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Hello. I am fixing a client's old Dell Optiplex PC with updated Windows 2000 SP4. Its event logs showed a bunch of "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block." like: Event Type: Error Event...
View ArticleDynamic disk to basic utility
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the Dmunroot utility that revert disks back to basic from dynamic. It is a Microsoft utility. Thanks in advance
View ArticleHard Drive Needs Replaceing
We need to replace a hard drive, and I need to know what the maximum size the system board will support. Since the old drive is toast (38.7 GB) the only way I can get system info is through <DEL>...
View ArticleVolume Capacity doesnt match partition size
hello, i have a 34.2Gb partition but the properties of the disk only show it as a 16.9gb partition. disk manager shows the correct size, so it is partitioned correctly. wherever windows keeps it's...
View ArticleGroup Policy for Defrag
I want to see if there is a way to create a group policy to run defrag on all the Windows XP pc's in a Windows 2003 network. Instead of going to each pc and setting up a new task schedule. Any help...
View ArticleHow to change dynamic disk to basic without losing data
MSCS requires basic disks. Is there a way to convert dynamic disk to basic disk without having to delete and reload data on the disks? Is there some type of utility from Microsoft or EMC which would do...
View ArticlePartition Magic 8 for Windows Server on Mirrored Volume!!!
Hi! All, I have Windows Server 2003 R2 installed on a 300 gb HDD which has been mirrored. The server has 2 partitions C Drive is 50gb and D drive is 250 gb. Now I am running out of disk space on theC...
View ArticleAutomated System Recovery
If you don't have an Automated System Recovery disk, how do you recover when the system won't boot? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782027(WS.10).aspx Automated System Recovery
View ArticleRe: Cannot Delete a File on NTFS Disk
Dare I suggest that you run the chkdsk utility on your drive? mkwk2000 wrote: > there's a corrupted excel i want to delete. but everytime > i try to delete it, an NTFS error shows up on the...
View ArticleError Deleting Folders
I am curently having a problem with deleting folders from a Windows 2000 system. When I try to delete a folder I get "Cannot delete X: There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file...
View ArticleWin2K SP4 and Error Deleting File or Folder. There has been a sharing...
Hi guys! This is an update message about our problem! Windows 2000 SP4 didn't help us! :-( I upgraded our trouble Windows 2000 Server with SP4 and the problem still here! The another Windows 2000...
View ArticleProblem Deleting File
I am trying to delete an Excel file, but receive the following error: "Cannot delete abc.xls: there has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use." If I attempt to open the...
View ArticleCannot Delete or Move certain files
When trying to delete or move certain files in our file system, (even files we just created) we often get an error that states: Cannot Move/Delete File or Folder Cannot move/delete (filename). There...
View Articlecannot delete files
I am running Windows 2000 Pro with all service packs and patches applied. I am in the administrative account with all permissions enabled. from time to time when I try to delete a file in a my computer...
View Articlelocating file 'NT5INF.CAT'
I reinstalled Windows 2000 from a factory CD. Everthing appears to have loaded OK, except for one file named NT5INF.CAT During the installation of Windows 2000, the computer is requesting that this...
View ArticleExpanding Dynamic disk partitions
Hello, I have a dynamic disk that was converted to dynamic during an upgrade from SBS 4.5 to SBS 2000. I would like to expand the C partition, as it is only 1.8GB, to available space on the disk....
View ArticleTimezone and daylight saving problems
I have 2 machines, one running Windows NT with NTFS and another one running Windows 98 with FAT32. The saved files in the NT are copied for the 98. My confirmation of that the copied file is the same,...
View ArticleSearch raw data on disk...
Hi, I have lost a text file on a server disk. I know it is somewhere on the unused space surface, but no file-based recovery utility has been able to locate the filename. Hence I need a utility which...
View ArticleResize NTFS partition
Hi, I simply need to resize an NTFS partition on a Win2K Server machine but I don't want to pay $500 for the "server" versions of some of these products. Are there any freeware/shareware products that...
View ArticleRe: Move space from D drive to my C drive & convert to NTSF?
Use AOMEI Partition Assistant to allocate free space from D drive to C drive and covert fat to NTFS. http://www.extend-partition.com/help/allocate-free-space.html...
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