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I got the problem fixed in the wea hours of the morning. What ever the problem was, was caused by something in the MBR of the drives. I Zero filled the first and last part of the drives and now it works fine. I even had to spend an hour chatting with dell tech support, and even they could not...

I have already downloaded and installed all the drivers. The drivers are not the problem when the OS can not see the hardware. A Display Adapter is not even listed in the Device Manager generic, NVIDIA or other wise, in fact the catagory is not even listed. Neither was Network Adapters until...

I am a PC Technician and Windows Network Engineer. I have a problem I have not seen before nor do I know what to do about it. I have just reformatted a client’s computer. It is a Dell Precision 370. It has Intel Chip set 925x/xe. It has a NVIDIA Quadra FX 1300 Video Card. Two 160 gig hard...

I am using SyncBack by 2brightsparks for data back up on Windows systems. This program copies each individual new or modified file, it does not compress them into one file like a zip or rar file unless you want it to. Is their a program like this for linux, with a GUI interface. I have tried...

I have just installed Ubuntu Server. I am using the KDE desktop. I have a second hard drive installed, partitioned, formated and mounted. The problem is even when I give the command to chace permissions either individual owner or group I get the error Operation not permitted I get this...

theniteowl Thank you I have just installed the GUI, and it works.

Thanks for the reply. Is their a Linux Distro that is a Server edition and has a GUI and is easy to use like Ubuntu?

I have just downloaded and installed Ubuntu 7 Server. However, at least that I can see, is command line. I would rather have a GUI. Is their a command that I could execute to start the GUI?

Actually I have not set it up yet to be an FTP Server. I was not aware that it would require the use command line to use the FTP option. This will only be for personal use, not for the general public. I would only use a FTP client such as WS-FTP or Cute FRP. However thanks for the info. I...

Got it working Thanks guys for the help really appreciate it.

ok I was able to preform the above steps and got the drive formated. Now how do I mount it and make sure that it is mounted when the system starts. I tried type mount dev/hdb1 but got error can't find /dev/hdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

When I attempt to execute fdisk -l /dev/hdb I get the following error fdisk: command not found

Forgot to say that I want an ext3 partition.

Although I am a Windows Network engineer, I am new to Linux. I have a older system that I have installed Fedora 6 on that among other things will be using as an FTP Server. I want to a second hard drive for the use of FTP. However the question is how do I format and mount this drive. I found...

I have written a program that does several tasks. These will just be two of them. In my job I may have several computers that need to be in the same workgroup and be named PC-1 PC2 extra. This feature would make changeing them easier and quicker. I don't care how it is done as long as the...

What is the easiest way to change the Computer Owners Name? What is the easiest way to change the Work Group Name?

How can this same process be done in Visual Basic 6? Any of the givin commands different?

Connect an external monitor to the notbook and see if you get the stripe on it too. If you do then sounds like your video card. Check for new drivers. If the stripe is not on the external monitor your monitor may be going bad.

Most hard drives can take a fair amount of abuse. I have put some through some abuse. But when you consider that the head is so close to the platter that a piece of paper would not fit between them, no need to put them thru ore abuse then necessary. Like a I said $5.00 for a can of air or...

First you if the Hard drive is the only IDE device on the cable the drive should be set as a stand alone or single drive. Some hard drives Master setting is also the single drive but not all of them. If you only have one cd drive on the cable it is connect to then it should be master or Cable...