On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:08:31 +0100 "Dominique Potter" wrote: Hi, I had two IBM Deskstar 60gb drives on a Highpoint Raid 0 configuration. One of the drives failed and is not recognised by my motherboard at a bios level. The working drive has been re-used in a...

I'll be indebted to whomever can answer this question: On trying to create a backup from Symantec's Ghost 2003, the following message was returned: "A virtual partition DLL could not be located" It was about to restart my PC, and instead did nothing after that point. Symantec are great when...

With all the bits that are lying around this place I thought that I could build up a secondary computer. I have here a once 'suspect' Maxtor 30Gb drive plugged in as master to a Platinix 2 1.7 Mhz (circa late 2001). This Maxtor was once a slave and developed problems as I found out last night...

I'm having a strange issue with a FAT32 filesystem. This fs has Win98SE installed on it (OEM), and Windows will not boot from the drive, not even in command-prompt-only mode (further details below), even after I booted from CD and ran SYS C: So I ran scandisk, and got this: ScanDisk encountered...

I have recently partitioned my 80GB disc into 4 NTFS (1 primary and 3 data) and 1 FAT. The intention was to use one of the data partitions to store my less used program files, and, hopefully, speed up operations in the primary. Unfortunately, after uninstalling a few from the primary partition and...

When using Drive Image 7.0 to clone or restore a disc I receive, soon after starting, a message that an unhandled exception has occurred with an overflow or underflow in the arithmetic operations. Further research produced the following:- ************** JIT Debugging ************** To enable just...

Hi there, I need an exact match for a Maxtor DiamondMax VL 20 hard drive. Here are the specs: Maxtor DiamondMax VL 20 Model: 92041U4 HDA: 04A PCBA: 03A Unique: 13A

Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro (nForce 2) matched with WD1200JB WB800JB IBM Deskstar 40's (RAID 0) On my previous Mainboard EPOX 8KHA+ I was getting about 30K; with the WD1200JB (SiSoftware Sandra 2002 Professional) with the new Mainboard I'm only getting 20K (ATA100 setting in BIOS and XP set).

Data loss, data rate slower. "Scott" wrote in message ... I'll ask my 2 questions at the top in case people don't want to read the details: #1. Is it bad to use a 40-pin standard EIDE cable for a 16x DVD-ROM and 48x CD...

wrote in message ... I have D.I. 2002 and , in the preamble it advises to Backup drives before making any significant changes . Thats mostly before doing stuff like resizing partitions etc. I've always made Image Files with this...

I'm looking for a decent Firewire enclosure for a 7200rpm IDE hard disk. The enclosure needs to have dual 1394 ports so it can be daisy-chained. I gather a 5.25" form factor box is a good idea for heat disipation. Is the dirt cheap 5.25" ByteCC enclosure (ME-320F ) good enough for...

hi, After upgraded BIOS to ver. C03 and running dell diagnostics, diag reports bad sector 0. when i opened the computer the HD was a IBM OEM DLGA 23080 made for apple! it says Internal HDD firmware for apple computers. can this work?!? tried to install linux redhat and it went fine but win98 wont...

Don't know about Ghost, DriveImage can, HARDWARE RAID that is. -- Joep "Timothy Daniels" wrote in message ... How does one do backups of the 2 hard drives with

Anyone knows the noise levels on the lates S-ATA disks from Maxtor, WD and Seagate?? Want the most quiet one. :-)

I am currently running a full cab full of NetApp, but am looking for a new solution for a new project. Ideally, I would like a commercial IDE RAID NAS with Linux/Windows support. It must be able to go into a failover mode like a NetApp, hotswap, and have a decent track record and/or company...

extreme wrote in message ... i downloaded the program powermax from maxtor.com to fix my hdd bad sectors. it worked. but what im interested is that how does it fixes them?? Basically by using the spares. isnt bad...

If you have any interest, let me know and I will get you a list over. Its all NEW from UK Distribution, so full warranty is in place. Simon

I recently got a Napa PA24 USB pen drive/mp3 player. When I copy mp3 files to it either by dragging and dropping from Windows Explorer or using xcopy in a DOS box, when the mp3s are played back they are not in the order that I copied them. In fact they don't seem to be in any particular order at...

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:22:51 GMT (Scott) wrote: I'll ask my 2 questions at the top in case people don't want to read the details: #1. Is it bad to use a 40-pin standard EIDE cable for a 16x DVD-ROM and 48x CD writer running in UDMA mode? Given that these are...

On 27 Jul 2003 02:30:08 -0700 (Nymphetamine) wrote: Last year I bought a Travelstar 8GB external drive, PCMCIA for my Dell Inspiron. Drive properties state capacity is 7.71GB and 6.11GB is used, 1.49GB is free. Why can't I save anything else to this disk if there...