Some of you may have experienced “Unmountable Boot Volume” blue screen error message when Windows XP first start up. The error occurs usually because windows did not shut down properly.

To resolve the problem you simply need to run scandisk or chkdsk command. But since windows unable to load properly, you will need another computer and connect the HDD as a slave or you can use BartPE - Windows XP Live on CD.

After you got BartPE up and running, open Command Prompt and type chkdsk c: /r. That command will check the C drive and also fix errors and locate bad sectors.

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Who doesn’t know Friendster? Everyone knows Friendster and some people even got addicted with it. Friendster is a good media for social networking. It helps us stay connected with friends, families or even celebrity fans club.

That’s not just it. Friendster also has other features such as picture gallery, private message, bulletin board, your friends’ birthday reminder and even blog for your personal website or online diary.

And sometime, people often use Friendster’s private message facility to send message to friends instead of sending the message directly via email.

Let’s get to the point then. Why you should NOT depend on Friendster too much.

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I installed the full package of Gallery2 last monday and got all the modules activated. I found out that my gallery was very very very slow

Today, I have disabled and deleted some unnecessary modules out of my gallery and it loads a lot faster than before. If you downloaded the full package, you don’t need all the modules in there. Make sure you only upload the necessary modules.

For me, I only use the following modules which I think necessary for my gallery:

• Captcha - can help to prevent spam comments by bots.
• URL Rewrite - usefull for friendly url for search engine, but only works with Apache.
• Gd graphic toolkit - on the fly photo manipulation
• Image Block - to show random, most viewed, or most recent photo outside your gallery.
• Sitemap - can help to create sitemap for Google crawlers.
• Comments - to give visitors the ability to post comments on albums or photos.

You can also enable some additional modules like ImageFrame, Slideshow & Watermark to add more feature into your gallery.

Here is my quick tip to fix “NTLDR is Missing” error on Windows XP:

1. Boot the computer with a bootable CD or floppy that can read and write the C:\ drive. I recommend you to use BartPE as it’s a very easy and usefull tool to fix windows offline.
2. Download NTLDR is Missing.zip, extract and save the 3 files into your C:\ drive.
3. You may need to modify the boot.ini file to fit your need. 99% chance you won’t need to change it
4. Restart your computer … and Done

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Forgot your NT admin password? Reinstall? Oh no… Not any more…

Overview

• This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your NT system.
• You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
• It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD. The bootdisk includes stuff to access NTFS and FAT/FAT32 partitions and scripts to glue the whole thing together.
• Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
• It is also an almost fully functional registry editor!

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