So it's come to this - I see no other option than to ask a "help me fix my PC" question. After some troubleshooting the STOP errors seem to have been resolved, XP now boots successfully but is excruciating slow to the point of being unusable. Details and specs below the fold. [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2007 - 25 answers

How to restore the "system state" data on an XP system? [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2006 - 4 answers

I own all of the southpark dvds and I want to rip each episode to an individual file for my media center. I know I can do this manually but it is tedious. Is there any Rip software that can do a batch conversion?
posted on May 4, 2006 - 2 answers

I've taken the role as a graphic designer at a small company, and I also wear the IT hat sometimes. That being said, I'm more of a Mac Guru than (blech) XP. BUT, we have a small file server (40 GB, half full) of data we would like to backup nightly. #1: What's a good tape drive (or other media) for that much data, with room to grow, of course. #2: What software? #3: What's a "typical" backup schedule. I'd prefer just to do incrementals, but how often to rotate tapes/etc...? Thanks!
posted on Oct 6, 2005 - 11 answers

I will be wiping the hard drive of my Dell Inspiron 600m, which is currently running Windows XP with multiple profiles. What's the best way to make sure I back up everything? [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2005 - 6 answers

I am looking for a fault-tolerant file copying freeware/shareware (WinXP) for copying very large directories (> 100GB) from volume A to volume B. By "fault tolerant", I mean that the process won't die if a particular subdir or file won't copy, it will just keep on chugging and log the problem. This kinda sounds like is a prettified, Windows equivalent of rsync. Anyone?
posted on Aug 9, 2005 - 15 answers

What should I do with my new hard drive? [more inside]
posted on Apr 21, 2005 - 11 answers

I've used standard MS Backup with DLT and it's really getting old (just snapped a tape and lost a 5 hour backup session). [more inside]
posted on Mar 27, 2005 - 7 answers

I'm looking for a way to automatically back-up specified directories to a web server under Windows XP. [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2005 - 3 answers

What's a good program to automate backing up one hard drive to another one on the same box in Windows XP?

Something that made a complete backup of certain folders every morning would be ideal.
posted on Dec 15, 2003 - 19 answers