A consideration for you: WinXP cannot create or format a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB. To use FAT32 for a partition of the size you are thinking, you will need to use a third-party...

I like NTFS. Among its qualities, it is a journaling file system, which fits your needs nicely. Do some googling on that and read up. --Dan "Sammy D" <samd@westinghouse.com> wrote in...

I am troubleshooting an ibm netvista pc 300pl, using onboard sound, the sound is enable in all locations that i can think of to check, however the system still has no available audio, cannot run win...

"Sammy D" <samd@westinghouse.com> wrote in message news:802a22e30a2a346f0ab6bf7520fd2530@news.bubbanews.com... NTFS. 8-) -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. http://windows.dasmirnov.net/ Windows XP...

I has a Fujitsu 6Gb HDsix years, never had a problem with it, no bad sectors or anything. Had my Western 80Gb 7 months and it's developing bad sectors. Am I just unlucky to get a bad HD? Was made...

If the data is important then I would recommend sending it to a good data recovery company. I work for Data Recovery Services but any of the top companies should be able to handle this one. You can...

My removeable zip drive is normally J:. Every so often out-of-the-blue it becomes D: in "My Computer" and that then causes problems because all the other drives move up a letter, Data that should go...

Of the many followups nobody really addressed the points made on the cited website, which said "There are 2 data compare errors because the wrong sectors were read from the device. Could this be a...

I just built a Win98SE system using some new but mostly old parts. The Maxtor 20GB drive is one of the old parts, and this is a drive that I had previously partitioned into 15 and 5 GB. I installed...

Happened upon this while looking up something else in the vendor's catalog. <http://www.pennstateind.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PKCDTOP&Category_Code=> -- --John Reply to...

I have now tried twice to create a bootable slipstreamed Win 2000 + SP4 CD. Both times the CD appeared fine but was not bootable. My PC tries to boot from the CD but complains that "NTLDR" is not...

I've got a second WD250 on a promise controller card on one win2k NTFS machine. I'm building a new computer and want to move this drive over. I'm booting off another drive and have loaded the same...

A friend's computer had a hardware crash; she can't get it to past the POST, so she bought another computer. Assuming the old hard drive is still good, what's the recommended way to get the data off...

Hi, I'm having slight problems while migrating from my old drive to my new RAID0 array. I have simply copied all of the files to the new drive, including some programs. While the drive letters...

Good Evening/Morning, I just bought a Dell laptop that has only a 30GB HD. Is there any way to connect my desktop 80GB HD to my laptop? I know that is an adapter to hook up a laptop HD to a...

I need some help on how I can check/set the block mode (fixed or variable) on an IBM 3582 LTO2 fibre channel tape library. The unit is posting errors mentioning that the drive is set to fixed mode...

Does anyone know if it is possible to put an IDE hard drive into an SATA removable drive rack using one of those IDE to SATA converter plugs? Is there enough room in the rack to do this? Can it...

I have an old Pentium 133Mhz, whose hard disk has died. I want to put a new drive in there, but before I buy one, would like to know if there is any size limit, or otherwise, in putting a new drive...

Can anyone help? My computer wouldn't boot up one day and I had to reformat, load everything again and it was fine. I did a scan for viruses and found nothing. Then a couple of weeks later it has...

I'm looking at getting an external USB 2.0 hard drive case for my ATA 80 GB hard drive. Anyone have any recommendations ? I was looking at Plumax, but someone recommended Bytecc ?