My computer on XP Home has recently recovered from a stop error and crash. I
tried recovering using "Novastor Disaster Recovery Boot Disk" which did not
work so
I reinstalled XP Home.

I got the message from my server "There is an IP address conflict with
another system on the Network". When I check through the event Viewer
it shows "The system detected an address conflict for IP address
10.0.0.1 with the system having network hardware address

I have a C:\ partition that in "my computer" shows 4.00GB but when I go
into disk management it shows 59.xxGB. why isn't windows seeing this?
How can I fix this?
Thanks,

Ok, I need help and I need help quick.  I went to upgrade my main server to
R2 today.  I started the setup and it was going smooth, entered in my key and
everything, then it got down to 25 minutes installing and nothing.  Stopped.  
Did a reboot and tried to repair the setup, but ...

I know people keep talking about when demoting NT4 PDC, we need to
reinstall the OS.
But I am wondering if there is any other way such as make modification
to the registry which could also get the job done.

I have server 2003 with 3 hard driver ... two are dynamic drives and one
is basic ...
boot and system partition is on basic drive ...
I want to convert it to dynamic drive and i simply can't ..

W2K3 SP1 is installed on a  Workgroup: FS-01.
Each area have his own workgroup (windows Workgroup: Class1 ....)
Each user has a local account
Files are stored on \\@IP\Doc\School

on Windows 2003 Server I'd like to redirect the temporary files
(C:\WINDOWS\Temp) on another disk in another directory. What should I do ?
Thank you for your help.
P.S. : I'm french, so please use a basic english.

How do I install Windows 2003 server to use a non-standard boot and system
drives? In our environment, we cannot allow Windows to use drive C for
anything. I've been told there is a way to install it to run using drive H
or something else for the boot and system partitions. ...

I am setting up a Win2003 box to act as a web server. I haven't
installed much yet, but the computer is extremely slow to boot. I get
the logon screen pretty fast, then the wallpaper, but the icons take
about 10 minutes before they show up.

I have installed Windows Server 2003 Web Edition from scratch
Runs Win Update, and it wants to install SP1. Fine.
After a while it fails when copying shell32.dll.
Same scenario if i let it do automatic update (no surprise)

i can not get w2k3sp1-standard to sync to a time server.  i have tried
time.windows.com, time.nist.gov, and even to a local machine.  other
machines on my lan can sync to those sources, and they can sync to the lan
machine also.  i have added port 123 udp and tcp to the windows ...

I am getting a bit confused.
Is the term R2 used as new identifier for SP2?
If it is, is it also free to download?

I recently added  a second scope to my DHCP so that I now have
192.168.0....254 and range 192.168.1.....254
I then added a second server and assigned it a static IP 192.168.1.4.
All was well with authentication and seeing other shares on the network.

I am trying to put up a new server (IBM x3500 with ServerRaid 8K).
When I install the SAS Raid driver using F6 and adding the driver, I
can see and partition the drive array with no problems.  After
formatting the array, just as it is time to copy over the files to the