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Spid's Mon (10/14) Win2K Pro. QoD
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| Hope everyone had a good weekend! Mine wasn't that great. Had to waste my whole Saturday writing year-end reviews and watched my Cleveland Browns get absolutely man-handled by the Tampa Bay Bucs Sunday. (It was not a pretty sight) 
Here's a pretty good question for all of you.
I've got an application that I'm running on my Windows 2000 system. It creates temporary files in the folder that the application is installed into. The wonderful programmers of this application, in their infinite wisdom, have hard-coded the install location and the location of where the program looks to place the temporary files it creates. It also does not do a very good job of erasing the temporary files it creates over time.
The hard drive that the program resides on is nearly full and is causing Dr. Watson errors to appear stating that an application has occured. The good Doctor is closing down your application. This is a direct result of the application attempting to write temporary files that would exceed the available disk space left on the hard drive.
Re-installing the application to another drive is not an option. Why? I don't know, it just not an option. 
Which of the following should you do to give the application more disk space to play with? (Select the best answer)
A. Install a second hard drive and move the application's folder to the second hard drive.
B. Install a second hard drive and move the WINNT folder to the second hard drive.
C. Install a second hard drive. Back up the application's folder, create a volume mount point for the second hard drive to the path of the application's folder and restore from backup.
D. Install a second hard drive. Backup the application's folder and restore it to the second hard drive.
Good luck and see you tomorrow for the answer!! | |
| denis_baribeau 2002-10-14, 9:15 am |
| A. Install a second hard drive and move the application's folder to the second hard drive.
 Can't wait to hear the logic behind this one. | |
| tweetgirl 2002-10-14, 10:02 am |
| I am going with either C or d. You need to backup no matter what you are going to do. I am only guessing. | |
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I am going with either C or d. You need to backup no matter what you going to do. I am only guessing.
Nice guess. You are on the right track | |
| CyberDude 2002-10-14, 10:42 am |
| I will go for C, as you will need to back-up the applications temp directory, delete the contents, mount the second drive into this folder (as you cannot mount into used one), and then restore the files.  | |
| tweetgirl 2002-10-14, 10:56 am |
| Had to do some reseach. Going with C. | |
| Slinky 2002-10-14, 12:03 pm |
| Its most definately C. | |
| namrak 2002-10-14, 12:09 pm |
| Going with answer (C). | |
| twister166 2002-10-14, 12:13 pm |
| The answer wil be E. enable compression.  | |
| NetChild1985 2002-10-14, 1:40 pm |
| Damn it! I'm too late for this question. Anyway, it seems the answer is "C" so I'm going with it! | |
| tweetgirl 2002-10-14, 4:03 pm |
| I like twister166's answer:
The answer wil be E. enable compression. | |
| rafman 2002-10-14, 4:19 pm |
| L8 but still going with C:
Although I've never received the kind of error that appears at the end of this paragraph: The hard drive that the program resides on is nearly full and is causing Dr. Watson errors to appear stating that an application has occured.
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| twister166 2002-10-14, 5:55 pm |
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I like twister166's answer:
The answer wil be E. enable compression.
Thank you very much! Always look for the extra support! | |
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| Man o man, what a rough crowd today | |
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| oldsaltdoggie 2002-10-15, 5:30 am |
| How about "F", get rid of the F'in application and find one that won't fill up your drives , You could be adding drive space forever! LOL
If these are the only answers I'll say "c" too. | |
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Hope everyone had a good weekend! Mine wasn't that great. Had to waste my whole Saturday writing year-end reviews and watched my Cleveland Browns get absolutely man-handled by the Tampa Bay Bucs Sunday. (It was not a pretty sight)
Here's a pretty good question for all of you.
I've got an application that I'm running on my Windows 2000 system. It creates temporary files in the folder that the application is installed into. The wonderful programmers of this application, in their infinite wisdom, have hard-coded the install location and the location of where the program looks to place the temporary files it creates. It also does not do a very good job of erasing the temporary files it creates over time.
The hard drive that the program resides on is nearly full and is causing Dr. Watson errors to appear stating that an application has occured. The good Doctor is closing down your application. This is a direct result of the application attempting to write temporary files that would exceed the available disk space left on the hard drive.
Re-installing the application to another drive is not an option. Why? I don't know, it just not an option.
Which of the following should you do to give the application more disk space to play with? (Select the best answer)
A. Install a second hard drive and move the application's folder to the second hard drive.
B. Install a second hard drive and move the WINNT folder to the second hard drive.
C. Install a second hard drive. Back up the application's folder, create a volume mount point for the second hard drive to the path of the application's folder and restore from backup.
D. Install a second hard drive. Backup the application's folder and restore it to the second hard drive.
Good luck and see you tomorrow for the answer!!
And the answer out of the ones listed to choose from is.....C
Basically this question has to do with the new feature in Windows 2000 called volume mount points. In this case, you should backup the applications folder, erase it's contents, mount the second hard drive to the folder's path and then restore the backup.
Moving the application's folder to the second hard drive without specifiying a mount point would change the path to the application folder. (remember that this wonderful application uses hard coded locations).
Moving the WINNT folder would completely hose your system. (Maybe I should write a question about someone who actually moves the WINNT folder in an attempt to correct this issue. Let me think about this.)
Twister's compression solution would work as well.
But I do like oldsaltdoggie's answer of getting rid of the F'ing application the best |
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