I've sadly recently found evidence that one of my 60 GB Maxtor HDs is at risk of failing. It's especially worrying as this 3-year old drive contains my two most important partitions: C:, my Win XP Home OS and half my program files; and D:, most of my data and the other half of my program files. The...

Hi, Is it possible to mix 28- and 48-bit LBA on a single ATA channel? I have a machine with two channels; one carries a pair of CD drives, and the other currently has an 80 GB hard drive. I haven't enabled LBA48 in the OS, so i assume everything is using LBA28. I'd like to add a second hard drive...

Just picked up the Maxtor 200GB Shared Storage - H01P200 - It installed pretty easily on our home network.... Used DHCP for an address. Added an Admin password - had to look in book for "user=admin". Then changed it from DHCP to a static address. I setup a laptop with the mapped drive - using the...

i'm trying to understand how caches work and am a little confussed. a 16-bit address with a 4-kilobit page has a maximum index of 2^4 and a total of 4096 offsets. 4096 is equal to 2^(16-4). but what about a 32-bit address with an eight kilobit page? the maximum index is 2^8, and there are a...

I have a Dell 745N storage device in which one of the raided volumes failed due to a hdd failure. The hdd was replaced and the raid rebuilt itself (hardware raid), but some smart guy went into the controller setup and re-initialized the volume. What I suspect happened was that the controller...

I've got Windows XP seeing my new SATA drive and I have Ghosted the old IDE C: drive to the SATA drive, but I can't work out how to make the SATA drive the boot drive for XP. I have an Asus A8V motherboard (VIA K8T800Pro + VT8237) - the slightly confusing thing is that the VIA support includes...

"Ann Onimus" wrote in message ... Hello :) will somebody please explain to me in plain words what is MBR, partition table, NTDLR and boot sector? Yes, I have googled this but some plain words will do just nicely......

I have a samsung x30 laptop that orginally came with a 60GB hard drive. i have bought a bigger 120GB toshiba hard drive. Basically i used Norton Ghost's 'copy drive' feature to copy everything (including the OS) to this new drive. i obviously pressed a wrong option when doing the wizard. so now...

I have a home network with 4 computers, 3 desktops and one laptop, as well as two ReplayTVs. The main computer is mine; I have an Asus p4pe mb with two SATA drives connected to the onboard controller (Promise). I have a Plextor DVD burner attached to the IDE connector. In addition to the storage...

I was trying to set up Linux on a disk with an unformatted partition intended for Linux. In one of the steps I accidentally chose Autopartition/New on a new disk. Without asking for confirmation the Linux setup program blew away my partition table (actually it set the new partition table to the...

Hi all, I know there have been lots of discussions related to backing up tapes at low data rates, and the effects of shoeshining etc, however we have a specific issue with the Tandberg (aka Quantum) SDLT 600 tape drive and was wondering whether anyone else had encountered this. Problem: In the...

Yesterday I had less than 1 GB free on my laptop hard drive (with 4 GB of stuff in the Recycle Bin). The laptop became unresponsive while running some programs, and I had to switch it off and back on again at the power. Everything seemed fine. Later I noticed that there was 3 GB free on the hard...

Yesterday I came to the machine, which is always on, but when idle, cuts off the monitor, and nothing would happen (nothing would display) when I used the mouse or keyboard. The first two attempted reboots didn't get Windows to load, but on the third, Windows started the system performed normally....

I have a home LAN with about 20 GB online. As I get more into digital photography and possibly even videos, I expect that amount of storage can grow quite a lot in the next few years. My current tape drive is 7/14 GB, and a full backup each month requires about 4-5 media changes, counting the...

I'm thinking about purchasing a higher RPM hard drive, but there are two issues I'm considering: 1.) Does a higher RPM make a noticeable difference in starting programs and running the OS? (most of my data will be on a larger, slower drive). 2.) Is there any extra noise associated with a higher...

when I am executing SET MAX ADDRESS(0xF9) of ATA command, it is Aborting under windows (win 2000). I have read t13.org and other docs...Based on this , I observed the following are the causes for aborting... 1.) READ_NATIVE_MAX_ADDRESS should be immediately called before SET MAX ADDRESS,...

Hi. I have an issue with being able to view the SMART status of drives included in a Windows 2003 fault-tolerant array. There are 4 - 200GB drives on a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 Controller (non-RAID). 2 drives have the OS partition mirrored in the OS on the front and all four have the data partition...

I replaced my laptop drive four months ago, just to increase speed (7200 RPM) and capacity. After I replaced the disk, I put the old one in an external case, tried it a bit, copied files to and from, etc. and everything was fine. Then I just left the case (with the disk) lying around. Because of...

Hi there So i hooked up 2 usb to ide converters (different manufacturers). Everything worked like a fine swiss watch. Today I wanted to add 2 more, so I bought 2 more that are made by the same manufacturer as one of my existing ones. No matter what I do, I can only have 1 of my new drives...

Hi, My company is spending a whole bunch on money on a server just to host a very important download. It's not a single file. It's several files where users download whatever part they need using our software client. We're getting a Dual xeon 2.8 GHZ server with 2 GB ram and I'm not sure what...