Gallienus

Have been using Linux for the past 5-6 years. Have 5 crashes in 6 years but some of those may be hardware problems. Windows max is 5 crashes in one day. If Linux is a monkey wrench, Windows is a very soft stone.

Trying to format a Samsung 120 GB IDE hard drive FAT32. Want one partition of 120GB. All utilities, even Swissknife will only format to 31.4 GB leaving the other 90 GB unformatted. How format beyond the famous 32 GB barrier??? Drive must be formatted FAT32 since it will then be …

I have custom built cpu w/ a Sata boot Hard drive. Maxtor 320GB. I have a slave old IDE drive. The compture currently runs Linux booting from the SATA. I wish to also install Windows XP 64bit on a 141 GB FAT32 partition on this Hard drive. Maxtor only provides …

One computer w/ Win XP-home wired to a router. Router runs DHCP & assigns Ip addresses. Comp can ping other computer and can browse internet. Cannot even view contents of Network Places: acts as if it's unclickable. Second computer Win XP Pro 64 bit can view Network Places & see …

There should be some reason why Netowrking doesn't work. You just gave a laundry list for checking everything & if all else fails just buy a new OS & reinstall it. ============================================= [QUOTE=Bob_180_Bob;687358]It is not necessarily a SP3 caused problem but it sure sounds like it was something done by …

I am in same boat. Am trying to setup Win XP 64 bit on IDE drive with Linux on boot SATA drive. I can't get my 120 GB HDD to format FAT32. All format tools just format it 31.5 GB max: not 120 GB. Any suggestions? Windows tools extremely difficult …

Hi, Just bought a Western digital 10,000 rpm sata Hard drive that I'd like to use for boot. Motherboard has 6 ata ports + an IDE. Have an old IDE HDD as master w/ an IDE cd-rom. When I plug in the sata hard drive it isn't recognised by computer …