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well, i found a way to save me 20 bucks. activate the recovery partition in the disk management and restart the machine and it will automatically boot to that partition. Tam

i have a HP pavilion 2700 model and i need to do a system recovery from its recovery partition. i tried the F11 option but didn't take me anywhere, all other options like F1, F2, F9, F10 are working. I also have gone into the BIOS to see if F11 might have been disable by default but didn't...

well, it seems like the recovery image from the machine prevents me from doing the upgrades. i switched out the harddrive and it works great.

when try boot from pro cd. it doesn't give me same error message but rather saying something contact sys admin and give me one option..that is quit (f3). the error comes one after the 1st reboot. furthermore, i was able to boot from the pro cd, it proceed to installs some file then roboot...

i try to upgrade xp media to xp pro. after the initial installations just after it first reboot, Windows tell me the hal.dll file is corupted. i tried a clean install using the xp pro disc, and it's error out saying contact sys admin with just a quit option (f3) i got the missing hal.dll...

how did you turn off mediaserver?

hi, we share calenders using the Publish My Calendar tool. this requires a Microsoft email live ID like a hotmail account. the problem is that once i use an account say 222@hotmail to publish my calendar; i can not use a different email account to publish that same calendar. does anyone...

hi, i like to know how to setup pptp on 2008 server or does it support pptp at all? thanks!

i have a wireless and ps2 and they both work fine. i am guessing something in the boot.ini file is either missing or disable.

I have a dell dimension 2400 xp. i can't get it to boot in safe mode or bios. when i press f2, f8, or f12 at boot up, it just hangs there. it will boot up to Windows fine without pressing those options. thanks!

is there a way to map a network drive for a user without login to that user account?

anyone know how to access a network share drive using the command prompt in Vista? thanks!

I was hoping that after it reads both files, it will just copy the newer files. becuase what it doing is coping the existing files plus the new files. this is creating traffic especially with users with large files.

anyone know the flag (if it exist at all) that allows robocopy to just copy the changes of a file after the first copy. we want to use robocopy to copy users .pst files. if user A have 4g worth of pst data and says she add 1 more meg in a day. we want robocopy only copy the 1meg after the the...

well, the same calble is used when plugs onto another switch. i have tried using another port but didn't help. if the issue is on the switch end, what can we say about the other 20 users and they don't have any problem at all. here is her topology that don't work. she is connecting directly to...