Hello. Is it me or are those desktop IBM PCs' internal memory card readers really bad? I owned two of them (cost $15 IIRC) so far. Their big CompactFlash/CF memory card reader slots' pins keep getting bent every time I insert an old memory card. I even do it slowly and softly. I did not have...

I recently connected my 3 1/2" floppy drive to one of my systems, and discovered that all my old floppies are no longer readable. And, most of them can't even be formatted successfully. No real surprise here, since most of the disks are well over 10 years old, including lots of those AOL...

Looking at several file backup programs and they all seem to want to backup a session into some big file with a strange file extension like a cab file. Nero backup, Microsoft Backup, etc. When you go to Restore from these, it probably works fine if your setup is the same, but if the backed up...

What does this mean? Hard drive (Maxtor 80GB int.) is recognized on bootup POST but not by windows. Computer can't boot from it, and does not recognize it from a DOS floppy boot. Removed and installed as a slave in another machine: POST does properly identify it as before but windows (Explorer or...

Been getting ready to build a second PC. Made me review how much stuff I have got on my present system. Using 'MyUninstaller' http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html I can see I have 511 installed programs! In addition there are those programs which didn't need any installation. I reckon I...

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frequently debated here http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html and the future of storage by ibm The Millipede: A future AFM-based data storage system http://www.zurich.ibm.com/st/storage/millipede.html

I have this nice 1 TB WD Scorpio HDD with Intelli Park bug. wdidle3 and idle3-tools don't work on this one. So far I can get is to change some MOD in SA area to stop the Intelli Park thing. But then with this modification I get a click sound randomly. From 40 seconds to 2 minutes. And the SMART...

Hello to everyone!! Just came back from holidays and first day at job started with a server failure!!!:mad::mad: It is a poweredge 2600 server which we had it working on Raid5 (3 hard disks) One of them broke down so we removed it and since it is Raid5 it continued working with 2 hard disks. As...

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:46:42 GMT Bud Freeman wrote: At home my family has several computers connected to a wired (T100) network. Since each of us produces a large amount of critical files which we'd like to backup for an indefinite amount of time, as well as to...

Hi I've had good results using a particular file recovery program but it will only search for standard files types i.e. doc, txt, generic picture formats etc etc. Are then any recovery utilities which can be instructed to look for a non standard extension or part of a file name which isn't a...

Tried two cards with this external USB 2.0/eSATA hard disk drive - both from: www.misco.co.uk 1. Lacie 2x port PCI 150 card costing about 20 UKP http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=10807 2. Adaptec 2x port 1225SA PCI-EXPRESS 300 card costing about 43 UKP

Hey all, I've recently been trying to fix my mothers computer so naturally I placed her harddrive into my computer to see if it worked. I bought a new drive and put it in my now working computer also, alas neither of them worked. The old HD I could have reformatted but I'm trying to salvage...

Postal Lottery: Turn $6 into $60,000 in 90 days, GUARANTEED I found this in a news group and decided to try it. A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now and came across a message just like this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with...

I purchased a network attached storage device called a Lan Drive model HD9-U2LA and I think it was from RJTech but the documentation indicates it is a USBEX device (http://www.usbex.com/landrive) The drive is either a network device or a USB device (not both at once). It works, but I have a few...

I connected 4 units Seagate ST340016A ATA100 to a 3W-7450 (firmware & Windows driver 7.7.0) and compared read & write speeds between RAID0 & JBOD with HDTach 2.7 on unformatted drives, but very puzzled to find RAID0 (4-drive striped 1024K write-cache enabled) slower than JBOD speeds. Here are the...

Anyone know what the story is with USB flash drives which suddenly say they need formatting? I have a few and some of them suddenly stop working, with the windows explorer error message when you click on what looks like a perfectly normally working drive telling you that they need formatting. I...

I bought a new 80G Toshiba 2.5" HD to use as a backup USB drive for my ancient desktop. I run Win 98SE on the 233Mhz desktop. At first the desktop couldn't see more than 10G of the USB drive. Someone suggested updating the Fdisk to a newer version. I did and bingo, it could now see 80G. I...

I have been reading about many different ways to back up data. Is there a popular method that is used today? I am trying to decide on Tapes or DVDs or any other method. Is there a convention method that is used today? I would probably be backing up the system once a week. I would be backing up...

We have a number of IBM LTO fibre channel tape drives in a StorageTek L700 library. A manual tape insertion to the drive(s) works fine, and the drive shows status as Loaded. The instant we connect the drive to a Brocade full-fabric 2250 fibre channel switch, the drive shows status...