Anyone here have experience making bootable DVDs with restore images using Ghost 8? Following the documentation, you create a "standard" ghost boot floppy. Boot from it, then use it to backup an image to the DVDRW/DVD-R. During the process, it asks you if you want it bootable. If so, then it...

I'm thinking of getting a Plumax External USB 2.0 (3.5) hard drive case from www.PCmicrostore.com Anyone have any good or bad experiences with Plumax or PCmicrostore ?

I have...had an Adaptec AAA-UDMA radi5 ide adaptor. I had HDx dying in the past, dying along with all data it contained... So, eventually I bought an affordable raid 5 card. I though I could put important data on a 3 20gig HD raid 5 array since any one drive could die It would still be possible to...

My pc is not booting since Partition Magic 'fixed' it. I used Maxblast to copy my system to my new 120gb drive. It worked and the system run with the new drive as the new system drive after I hide the old drive (40gb) with PM. I used PM again and after it fixed the partition table, the...

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Ever since installing an 80GB Maxtor SATA HD, my system stalls at boot up. It goes at normal speed until it his the windows splash screen, then it takes quite a while before actually entering into windows, sometimes even several minutes. My system and setup is as follows: ASUS P4P800...

Hi, Has anyone experience with entry-level NAS (network attached storage) devices like the Lacie Ethernet Disk (http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10073)? Thanks, Dominique

I have a tower case with a heap of hard drives installed and my 0.47m IDE will not reach the drives in the upper bays. I really don't need the aesthetic of 'round' cables and I certainly don't need the extra cost f these. Where can I get 70cm+ inexpensive ribbon cables suitable for...

warning I am somewhat newbie I have a Dell Optiplex GX110 with Western Digital WD102BA 9.544Gb drive runningWin2000 and system bios A02 and Intel(r) 82801AA Bus Master IDE Controller. i would like to add a second drive: WD800BB what would I need to replace for this to work? ATA card? system bios...

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I liked watching the graph when benchmarking, now i get this DULL stale, box with nothing ?, just telling me whats going on and me not seeing it whats up with this ?, bring back the old view. If there is a way to change it and i missed it just call me a stupid ****er and ill will be :) Thanks.

Two same drives 250G with same firmware, WD2500JBRTL. Attached to same computer, sometimes even to same socket with same jumper setting. One of them says SMART disabled in native DOS program Data Lifeguard Tools v.11. The drives attached to Promise Ata-100TX2 and partitioned same sizes 120 +130...

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1075481668 Look like they've got the CPU utilisation figures correct. -- Derek

Can I fit a 3.5 inch HD (from a laptop) to the IDE connector on a PC? If so, where can I find out the correct pin-outs?

Win2000ProSP4 Laptop was only USB1. Needed additional HDD capacity so I got an Addonics Cardbus adapter for USB2 and a USB2 external HDD. Both components got automatically detected without Windows asking for new drivers. I then formatted the external HDD for NTFS and began copying enormous...

I have a USB2.0 CD/DVD enclosure made by "Stardom". It is a nice little unit but so far it SEEMS to be causing me some problems. I get blue screen errors sometimes when accessing this device. As far as I know there are no drivers necessary for this unit. I have a LiteOn CDRW drive and a Sony...

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I need advice on some of the tools that are available for recovering data from a RAID 0 array with FAT32. I will have to do this without a RAID controller because I fried the motherboard (a KT7A-RAID). Also, I don't think I have the RAID configuration parameters that I used. The files I want to...

Hello-- I would like to remove the dual boot I have and use only W2K. I know the steps to do this (see email below please), hoever I cannot find any file named "boot.ini" on my machine. I am looking while booted to W2K. ANy suggestions??? Your help is much appreciated.

What freeware tool can I use to recreate a partition table if I know the original partition structure? While trying BootIT NG with option of more than 4 primary partition, it appears to have written to the wrong hard-drive. What follows are my notes on the structure it showed. After more recovery...