The Ultimate Computer Help Thread(TUCHT)

[msahr]

Originally Posted by LoveTractor

If anyone wants to buy a new computer with XP on it instead of Vista, you have until June 30 of this year. After that, it's only the unpopular Vista. Just a heads up.

Windows XP: Going, going ... gone?

Unless you have a Dell Premier account...

You get to "downgrade" from Vista to XP Pro. Kinda like "downgrading" from an Xterra to a FJ Cruiser...

[FJBen]

Originally Posted by msahr

Unless you have a Dell Premier account...

You get to "downgrade" from Vista to XP Pro. Kinda like "downgrading" from an Xterra to a FJ Cruiser...

x2

thats what we are doing ....fun fun

[LoveTractor]

To anyone that thinks a reformat gets rid of everything on your hard drive, think again.

Last night I reformatted my media center PC. It was acting up and as you can read above, I'm a huge supporter of annual reformats to start fresh.

Well, I fawked up big time.

Towards the end of the fresh XP install, I realized I had forgotten to back up one CRUCIAL bit of files. My wife's and my honeymoon pictures from Spain.


So I naturally kinda freaked out. But, as an IT geek, I also knew that there is software out there that can get the stuff back since nothing is ever completely gone unless you use other programs to thoroughly delete stuff. I downloaded BinaryBiz's VirtualLab Client and hooked my hard drive up to my laptop as a slave. Clicked the button to look for deleted pictures and let it do its thang.

I was fricken amazed! It found EVERYTHING! Every single one of ya'll's avatars that was saved in cache, every single picture I had ever looked at on the web(no matter how mundane) including small "link pics", even random clip pics of videos I watched off sites like CBS and ABC, and it even found some NSFW stuff I hadn't looked at for years!

I got the honeymoon pictures too.

So if you're doing anything illegal on your computers or anything that might make trouble for you in a divorce, use a program like the one mentioned in the first post to wipe your hard drives clean. A "reformat" does NOT get rid of anything.

[beaufort-fj60]

hard drive question

I have a dell with a bum hard drive. The drive is a western digital wd caviar wd200... what can I replace this with?

[amos715]

Originally Posted by beaufort-fj60

hard drive question

I have a dell with a bum hard drive. The drive is a western digital wd caviar wd200... what can I replace this with?

any IDE hard drive, pick one up at best buy or staples

now get out of the way i have some serious questions

[beaufort-fj60]

Originally Posted by amos715

any IDE hard drive, pick one up at best buy or staples

now get out of the way i have some serious questions

how do I know yer not lying to me?

[amos715]

i have just installed windows server 2003

and a trial copy of exchange (i did run all the forest prep, domain prep)

i know somehow i have my servers crossed wrong, any one know a short answer on which order to install what?

[amos715]

Originally Posted by beaufort-fj60

how do I know yer not lying to me?

i have been a dell warranty tech for years

throw in your new har drive

when you turn on the machine press F2

turn on the scroll locl, cap lock, num lock

hold down the Alt key

press E, then F, then B

computer will do an Automatic IDE configuration and find the new hard drive




edit: of course you can probably just plug in the new hard drive and it will see it just fine. don't buy anything over 120g for the primary hard drive, your bios may not see it if you do

[amos715]

Originally Posted by beaufort-fj60

how do I know yer not lying to me?

don't be ashamed -by your post count you probably know like 1,000,000 times more about Cruisers than me.

now go away and wake up the server gods on your way out

[amos715]

i'm starting over

i'm running the smart start disk as we speak, ok just through in the windows server 2003 r2.


waiting.....................

edit: ok installing sp2, have not joined to any domains. i should wait until after i have install the exchange software before i join it to the domain.? thats a question?

[amos715]

ok i'm just going to use this thread for a sounding board.

i can not get the syntax right for dc diag, is that for windows 2k?

i am going to go ahead and run forestprep, domain prep?

[amos715]

i keep getting the stupid netdiag dcdiag "is not recognized as an eternal external command"

[amos715]

Woo-hoo

I am up and running. Now I have to figure out what to do with it !!! LOL




































No seriously what do I do with it, I’m trying to figure out how to import my users from AD, but I’m afraid I’ll mess something up. Maybe a test group in AD?

[ed97fzj80]

I think you've worked your way into a corner of the really, really skinny section of the bell curve. The section where out of a million people in the curve, you're the only one within a mile of where you are.

[FJBen]

Originally Posted by amos715

Woo-hoo

I am up and running. Now I have to figure out what to do with it !!! LOL




































No seriously what do I do with it, I’m trying to figure out how to import my users from AD, but I’m afraid I’ll mess something up. Maybe a test group in AD?

I'm not sure what your asking. I'm a network admin, we have 2003 Exchange server.

I'm assuming you are trying to run exchange without that server being a Domain Controller?

Can you access another DC in your network? Exchange should get it's user info from there.

[amos715]

Originally Posted by ed97fzj80

I think you've worked your way into a corner of the really, really skinny section of the bell curve. The section where out of a million people in the curve, you're the only one within a mile of where you are.

it funny because it's true.

Originally Posted by FJBen

I'm not sure what your asking. I'm a network admin, we have 2003 Exchange server.

I'm assuming you are trying to run exchange without that server being a Domain Controller?

Can you access another DC in your network? Exchange should get it's user info from there.

your right on the money.
yesterday at about 5:05 pm i figured out how to copy the little "test organizational unit" i created with my four john and jane does over and make them exchange users.

i took one class for server 2003 back in 2003 and have never touched it sense, now i am trying to set up exchange to work. (never have taken an exchange class) i'm going to be taking some classes before long, but i'd like to be ahead of the curve when i get there.

thanks for the help, any advice you want to throw this way would be greatly appreciated.

[amos715]

alrighty......

local user: johndoe@pawneenation.local

can send mail out to my hotmail account but not my local account.

and he is not receiving email

i went in and added what should be his real address to his John Doe properties page

johndoe@pawneenation.org

then added the same address to the e-mail addresses tab under the same properties

of course this has not seemed to help

[amos715]

ok ......

when i open my Exchange Sytem Manger

there are no entries under my default global address list.

[amos715]

ok now i can send and receive mail via exchange as long as the receiving and sending party is on my network

[calphi27]

LT - I have an intel iMac. with 10.5.2 - I am going to buy an external HD. Is is possible to have one part of the HD for time capsule, another part for saved files, and another for xp files from bootcamp?

[LoveTractor]

Originally Posted by calphi27

LT - I have an intel iMac. with 10.5.2 - I am going to buy an external HD. Is is possible to have one part of the HD for time capsule, another part for saved files, and another for xp files from bootcamp?

Calphi, I honestly couldn't tell ya'. I'm still using Tiger and haven't had the need to install a permanent ext. hdd to my Macbook.
But I'm applying for a job at the newly-opened Apple store in town so I might be able to help you then.

[amos715]

Originally Posted by LoveTractor

To anyone that thinks a reformat gets rid of everything on your hard drive, think again.

Last night I reformatted my media center PC. It was acting up and as you can read above, I'm a huge supporter of annual reformats to start fresh.

Well, I fawked up big time.

Towards the end of the fresh XP install, I realized I had forgotten to back up one CRUCIAL bit of files. My wife's and my honeymoon pictures from Spain.


So I naturally kinda freaked out. But, as an IT geek, I also knew that there is software out there that can get the stuff back since nothing is ever completely gone unless you use other programs to thoroughly delete stuff. I downloaded BinaryBiz's VirtualLab Client and hooked my hard drive up to my laptop as a slave. Clicked the button to look for deleted pictures and let it do its thang.

I was fricken amazed! It found EVERYTHING! Every single one of ya'll's avatars that was saved in cache, every single picture I had ever looked at on the web(no matter how mundane) including small "link pics", even random clip pics of videos I watched off sites like CBS and ABC, and it even found some NSFW stuff I hadn't looked at for years!

I got the honeymoon pictures too.

So if you're doing anything illegal on your computers or anything that might make trouble for you in a divorce, use a program like the one mentioned in the first post to wipe your hard drives clean. A "reformat" does NOT get rid of anything.

tractor you are now my new best friend -

i started my new job with the pawnee nation three weeks ago, two days ago the council voted to place the tax comission back under the admin authority of the main office.

the tax comission employees were unhappy about that and walk off their jobs yesterday morning, one of them deleted a bunch of important info off her computer.

i had a big when i got to tell the police chief, council members, finiancial director, and of course my boss - that it was no problem.

over 29000 files recovered - over 1000 that were important financial records, tag info, memos, etc.





edit:

LoveTractor Thread .................................... $0.00

Downloading VirtualLab Client ....................... $0.00

Making Jerks Look Like Super Jerks .............. Priceless

[beaufort-fj60]

I got a free computer with some unbooko Linux crap on it.... what the hell can you do with a Linux computer? server? surf the internet??

[amos715]

Originally Posted by beaufort-fj60

I got a free computer with some unbooko Linux crap on it.... what the hell can you do with a Linux computer? server? surf the internet??

take a linux class or reload windows xp