I was asking about XP Chkdsk in another thread and now Chkdsk reports a glitch on my system. I ran Chkdsk in XP's line command box and got this: --------------------- C:\Documents and Settings\Alfochkdsk The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is C:XP SYSTEM2 WARNING! F parameter...

The following paper makes an observation about heads in a hard drive flying above the same track for an extended time. http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1320000/1317403/p28-elerath.pdf?key1=1317403&key2=0598825521&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=55987317&CFTOKEN=43306914 "Persistent high fly height can also...

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...

Hi, Could some one give me an adivice for hard disk choice, please ? I am looking for something like : - 3 1/2 - SATA - long life time (fiability :) ) - fast - 200 GB

Hey guys, I have 7 reallocated bad sectors and my Spin Retry Count is increasing, now at 128 Current? What Im confused about is, that I thought it should decrease, since the treshould is 30? Its a Toshiba 160GB Hard Drive.. Ive used different kinds of Programs and they all show Current 128 /...

Hello, I would like to know what exactly is the difference between DVD-R and DVD+R. Thank you for your help, John Goche

Hello. My client would like to know what's the best portable external USB disc (both CD and DVD) reader and writer/burner for PCs (mainly netbooks) from http://cdw.com/. Thank you in advance. :) -- "We are anthill men upon an anthill world." --Ray Bradbury /\___/\

I have an ISO image of a DVD that keeps failing to burn. I first tried it on my desktop, which has two burners on it. I tried to burn it on both burners, and it failed on both. In one burner it got through the burn, but failed verification, while in the other burner it failed even before it...

Greetings, is there a way to add a disk to a RAID 5 array (4x 500GB) in order to expand capacity? The only option I can manage to find in Adaptec's BIOS is adding a hot spare, but no sign of expanding array. I use Debian Lenny - is there any CLI tool for Adaptec SATA RAID management? TIA!

I am thinking of using the Mozy paid backup service as my primary backup system. I have some concerns. What country are the Mozy servers located in? How well are the privacy right of individuals protected in that country? Can Mozy employees look at my files? Would it be safe for me to backup...

I've been playing around a little with standby for disks on a Linux system - mostly it works well, with disks waking up automatically as needed. If I try a smartctl test ("smartctl -t short /dev/sda") on a standby drive, however, it fails - it will wake up the drive, but smartctl gives up...

Hi A friend who writes for a living is looking for a utility which can password protect folders. Ive done a Google search and found a number of techy tricks which are a just a step too far for her in terms of ease of use. I tried the trick of sending to a compressed (zip) file but all too...

Hi, I need to understand what's wrong in a SCSI storage enclosure like this: http://www.dmi-inc.com/pdf/raidtec/flexarray_hi12.pdf It was mounted on a Linux system, and suddenly appeared to have bad filesystem errors. I couldn't work around the problem in any way through software. I'd like to...

I have two WD SATA drives set up as a RAID 1 under Vista64 Ultimate. If I want to run WD's diagnostic, do I have to disable the RAID in the bios? The Vista utility does not see the drives individually. If I download the boot disc version - will I still have to disable the RAID in the bios to get...

I am using an older and very stable Linksys WRT54G router and have DHCP enabled for the clients. One of my router's current DHCP clients is a video server which gets a fresh IP address occasionally when the router or video server is re-booted. This creates a problem, since the 8 video clients...

Looking at Table 1 on page 10 of the following document, I see that the 1.5TB and 2.0TB drives both have 4 platters and 8 heads, and identical data densities. Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/desktop/Barracuda%20LP/100564361b.pdf In...

I just got an external drive case (Rosewill, FYI) which includes an internal to eSATA bracket. Now on one of my systems, there is no SATA support on the motherboard, so I got an Adaptec SATA controller, which works great. If I connect the cable from this internal to eSATA bracket to a spare port...

I bought a used Maxtor 300GB PATA drive. Plugged it in, read out the smart data, all "OK"...so I bought it. Got it home and tried to format it. No-go. Aborted. Ran powermax on it. It finds and corrects errors, but it seems to have an endless supply of errors to be fixed one at a time. Gives...

(Crossposted, please feel free to trim group) Are the following Solid-State Disk drive tweaks for Windows XP legitimate and significant? Anything else? Disable AHCI in both Windows and in the BIOS. Make sure write caching for the SSD is enabled. Change the Windows registry.

Hi all, I have an HP dv700t laptop running 64-bit Vista Home Premium whose HD started failing (the SMART system warned of an imminent HD failure.) It was still under warranty so I shipped it back to HP. Before doing so, I did a full backup to an external Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1.5TB drive....