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Hi there, A friend of mine has asked me to build a server for a local business. When I asked him what he wants it for he basically said a massive storage space to store files from users (about five users). At first I thought about a SAN but then considered these as being too expensive. I, therefore, think the best option is to build a system with massive storage capability. This is where I need your help.. can you give me some ideas of what components I should include? The foremost components I were thinking of were 4 x 250GB SATA hard drives in RAID mode... anything else?? Thanks. Mak

Hi Any *particular* ones you could recommend? Thanks. Mak

Hi So if I have 4 x 250GB SATA drives, I will be left with 750GB as the other will be used as a parity disk? Am I right there? Secondly, which controller would recommend for this, as to my knowledge, no on-board controller support RAID 5? Thanks. Mak

Hi I'm not very au fait with RAID so could you please explain how 4 x 250GB would not give 1TB (in RAID 0 for example)? Backups will be kept on CD anyway but this is for immediate access.. hence I am considering RAID 5.. this would leave 750GB? Do you know any motherboards that support 4 x SATA drives in RAID 5 mode or would I need a seperate controller? Either way.. can you recommend a motherboard/controller? Thanks. Mak

Hi Software RAID? I have never heard of that before.. could you elaborate a bit about it please? Thanks. Mak

Hi The thing is that it doesn't support SATA? Thanks. Mak

Hi That sounds interesting.. any site you can point me to for a review or more info? Secondly, in the UK P4P800 deluxe.. is this a good board? It has RAID on board but only ARA-133 Thanks. Mak

Hi So with RAID 5 what would that 250GB be used for? Thanks. Mak

Hi The firm is a printers and they produce a lot of Photoshop work which is then archived on to CD. It is, often, hundreds of MB (perhaps not a full CD) but nevertheless, there are hundreds of CDs they want on this archive machine to be readily available as clients often come back months later requesting re-prints. The reason I have chosen SATA is firstly the cheaper cost. Secondly, it will not really be used as a 'server' as such.. just a large mass of storage. Hence, I don't really need the solid SCSI set-up (considering the inflated cost). If I do go with 4 x SATA in RAID.. what modes and what motherboards etc would everyone suggest? Thanks. Mak

Hi I recently followed a guide on the Net to get SP1 installed on to my Windows XP. That works great. I then came across a pre-integrated SP1 build and obtained a serial for it to try it out. It worked, installed etc. However, when trying Windows Update, it says the key is not valid. Is there any way I can get around the above and have the integrated SP1 build work with Windows Update or am I going to have to do it the long way around each time by up[censored] it to SP1? Thanks. Mak

Hi No worries, got it sorted now Thanks. Mak

Hi Not really a fix is it? More like a work around! Mak

Hi Tried logging into Hotmail the other day and some other MSN sites and it states that I am using an old browser and I must update. The only thing I have done is upgrade to SP1 and when I click 'About' it states IE6 SP1. Any ideas?? Thanks. Mak

Hi That's what I am trying to to. I have the Draytek Vigor 2600We. Any suggestions? Thanks. Mak

Hi It was actually 'cos I was running Sygate Personal Firewall Pro. When I disable it, it works fine. Any ideas on how to correct this? Also, any ideas on whether you think this is a good firewall or not? It doesn't seem to have the ability to block specific ports as such. Thanks. Mak

Hi I'm not sure why but on Win XP, domains without the preceeding 'www', eg. hotmail.com don't work. I have to type them in full: www.hotmail.com. If I don't type it in a full, I get a pop-up box asking for my username/password and no matter what I type in it gives me a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error: The page cannot be displayed. Any ideas? Thanks. Mak

Hi DS3Circuit.. I tried what you said but IISHelp was already in existence. I then deleted it and followed your instructions but to no avail. Now it says: http://hotmail.com/localstart.asp You are not authorized to view this page You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you supplied. Any ideas? Thanks. Mak

Hi I tried that and when I type in 'http://hotmail.com in the browser, it changes to: http://hotmail.com/localstart.asp and I get the following message: error '8002801c' Error accessing the OLE registry. /iisHelp/common/500-100.asp, line 17 So I think it must be something to do with IIS. Any ideas? Thanks. Mak

Hi I think this happened to me after I set-up IIS. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks. Mak

Hi I just did a fresh install of XP on drive D. Then I realise that 98SE on C needed cleaning out so I did the same with 98SE. Now my boot menu has disappeared! How do I get it back? Thanks. Mak.

Hi How do I go about that? I won't have to resintall anything will I? (As I have just spent ages up[censored] it using windowsupdate). Thanks. Mak.

Hi MY IIS 5.1 (on XP) has been working fine for ages. However, a few months ago, it stopped starting automatically and each time I rebooted, I had to start it manually. Anyway, it still worked fine. Today, I tried starting it and I got the following error message: "Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred." What exactly does that mean?! I have tried restarting the system and it still says the same thing. Now, however, it has a red 'error' icon next to the 'Local Host (Stopped)' part. (I only use it on the localhost for some basic PHP development). Since, I have had a look in the Event Viewer under System messages and I can see the following error under the source of 'W3SVC': ---- The service could not bind instance 1. The data is the error code. For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. ---- Any ideas? Thanks. Mak.

Hi I am trying to slip-stream SP1 into Office XP, however, when I run setup /a as instructed, I get a message along the lines that administrative install cannot be run from there but needs to be run from an original source. Any ideas? Thanks. Mak.

Hi Thanks.. but the first two are about actual installations.. I haven't even gotten that far; and the latter link is about When You Try to Run Administrative Installation of Converter Pack (Q280561).. which I don't need to. I am just wondering why a simple admin install wont work with "setup /a" Thanks. Mak.

Hi I have a laptop and a desktop PC which are networked using a standard 100MB RJ45 cross-over cable. Suppose I want to store a copy of 'My Documents' on both machines. If I work on one machine and the files are updated, I would like the updated on the second machine when I connect them up. I have gotten this work in a simplex manner (ie. one way) using 'offline folders'. However, I want it to work both ways for either machine. How do I do that? I have looked into Briefcase but it seems confusing. Thanks. Mak.