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CDROM-Jukebox Software
Posted on July 31st, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi there! Does anybody still run Microtest DiscView Pro (Netware) with a Pioneer DRM-5004X C-Jukebox? I'm running it with a NSM Mercury40 and now got a Pioneer and there is no possibility to get...

More life from hard disk with bad sectors
Posted on July 30th, 2004 | 35 Comments

Hi All One of my hard disks continued to develop bad sectors and every time I was using format to mark the bad sectors. Suddenly I got an idea of not only marking the bad sector but also keeping the...

Backup >100 GB?
Posted on July 30th, 2004 | 6 Comments

Hi! I am in need of doing regular backup of a large data storage. Currently I use a 6x24 DAT autoloader - but breaking the 70 GB barrier I would have to swap magazines during the process which I'd...

Re: ANOTHER Hitachi 180GXP GOES BAD!!!
Posted on July 30th, 2004 | 0 Comments

In article <5236d5f9aa89ff40081be222970809b4@dizum.com>, nobody@dizum.com says... (bites the troll) 1) Run a S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring tool and find out what temps you're running the drives...

Another Ghost 2003 question - Simple
Posted on July 30th, 2004 | 4 Comments

I'm brand new to Ghost 2003 and after a successful clone on my brothers computer (bigger hard drive) I thought it would make a good backup for my new Win2K machine. What I want to do sounds simple...

Re: ANOTHER Hitachi 180GXP GOES BAD!!!
Posted on July 30th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Never had a problem with an IBM drive, all worked and still working fine, TROOOOOOOOOOOOL. SEGATE are EVIL, they worship satan to get their reliability on their drives :) On Fri, 30 Jul 2004...

2 operating systems, device drivers
Posted on July 29th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Hi, I have a PC with Windows XP and I'm going to add a 2nd HD to my PC and install fedora on it (dual-boot). My question is: will the 2 operating systems use the same device drivers to interact with...

* Wanted: Storage Professional Services Consultant *
Posted on July 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Immediate Opening – Storage Professional Services Consultant Our client is a Fortune 10 company, and provides customers the ability to out-task or completely out-source IT infrastructure programs...

Hard disk suddenly not recognized by BIOS anymore
Posted on July 29th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Suddenly one of the two large hard drives connected to a Promise Ultra100 PCI card is no longer recognized, and not detected in the BIOS. Western Digital 180gb (not detected) and WD 250gb...

Anyone use Acronis Drive Image 7.0?
Posted on July 29th, 2004 | 53 Comments

http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/ I need to do an image back up a machine. This looks like a better solution than Ghost. Acronis allows you to do scheduled back ups which is also a plus. ...

Need Data Recovery from HD
Posted on July 29th, 2004 | 32 Comments

With all you have done to the 80 gig drive, data recovery is now a "moot point". You have already destroyed much of what you want to recover by using the drive and performing a recovery on the...

Hard drive 101 upgrade questions
Posted on July 29th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I have a four-year-old Dell Dimension PC with a 20 gig hard drive. Seemed great when we bought it, but especially with my digital photo libraries, it just seems like I'm always archiving files to CD...

Data Recovery from Seagate HDD
Posted on July 29th, 2004 | 2 Comments

HI, I have a 40 GB seagate hdd. few days back while It fell from my hands and got on the floor with one of its corners ( where we put the power cord ). Now the bios does not detect it. I have some of...

RAID 1 newbie
Posted on July 29th, 2004 | 6 Comments

Hi, I have a 120GB IBM Deskstar and after being concerned that it might bite the dust in the future (heard some dodgy stories about deathstars) I want to set up a RAID 1 array. I bought a Seagate...

Hardware compression pb
Posted on July 29th, 2004 | 6 Comments

Hi to all ! I got a problem with "Backup Exec"... Everything works fine except that the backups work at les than 20 MB/Min... Then the duration is about 30 hours for a 20 GB Backup. When I go in...

LBA, but still max 1024 Cyl.
Posted on July 29th, 2004 | 1 Comments

The problem: HD is 20 GB Seagate ST 320423A in a machine with Award BIOS dated 1999 The disk has been working correctly, and could be (and was, at that time) partitioned with PM6 The partitioning...

ata -> sata converter
Posted on July 28th, 2004 | 1 Comments

If your using a converter.. and your Sata system supports raid 0,1 then say you 2 drives using these converters, will they work with the raid setup?

What's lost, Raid 0 array or partition?
Posted on July 28th, 2004 | 1 Comments

My motherboard is ABIT KT7A Raid, on which I built a raid 0 with two identical hard disks (WD 2X60G, 7200prm). Now my problem is, in the Highpoint BIOS, I still can see the array of raid 0, but the...

CDRW, DVD and Nero
Posted on July 28th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Someoen please help advice: I have a CenDyne CDRW 52X???, bundle with Nero 5.5.8.2 software. Later I bought another CenDyne CDRW 48X16X48 bundle with 5.5.9.13 Nero software. CenDyne 52X??? Kaput...

what hard drive to buy?
Posted on July 28th, 2004 | 2 Comments

I've been looking at the Maxtor 6E040L0 40GB 2 MB cache and 6Y080P0 80GB 8 MB cache. I don't really need 80GB. 40GB is actually more than enough. Based on a large HD vs. a small HD, are there...