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The primary purpose of RAID is to protect your data in the event of a hard disk failure; even if possible, it would be pointless to set it up on a single drive. Save your pennies and buy extra drives, then do it right.
As to the system setup, I recall reading tales of woe from people who had trouble booting Windows from RAID sets. I'd install the OS on a single drive, and everything else on a RAID set, then schedule backups of the OS drive to the RAID set nightly.
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Roger Wright wrote:
As to the system setup, I recall reading tales of woe from people who had trouble booting Windows from RAID sets.
Hmm, I'm not a fan of un-neccesary work. So I'll boot off of a single drive.
Thanks for the tips!
Matt Newman
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I still have to test this piece-o-junk antiquated operating system. But here's my problem. I can reproduce a scenario that brings NT to its knees. When you reboot, the Windows Login process quits unexpectedly and causes a bluescreen. IF you reboot, you get a blue screen. I cannot figure out a way to get into this machine to see what's going on.
I have tried booting in VGA mode, but it still causes the same problem.
Any ideas? My next step will be to try and use a recovery disk, we'll see how that goes. It might not get me the information I need - I am not so much interested in *fixing* this machine, as I am interested in what is causing it to crash in the first place.
Thanks.
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Navin wrote:
I still have to test this piece-o-junk antiquated operating system
Funny, as with all M$ products it was advertised as the OS to end all OS's when it was released, just like 95!
There have been problems with some of the recent hotfixes, mainly to do with RAS and in my case dual boot failing. Or your problem "might" be to do with a hardware failure or a corrupt file on the hard disk, I sometimes get problems on one of my NT boxes during startup, a kick hard boot usually "fixes" it.
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Figured out the problem. It's amazing what kind of funky state your system can get in when you try and delete msvcrt.dll after a reboot.  
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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Navin wrote:
the Windows Login process quits unexpectedly and causes a bluescreen.
That's what happens when winlogon.exe dies. If you can't log in, the system bluescreens since... well, you can't log in. 
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Thats what I love about windows, if you do what it wants you to it'll end up breaking it :P For example today I was using the Microsoft Base Security Analyzer (see earlier thread) and it told me I shouldn't be using Builtin\Administrators as an Adminstrator on SQL Server, I thought I guess it makes sense. I followed its instructions and guess what, I can no longer even access the Server because SA is not associated with a trusted connection,  I guess it was a sign to just uninstall it. I haven't been using it and my new 2k3 Server should be finished soon  ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
As for your problem, I've never used NT 4, but I would suggested backing up the HD and being prepared for a re-install or OS upgrade.
Matt Newman
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Matt Newman wrote:
As for your problem, I've never used NT 4, but I would suggested backing up the HD and being prepared for a re-install or OS upgrade.
THat's just it - this machine is DriveImaged, so it is trivial to get it back up and running. My problem was that I wanted to know *why* it was crashing, becuase obviously something in my app caused it to start crashing.
Windows didn't help me at all in this scenario. I looked through my debug log files and figured out what was going on. (As noted in a thread above, Windows NT will do strange things if you remove msvcrt.dll. )
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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Navin wrote:
Windows didn't help me at all in this scenario. I looked through my debug log files and figured out what was going on. (As noted in a thread above, Windows NT will do strange things if you remove msvcrt.dll.
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
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Matt Newman wrote:
SA is not associated with a trusted connection
I had this problem until I enabled mixed mode authentication in SQL. Apparently it's set to NT authentication by default. HTH
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I apply all the latest patches from windows update and it still says all my pcs are severe risks. Also is it possible to have it ignore the Password never expires problem. I tend to believe if you have people change their password too frequently they will forget it and require it to be reset frequently. After getting tired of this they just tape it to their pc or place a sticky note somewhere on their desk which is way less security than letting them keep their same password...
John
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I'm downloading it now, I'll see what I can figure out
[EDIT]Some warnings are custom settings. For example my Outlook Security is set to Custom (I allow only trusted domains) and it would prefer I were on Medium instead. As for the never expires password, it doesn't even check on XP Pro not on a domain, so I'm not sure about that. As for the updates, there are a few that I have never seen on Windows Update.[/EDIT]
Matt Newman
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I've used it, after applying everything I can think of to protect it, and after installing all the available security patches. It still reports severe risk. I guess they know best...
I suspect that the only way to make a server secure by the standards of this tool is to disconnect all the NICs and modems.
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Roger Wright wrote:
It still reports severe risk. I guess they know best...
Thanks. I was wondering if it was just me...
John
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I managed to get mine down to potential risk. The only reason it was that was because it couldn't determine if some updates were installed (they were) and my Office 2000 Macro settings were too low (I don't have Office 2000 installed  )
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Jokes should at least try to be intelligent - this is just toilet humor" - Heath Stewart
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Matt Newman wrote:
(MBSA) Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
From the likes of this thread, this sounds like another winner of an app to me. 
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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Navin wrote:
From the likes of this thread, this sounds like another winner of an app to me.
Its nice because it points out things I normally wouldn't think of, but it kind of craps out with beta-ware and previously lingering unistalled software reg keys
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Jokes should at least try to be intelligent - this is just toilet humor" - Heath Stewart
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They realize that there are security problems inherent in the OS, I suppose. 
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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Thanks for all who answered... So it is not just me...
John
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Hi there:
I am interested in getting some information on what to look for when detecting spyware and keystroke loggers. Is it keyboard hooks, and interprocess message intercepts? And how do I determine if they are occuring? I have seen many applications out there but I am not sure if I trust some of them any more than I trust the original spyware. Is there a quick do-it-yourself solution?
J.
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I don' tknow how to determine them, but Ad-aware[^] is really good and easy.
Matt Newman
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Hi!
I have Win XP home edition preinstalled. I want to install XP Pro to install. But I do not want to go through, uninstalling xp home and back-uping my entire hard disk to do that. Is there an easy way to upgrade my OS without losing any data?
Please help
thanks,
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You can upgrade to XP Pro, but your still gonna want to back up and you may just be better off doing a fresh install.
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Jokes should at least try to be intelligent - this is just toilet humor" - Heath Stewart
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I'll second doing a backup, but I was surprisingly happy with the upgrade from Home to Pro on my laptop.
After 8 months of use it finally got to the point where enough junk had accumulated to make me want to reinstall from scratch but those 8 months were enough for HP to upload a driver pack so I could do the install from scratch 
James
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