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Hi, I read the book about disk compression and I note that the book used to tell me about the advantage of feature in windows 2000. But I heard my friend and my teacher told me that disk compression has it advantage too. Its disadvantage is reduce the quality of our hard disk and make our hard disk easy to have bad sector and no function. Does any other people have an idea about this issue?
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Depends which file system the volume uses. If it's NTFS, 'disk compression' is implemented by attempting to compress each file in 64kB (IIRC) chunks. If a chunk doesn't compress by at least 8k (again, IIRC) the uncompressed version is stored.
This technique speeds up random access as only 64k needs to be decompressed.
Whether compression is faster or slower depends on the relative speed of the processor(s) and the disk(s). If you have a slow disk and fast processor you may find that the system is faster overall.
The downsides are twofold. First, there's more to go wrong, potentially. Second, you can never do true unbuffered access. This is why Microsoft recommend that server applications don't run on compressed drives. Exchange won't mount a database if either the database or the transaction log are compressed.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Hi, I read MCSE Training Kit—Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in Chapter 2-Installing Windows 2000 Professional (Lesson 1: Getting Started), I found the comparision between NTFS and FAT/FAT32 file system as the following list:
NTFS:
- File-level and folder-level security.
- Disk compression
- Disk quotas
- File encryption
FAT or FAT32:
- Supports dual booting
- No file-level security
I note that between NTFS and FAT/FAT32 also support "Supports dual booting" option, but whey this book only list in FAT/FAT32? Please give me some idea about this issue.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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My guess is the book is talking about dual-booting 2K and 9x. To do that, your boot partition and boot.ini have to be FAT/FAT32 so that Win 9x can read it.
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Yes, I think that too but what I wonder is NTFS also support mutiple boot too, as an example my computer run win2k pro (mtfs) and winxp pro (ntfs). Why microsoft did not put dual boot in NFTS file system too?
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Hi, now I begin to learn network with 3 computers and connect as workgroup. I just want to know any suitable application that could use on one computer as remote desktop for the other computer without configure any other PCs.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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I like/use Dameware
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I want to delete some files from disk and get the message "Cannot read from source file". What can I do? Any ideas?
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It mean that your disk have bad sector locate on it. Try run norton antivirus or norton system suite to check for virus and your hard disk space.
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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My son has an Audigy Sound card installed in his computer (AMD 2.4Ghz on a Gigibytes Motherboard).
He is having problems with some drivers using the on-board sound card.
How can you ensure that the on-board sound facilities are disabled.
Did check the BIOS and sound set to Auto.
Do we:
1. Remove everthing and re-install all the sound stuff again (Cakewalk Cubase etc) and the Audigy drivers.
2. Do something else (clean reg, re-install Windows XP -Home etc)
Any suggestions, we have Norton SystemsWorks, but shows up no problems.
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sweep123 wrote:
Did check the BIOS and sound set to Auto.
Why? If you want it to be disabled, set it to Disabled. If the sound card is one the BIOS doesn't recognize, it will enable the onboard circuits and create a conflict.
"My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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I thought Auto was use on-board if no dedicated Sound CArd present.
Either way still the conflict.
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After you disable the onboard sound you still have to uninstall the drivers for it. Locate the onboard system in Device Manager and disable it, then restart the computer. In theory, this should prevent the drivers from loading - it doesn't always work. Sometime's the disabled device is redetected and reinstalled, and I have no idea why. If it works properly you can then return to Device Manager and remove it safely. You may also find that you have to reinstall the new card's drivers after disabling the onboard system to get a clean installation. To be certain of a clean setup it might be best to uninstall both, disable the the onboard system in BIOS, restart and reinstall the new card.
Depending on the age of the PC, there might also be a resource conflict between the sound card and other devices. Sound and video cards have always been the worst offenders in this, so be sure to check the Device Manager status for all devices, looking for a conflict. Newer PCs with bus mastering devices on PCI rarely suffer this sort of problem, but it's common on older units. It was also a problem for several years that some cards would only work in certain slots. You might try moving the card to a new home if none of the above works.
"My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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You should find correct drivers for ur sound and card install drivers and restart PC.
if us use XP OS u should download drivers for XP
or if u using else OS download drivers for correct OS .
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Hi everyone,
We're having a very strange networking problem with one of our servers today, and I'm totally clueless about it, I was just hoping that some of you might have an idea on what is happening.
So we have this Windows 2003 server with a single NIC and several IP addresses assigned to it. One major website is using one IP address (A), and several small sites share another IP address (B). What happened this morning (and yesterday too) is that we cannot access the HTTP server, nor the POP3 and SMTP server at the IP B, but the website as well as the mail server at IP A works just fine. What is more confusing, we can ping both IPs without a problem.
I asked some of my friends here in Slovakia, UK and US to test both IPs, and all of them could access websites at both IPs, except for one of them who had the same problem as we had, but couldn't even ping IP B. They have a different ISP, and it started to work for them after a few minutes. But we're still having the same problem.
Does anyone have any idea what can be causing this? I'm absolutely clueless. Is it something with our ISP, or with the hosting company that hosts our servers? I don't know what to search for or what to check. It is probably not a problem with IIS as nothing responded on IP B, not even remote desktop or MailEnable mail server.
I forgot to mention that a similar thing happened yesterday, but everything went back to normal after restarting the server.
Rado
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I used to have the similar problem like you when I was working at my workplace. You should turn off your server (IP. B). After turn it off, try to ping to its IP address. If it is reply it mean that some computer has changed its IP address that duplicate with the server. If it is not reply it might came from the other problem. Try to do it, if it is a conflict IP turn off the server and use ping command with -a (ex: ping -a ...) to show the host name of an IP address and try to locate it on your next work.
On the other hand if your computer still have a problem and display any message box, record it and search in google or post it in here.
The above description just a small peice of experience that I faced with my old workplace. The problem might occure by difference issue.
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Just a few ideas here...
When you can't reach the site at B, what message do you receive? Server not Found, or Page not Found? In the TCP/IP settings for the NIC is the box "Register this connection's addresses with DNS" selected? You might want to add entries to your HOSTS file for each site as a test, then have your testers try again. Also, have them try reaching the site using a URL containing the IP address instead of the normal URL: http://207.166.95.74/MySite/default.htm instead of http://www.mydomain.com/MySite/default.htm.
On Windows 2003 using Active Directory is not optional, IIRC, as it is in Win2K. Check to see that all of your sites are properly registered there, as well. I haven't a clue how to do so, since I've never played with it, but give it a look.
"My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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Hi all,
I'm hopping that someone can help me with this:
I've been trying for about 2h to delete a *@#!$%# directory on a XP Pro machine and all I get is "There was an error accessing the device". I was able to delete all its contents but can't delete it, rename it, change its attributes or anything.
I've already did a boot-time chkdsk who found no problems with the disk and am running out of options.
Does anyone know how to solve this and get rid of this directory?
TIA
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Try to run your computer safe mode and delete the direcotry whether from DOS or from windows explorer. It it imposibile, try to scan your hard disk for bad sector. I also have the problem with my external hard disk too. Some folder it could not delete because it locate on the bad sector.
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Thanks for your reply. It worked after my 4th or 5th startup chkdsk. (I haven't the faintest idea why the first ones didn't do any good).
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Hi to all, i would like to know the keycodes of the keyboard. For example, the keycodes for the numbers are between 47 and 58. What about the rest???? like Del or Supr, left, up, down and rigth arrows???? Thank u so much
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