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protokatie:
The computer I have Tinxp on used to have a full version of XP, so I do not consider it piracy to install a shrunken version of the same OS on the same machine.

@ Saint: You may be thinking of NLite, which tiny XP was made with.

@ Ark, I doubt the problem is with the power supply. The HD's have their own power (they are external) and the problem only occures with the drive  that is near full. I am wondering if the bitmap for the near full drive is either too large for XP or that the 256 Megs of ram isn't enough to properly hold the HD's saturated bitmap... The disk itself checks out as allright on my other machines.

Regardless, I will have a brand spanking new machine in a few days to set up as the file server. The old machine will be repurposed at work to show the daily lunch specials and other info. (Using Open Office Impress, unless anyone knows of a better proggy to do this with, I am all ears).

ChadTower:

The major part of the point he was trying to make is that you're still using a third party source to either get or heavily mod your OS and there is still potential for an OS full of malware. 

It's a valid point.

Ed_McCarron:
Is this just for a server?  Check into FreeNAS.

crashwg:
+1 on FreeNAS

I've been using it for a few weeks now and it's great.  I still have to work out file permissions and passwords and such but other than that it's pretty awesome for a free OS.

tep0583:

--- Quote from: saint on October 01, 2009, 11:03:40 pm ---Microsoft may try to make a case that it's illegal to modify the product they sell you, but if you buy a copy of XP, modify it using TinyXP, and then install that single copy on your computer, you haven't pirated a thing.

--- End quote ---

Very true, but he did have a point.

If this is just to store/share files, Linux would probably be a better alternative and more stable than XP (in any form)

I'd personally look at Cent OS 5 or Ubuntu's server offering, but there's literally dozens of alternatives that are free, well supported, and very stable.

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