the cheapest so I can be happy it lasted so long. Try to take it apart and if you can plug in the power and insert a CD to see if it even spins up the CD.

Mortal kombat 1-4 since 1992

For now everything on this machine is scsi, but I don't know how long will it stay that way. ;(

Are you booting from a flopy or cdrom into dos?

Go to Gontrol Panel / Printers and Faxes. Righ click on your printer and choose properties. In Advanced tab click on Printing Defaults... and then on Advanced... Set what you have to and click OK (And hope it'll work).

What file system ntfs or fat 32. BTW I think you can't save the backup to the same drive you're backing up.

it should be 1.5xram 1.5x512=768 but I have set mine to equal size as the ram. Look in the task manager under performace to see how much ram you're using, leave the task manager open and play a game or run something that consumes a lot of memory and see how much ram you have left.

DVDx or MovieJack

A while ago I ran a voodoo1 on windowsXP. I managed to play some quake3, it had a lot of graphical errors in the menus but the game itself was ok. It depends what you will play with this computer. I replaced my voodoo1 with a voodoo3 and short after that with a geforceMX 200. If you're gonig to try it http://www.ntcompatible.com/download.php?id=1 You can find some drivers here. Good Luck, you'll need it.

Max temp for 2400+ is 85°C. So I think it should be enough cooling.

I don't know if this helps. You could try sygate http://soho.sygate.com/products/access_ov.htm I don't know if it helps, but you can try the demo.

Well Automatic updates and background intelligente transfer services does send something to mico$oft. There was an article posted on ntcompatible a while ago, that when up[censored] your xp's it sends iformation about software that is installed on your computer (Even those that is non micro$oft). I don't know if M$ can use such information but beware.