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- Hacking XP for softRAID1

28th April 2007
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This page contains a truly great hack to force XP's disk manager to offer disk mirroring. Microsoft frequently disables functionality to distinguish their products from one another. The difference between NT workstation and server was a few registry keys. Here, the hack is a little more complicated, but not for emacs or vi users.

Of course, you will want to back up the original files. And this hack voids warantees, etc...

Note that the change in dmconfig.dll isn't quite right. There should be only 4 null bytes after WINNT, not 7. This changes the file size and the offsets. Very bad.

UPDATE: Happy 1000th post, taskboy.

1 Comments | Add comment | Tags: hack • programming • Windows XP
Microsoft ahoy!
:: 30th Apr 2007 - 14:04
:: Nate
The more I find the need to fiddle with Microsoft stuff, the more I realize that practically *anything* is possible with the Microsoft product. I realize that it's not inflexible or without features. It's just moribund and arcane (and not in a way that I find intuitive). If you know how to take proper backups of a Microsoft system, and have the luxury of trial and error, practically anything is possible. This is not to say that I'm a fan of Things Microsoft in as much as I can attest to having lots of success with this platform in totally unexpected ways.

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