Anyone know what jumper setting to use to allow my existing SV4084H drive run as the master drive when I install a new second drive ? (there's no jumper setting diagram !)

Hi. I need some advice on how to make the best use of two external CD-R burners with an IBM laptop (T23). The intention is to be able to burn CD-R media in the least possible time, preferably while...

Hello people, I am about to buy an Asus PC-DL Deluxe motherboard, which has the Promise PDC 20378 SATA chip. I would like to know whether this chip supports Native Command Queueing. The motherboard...

Only if you stored it in a freezer at 30 below zero. Think about it, if it made a real difference you wouldn't be able to boot from the drive until it warmed UP! Sandee wrote:

As JAD said, it is not necessary to "warm up" the drive. The critical information, the actual track positions, have already been placed on the drive at the factory when they do a low level format of...

The meaning of 'defragment' is to place files contiguously on the drive. All defragmenters do this. There are many differences between FAT32 and NTFS, and you can read about them on the Internet....

I'm looking for a way of using standard parallel IDE/ATA drives as fully removable with Windows 2000/XP. Specs: 1) Windows must see the drive as removable 2) Hot-pluggable/warm swappable, that is...

"Lem" <lem@mail.com> wrote in message news:956B87AD2C47E91F3A2@130.133.1.4... large free areas, FAT32 finds the next free area regardless of size. Both fall apart when there is littel free...

In article <t8opk0l9so21i3j6nd9pfi4j6tuuiagdrk@4ax.com>, neon <**navajo@neonfeather.com**> wrote: In what way does it not work ? -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m

Sandee <sorry@no.email.please> wrote: Why don't you cross-post to a few more groups while you're at it, you idiot?

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I just installed XP it is working fine...I then added my slave drive that already has information on it. When i go into my computer the drive shows up with no storage numbers beside it...

"Sandee" <sorry@no.email.please> wrote in message news:9568A034CDC6074C1H4@130.133.1.4... Won't hurt. Won't accomplish anything either. I noted you said "new hard drive". Read above reply.

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Sandee wrote: No, there's absolutely no need for "pre-heating" a hard drive. And how would you make it spin, anyway? It'll have no contents, and noting to do. Never heard of one, and can't...

Howdy! "Sandee" <sorry@no.email.please> wrote in message news:9568A034CDC6074C1H4@130.133.1.4... Man, talk about a "blast from the past" B) We used to have to do this back in the 80's. But right...

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:44:56 +0100, Sandee <sorry@no.email.please> wrote: Yes.

"Waraf Nido" <noemail@invalid.com> wrote in message news:95688EA9E489D2D7E1@130.133.1.4... "Active" means the partition that BIOS uses to boot (in case more than one partition is bootable). That's...

"Waraf Nido" <noemail@invalid.com> wrote in message news:95688EA9E489D2D7E1@130.133.1.4... Page File: obvious Active: partition marked bootable System: current OS volume If more than one apply,...

"Sandee" <sorry@no.email.please> wrote in message news:9568A034CDC6074C1H4@130.133.1.4... Yes and if it was brought into the room from a significantly different temperature environment then let it...