| 2012/2/23-3/26 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:54312 Activity:nil | 2/23 fixboot wrote FAT boot sector to my WinXP hard drive. How can I convert
the drive back to NTFS?
\_ Does C:\WINDOWS\system32\convert.exe work?
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| 2010/8/23-9/7 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:53932 Activity:low | 9/21 are you guys really all using win7 in some way now?
\_ Yes. In my company, we have upgraded all our machines for
development, QA and other office use (HR, Finance, Receptions, etc.)
from WinXP to Win7 a few months ago. Our products now primarily
support Win7/Win2008 and secondarily support WinXP/Win2003.
\_ Any weird gotchas support-wise?
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| 2010/4/28-5/10 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:53807 Activity:nil | 4/28 Win 3.1 was more widely adopted than Win 3.0. Win XP (5.1) was more
widely adopted than Win 2k (5.0). Now it looks like Win 7 (6.1) is
going to be more widely adopted than Vista (6.0). Is this a trend on
Microsoft x.0 versions being bad?
\_ duh.
\_ "more widely adopted" ... well... what are you basing these numbers
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| 2009/8/4-13 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:53239 Activity:kinda low | 8/3 VMWare + Windows XP + Validation question. I need to test stuff with
Service Pack 3 installed. I have a valid key that I own (yeah yeah I
actually *bought* a copy, please don't flame me for supporting evil
M$). Is it possible to register the key once, and then duplicate it
for testing purposes? Will Windows or Microsoft detect copies and
disable the rest the copies?
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| 2009/7/28-8/6 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:53216 Activity:nil | 7/28 Does it make sense to defragment disks on VMWare? My 80GB disk
on VMWare isn't really using 80GB, it just uses what it needs.
Will defragment do anything to it?
\_ If you want to speed up disk operation in your VM, it's best to
defragment the disks in your VM, then defragment the disk on your
host machine where the VM files are.
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| 2009/7/16-24 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53146 Activity:nil | 7/15 Any comment on Firefox 3.5? Better or worse than 3.0? Thx.
\_ currently has an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability,
don't upgrade yet. -tom
\_ Ooh, glad that I asked. Thanks!
\_ 3.5.1 just released fixes it, supposedly. Might be worth
waiting a few days to see how it shakes out. -tom
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| 2008/11/29-12/6 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD, Computer/SW/OS/VM] UID:52129 Activity:moderate | 11/29 I'm experimenting with virtualization, and as a poor college student
I'm wondering what the best alternatives for virtualization are, and
how best to cut my teeth on messing with non-linux platforms (or I
guess interesting stuff on Linux would work too). Right now I've got
FreeBSD7 running on KVM on my home computer (on a Core 2 Quad), and am
somewhat at a loss as to how to use it. (More details: bridged
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| 2008/5/5-9 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:49885 Activity:moderate | 5/5 Any recommendations for data recovery software for NTFS partitions?
I have an NTFS partition that produces this error in linux:
"ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Couldn't find first extent of $DATA attribute
in attribute list. $MFT is corrupt. Run chkdsk"
\_ Eh... I'd try it with a real windows box before assuming the
partition is bad. NTFS itself is pretty solid. How old is the
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| 2008/4/3-9 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:49655 Activity:nil | 4/2 Anyone try vmware player and notice that network performance
becomes terrible? I mean things like webpages timing out, etc.
This is in NAT mode on a windows XP host running a windows 2K guest.
\_ I use VM Server on XP Pro running XP Pro guests in NAT mode. No
such problem.
\_ I use VM Server on XP Pro running two XP Pro guests in NAT mode. No
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