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Upgrading home WinXP to professional WinXP

4-Aug-02 6:50

Event Viewer doesn't keep a database of Event IDs that are associated with an error message. It's up to the application that generates errors, to regitster Event ID's and associated error messages.

Error ID 27 could mean anything. This is relative to the application itself, not the actual Event Viewer.

Usually whenever an error ID is not registred, Event Viewer will give you some more information about the error itself and usually the app. return code.

I suggest look at that string again and see what app. is generating it.

Regards,
Venet.

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rsasalm_30-Jul-02 1:51

rsasalm_

30-Jul-02 1:51

Hi all,

I want to upgrade my PC from Home WinXP to professional WinXP.
I wonder how to install WinXP professional so that I don't lose any data. Any help or pointer to help will be appreciated.
Further any pointer where I can find the difference between winXP home and winXP professional.
regards
/rsasalm

XP, svchost, and helpsvc

Marc Clifton28-Jul-02 8:27

Marc Clifton

28-Jul-02 8:27

If I leave my XP (professional version) alone for a few hours, the HELPSVC and SVCHOST processes start up and start eating megabytes of RAM (500MB+). How do I stop this? What's going on in the background?

It doesn't seem like XP is a very stable platform for long-term usage, like a server app. Should I be using W2000 server instead?

Thanks,
Marc

Re: XP, svchost, and helpsvc

Venet29-Jul-02 1:04

Re: XP, svchost, and helpsvc

29-Jul-02 1:04

Have you reviewed your Event Viewer?

Could be that some service is failing and svchost trying to start it up again over and over.

Regards,
Venet.

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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)

Marc Clifton30-Jul-02 14:15

Marc Clifton

30-Jul-02 14:15

Thank you for the suggestion. The problem appears to coincide with this message:

"The COM+ Event System detected a corrupt IEventSubscription object. The COM+ Event System has removed object ID {71EDA56F-317A-11D2-98A9-00C04F8EE1C4}-{41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. The subscriber will no longer be notified when the event occurs."

Any ideas? I'll have to root around now that you've given me a clue.

Thanks again,
Marc

Fixed... yet another query

sultan_of_6string28-Jul-02 4:01

28-Jul-02 4:01

Okay, I got over the LILO problem in my last post, but I've got another problem. The genius that is the Windows installer has made C: my system partition and D: my boot partition. I need to make C: my boot partition as well (cuz D is beyond the 1024 cylinder limit of LILO). How do I do this? Simply copying ntldr and company doesn't work.

Thanks.

Venet28-Jul-02 5:38

28-Jul-02 5:38

Ok first of all, it's a bad idea installing LILO on your MBR, as I'm sure you've found out yourself. Smile | :)

sultan_of_6string wrote:
I need to make C: my boot partition as well

You can have only one boot partition, can't have more. To make a partition bootable, use fdsik. Make a Win9x boot floppy and copy fdisk.exe in there. Start your machine from the disks and run fdisk. It will give you the option of making a partiton bootable.

The best (that is, safest) way to go, is to install LILO on secondary partition and copy the first 512 bytes of the second partiton to the first one. Add an entry to boot.ini file to point to this new file of 512 bytes.

And that's it.... Wink | ;)

Regards,
Venet.

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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)

sultan_of_6string28-Jul-02 6:06

28-Jul-02 6:06

Thanks for the response. You seem to know about this so could you help me out here?

I've read about this stuff of copying the first 512 bytes, but it doesn't seem to make sense. Won't it corrupt my NTFS partition? If you could give me a few points or link me to a decent article, it would be great.

Plus, I got the strange feeling I'm posting on the wrong website... any suggestions?

Thanks.

Venet28-Jul-02 7:45

28-Jul-02 7:45

sultan_of_6string wrote:
I've read about this stuff of copying the first 512 bytes, but it doesn't seem to make sense. Won't it corrupt my NTFS partition?

Nope, it won't. You are copying 512 bytes of secondary partition.

To do this:

boot up in linux. If you're running X-Windows open console (as root) and type

dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/tmp/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
(provided /dev/hda2 is your linux partiton, if you have separate hard disk, it might be /dev/hdb1)

This will copy the boot sector of the linux partition.

Now, copy this file onto a floppy disk

Provided that floppy disk is mounted in /mnt/floppy execute the following

cp /tmp/bootsect.lnx /mnt/floppy or

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
if floppy is not mounted.
(in here make sure /mnt/floppy directory exists)

Boot in WinXP

Copy bootsect.lnx from floppy to the C:\

Open boot.ini file.

It should look something like:
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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional"
-------------------------------

Add this line to the end of boot.ini

C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux Rocks"

Save and Close.

That's it, reboot your WinXP and there ya go. Smile | :)

Note: This assumes that you've installed lilo on your secondary partition. For how to do that, you might want to read lilo man page.

Smile | :)

Regards,
Venet.

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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)

sultan_of_6string28-Jul-02 8:39

28-Jul-02 8:39

Thanks a lot. I tried that, but whenever I try to boot to RHL, the system restarts. My config is a little wierd:

Partition 1: Drive C NTFS--System
Partition 2: Linux /boot
Partition 3: Linux root (beyond LILOs 1,024 cylinder limit)
Partition 4: Linux Swap
Partition 5: Drive E NTFS--Boot (don't ask why, I can't figure it out)

So, I installed LILO to the /boot partition and used dd, but it didn't work.

Argh! Why must NT hijack my MBR?!

Venet29-Jul-02 1:02

29-Jul-02 1:02

Ok try this command

lilo -s ./bootsect.lnx

It should do the same thing as in my previous post.

sultan_of_6string wrote:
whenever I try to boot to RHL, the system restarts

Can you get into Linux at all ?

You might want to try booting from the Linux CD, if you haven't created any bootable floppies and then execute the above command.

Let me know how you get on. Smile | :)

Regards,
Venet.

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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)

Anonymous29-Jul-02 7:04

Anonymous

29-Jul-02 7:04

Thanks a lot for the reply, but I'm gonna have to wait a bit. I tried a third-party bootloader (Bootmagic or something) and it fried my MBR. XP refused to load and RHL simply restarted my system. RHL setup said that my disk geometry is messed up. Didn't know what that meant but it didn't sound good. Well, now I'm back to Win98 Frown | :(

and my parents aren't too keen on Linux, so I'll just put XP on this machine and try out Linux again in college. A few days was enough to get me super-excited about projects like Gnome and Mono. Programmer's paradise! Smile | :)

Red Had Linux screwed XP

sultan_of_6string27-Jul-02 5:37

Re: Red Had Linux screwed XP

27-Jul-02 5:37

So, I needed to install RHL 7.1 for academic reasons. I deleted one of my extra NTFS partitions and installed RHL into it. The thing is, I installed LILO to the MBR. RHL setup didn't detect my XP boot partition. Manually adding it to lilo.conf results in an error: NTLDR not found. What have I done? How do I fix it? Thanks.

Anonymous29-Jul-02 9:13

Anonymous

29-Jul-02 9:13

well lets see.. sounds like LILO screwed the MBR Dead | X|

. put in the XP cd and go to the recovery console... do:

fixmbr
and
fixboot [drive]
(in anything lower than 2K than you would use: fdisk /mbr)
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after this, if it still does not work, try copying NTLDR from another xp computer or somewhere... to the [drive]:\ (root dir.)

good luck

Re: Red Had Linux screwed XP

Nemanja Trifunovic29-Jul-02 9:35

Nemanja Trifunovic

29-Jul-02 9:35

Anonymous wrote:
fixmbr
and
fixboot [drive]
(in anything lower than 2K than you would use: fdisk /mbr)
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Before you do that, login to Linux and configure your LILO to be placed at the beginning of your Linux partition (not MBR). Than copy LILO to a floppy disk (with dd command), restore your Win XP, copy the file from the floppy to C:\, and add another line to boot.ini. This way, you will be able to boot to either XP or Linux.

For more detailed instructions, take a look at this article .

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Re: Red Had Linux screwed XP

Jason Hihn2-Aug-02 6:55

Jason Hihn

2-Aug-02 6:55

Lol. XP does the same thing to Linux then it sees it!

ICS and SMTP problem...

Rocky Moore26-Jul-02 17:13

Rocky Moore

26-Jul-02 17:13

Okay, I have multple computers running XP connected to a server machine running Windows 2000 Adv Server with two lan cards, one for the local net and another for the broadband internet connection with Internet Connection Sharing enabled on the broadband connection.

Now, I can run a simple e-mail program that will send mail out via SMTP to the server targetted in the e-mail message "To" field. This works fine on any of the machines on the local lan and the message goes anywhere on the Internet I wish to send it. When I run this same program on the server machine (that has just had the OS freshly installed) I keep getting an error message:

ERR An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

That happens regardless of where it is sent.

When the same program is ran on any of the local net machines, it sends the message any where on the Internet without a problem.

Any clues why it would work on the local machines but the server would choke and kick back that error? The message are still being sent through that machine by the local machines over the ICS?

Rocky Moore

Rocky Moore

Re: ICS and SMTP problem...

Venet26-Jul-02 21:20