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Huh? Jumping the gun just a bit aren't we? I agree with you on the fact that when someone says file hosting they mean public file sharing, but minor sharing of files is different. Just need a little more info from the topic creator before jumping to conclusions.
When you talk about people who do you mean, like random anonymous people, or people on your network or organization? There are a bunch of ways to do it with it being as simple as windows file sharing to setting up a full blown php script with authentication. Give a few more details about your...
I agree, customers always seem to bite on the high resources offered by free hosts in return for nothing. Offering sanctuary to customers screwed over by too good to be true hosts probably will be the best method to pursue for hosts that have been around for awhile.
That's a good idea, but in some cases if windows can't read the partition (which may or may not be the case there) then Linux, or any other pre-boot environment may not be able to read it ether.
use the widows repair console and run a chkdsk /r /p (you don't have to use the p, but I just like to). This will repair corrupted system files and restore normal booting. I would however take the advice of making an image first.
How to know if this method is needed. If you make it to the...
Use this tool http://www.mxtoolbox.com/index.aspx to find out if you have an open relay, and if you do, it's the hosting providers fault. You could also make some php test scripts to find out if sendmail or php mail is allowing mail to be sent without authentication.