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Your opinion about Samsung MP0402H hard-disk
Posted on April 7th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Hi, the Samsung MP0402H is a new hard-disk with very good characteristics (on the paper): 2,5" 9,5 mm / 40 GB / 5400 rpm / ATA-7 / 8 MB cache. I have the possibility to buy this HD at a very low...

Re: OK to disable sys restore point for other partitions?
Posted on April 7th, 2004 | 0 Comments

if all you are worrying about is the amount of disk space taken up by the restore point then simply reduce the amount of disk space allocated, this can be done on a disk/partition basis,. System...

Re: OK to disable sys restore point for other partitions?
Posted on April 7th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Sandy cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly: System restore does not restore data - so if that's all that is on the partitions then it won't restore anyway.

Re: How readable are 8x DVDs?
Posted on April 7th, 2004 | 2 Comments

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:46:16 +0100, Widow Twankey <Widow.Twankey@Aladdin.com> wrote: Only a problem if you are stupid enpugh to use the hacked formware which forces 4x media to burn at 8x. If using...

Re: OK to disable sys restore point for other partitions?
Posted on April 7th, 2004 | 0 Comments

control panel ---> system----> system restore (see tabs). Sandy <sorry@no.email.please> schreef in artikel <94C450C9B385674C1H4@64.62.191.203>...

low cost replacement hard drive for IBM Thinkpad i1400 laptop
Posted on April 6th, 2004 | 7 Comments

Hi Can anyone recommend a good UK supplier of used or refurbished laptop drives? My friends laptop drive is failing and I'm looking for a compatible replacement. I tried lime search and google but...

FAT16 decoding
Posted on April 6th, 2004 | 3 Comments

I'm messing with the image of a FAT16 volume in an attempt to retrieve data from a volume that was accidentally formatted (whoops!). The symptom of the formatting was that the FAT was zeroed out...

Whats the fasted sustanined transfer rate of a drive ?
Posted on April 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Just looking at buying a new drive and this is what i want, and seek time. The Hitachi drives seem to be the fastest drives from the reviews. Thanks.

OnStream DI-30 replaced byTapestor Travan; Echo?
Posted on April 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

For my manual only full and incremental backups with a complicated tape rotation routine my Echo version 3-15-51 suited very well. Has Echo expired along with OnStream or is it a separate company...

Re: How fast DVD burning by end of year?
Posted on April 6th, 2004 | 33 Comments

"Widow Twankey" <Widow.Twankey@Aladdin.com> wrote in message news:94C0755D4808FCE1@130.133.1.4... i read somewhere that for cds burning at 52x the disc is rotating at 10,800 rpm and that 16x is the...

Re: 440 chipset and hard drive limitation
Posted on April 6th, 2004 | 5 Comments

"Mark M" <MarkM_csiphsCANT_RECEIVE_MAIL@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:94C1A2DB512A63A75@130.133.1.4...

Re: Is SATA currently unreliable?
Posted on April 6th, 2004 | 24 Comments

"John Smith" <smitty@con.com> wrote in message news:94BF5FDE640D63A75@130.133.1.4... Yes, this is why it is so important to use SCSI when you are building a system that is going to be used for real...

NTFS drive files pointing to random and wrong part of disc. Possible to recover?
Posted on April 6th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I had a bunch of MP3's on a large hard disc (180GB) and after no obvious problem that came to my attention I have just found that when I play those favorites tracks some other, random, track is...

Promise SuperTrak 6000 constantly going "Critical"?
Posted on April 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments

I've got a Promise SuperTrak 6000 that will behave fine for about 2-3 boots, then it goes "critical" and wants to rebuild itself. I've got a mix of Seagate and WD 160G drives (6, the controller is...

Making 2nd HDD C: on Thinkpad R40
Posted on April 5th, 2004 | 3 Comments

I can set up the BIOS on my Thinkpad R40 to boot from my 2nd hard drive but the 2nd hard drive still is assigned D:. I cannot change this from the Administrative Services option in Windows XP. Is...

Faulty drive or XP problem?
Posted on April 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I'm currently in the middle of changing broadband providers so decided to do a fresh install of XP Home during the downtime. My machine is an XP2200 and has a 120gb Western Digital primary HDD and a...

Re: How fast DVD burning by end of year?
Posted on April 5th, 2004 | 10 Comments

8x dvd burners are worthless to me.My stand alone dvd players wont play dvd movies burned higher than 4X.......... "Widow Twankey" <Widow.Twankey@Aladdin.com> skrev i...

Re: Maxtor 120 GB HD clicks constantly on Intel CA810EAL system when all by itself
Posted on April 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Jim <Jim@post.replies.please> wrote in message news:40705f5e.37630559@news.west.cox.net... This bit is crucial, this shouldnt be seen with a hard drive fault unless its intermittently shorting one...

Copying a partition made my HD unusable...? Would like to salvage the drive
Posted on April 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I used a dos based utility to try to copy my c:\ partition to another same-sized partition, and now my HD seems to be unusable. My machine wouldn't boot, I can't fdisk (it locks up or errors out...

Re: 440 chipset and hard drive limitation
Posted on April 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Highpoint Rocket 133 dual-channel IDE controller: $30. Can be flashed for RAID. RAID 0 for thirty bucks, anyone? "Mark M" <MarkM_csiphsCANT_RECEIVE_MAIL@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in...