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Re: Mounting MO drives on Linux
Posted on July 25th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Previously Ralph Alvy <ralvy@compuserve.com> wrote: Have you partitioned the MODs before? They do not come partitioned or with a filesystem, just like HDDs. fdisk might need the -b 2048 -option...

Windows XP/RAID 0 Solution
Posted on July 24th, 2003 | 4 Comments

I posted a question regarding RAID 0 and a Windows XP solution. I would follow the installation procedure "by the book" and install the correct drivers at the correct time, but setup would create the...

Re: Mounting MO drives on Linux
Posted on July 24th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Ralph Alvy <ralvy@compuserve.com> wrote: Did you try just /dev/sda, if it's not partitioned?

Re: CD-R/RW driver question.
Posted on July 24th, 2003 | 1 Comments

"Richard Brooks" <richardbrooks@kdbanglia.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in news:bff61j$8au$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk: Sounds like it's working fine, what makes you think it isn't?

Best way to backup data onto CDRW's
Posted on July 24th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hey all... I need to backup 6gigs of data onto CDRW's. What would be the best way to accomplish this? I was thinking I could use winrar and split them up into 650MB parts and make 1 par file CD...

ABOUT PqRP - The PqRP de- mystified - PqRP FAQ - RFC
Posted on July 24th, 2003 | 0 Comments

PowerQuest PqRP FAQ - July 24 2003 - Joep ** About PqRP: ** * The problem: As SOON as PartitionMagic (from now on: PM) starts it's operation on a partition it will 'edit' the partition table and...

Ping J. Clarke
Posted on July 23rd, 2003 | 0 Comments

Just thought I let you know I think you are on the right track with the Raid 5 "new hardware" issue,if you recall.For example,I just ghosted and installed replacement drives from Maxtor on a single...

Adding O/S to drive that already has data on it??
Posted on July 23rd, 2003 | 1 Comments

I have a 80GB drive that is presently a slave on an XP machine (FAT32). I would like to make this drive the master and then install Windows 2000 Pro. The drive has 6 partitions including the first...

Quantum Fireball TM not showing up
Posted on July 23rd, 2003 | 0 Comments

I recently acquired a Quantum Fireball TM 2.1G hard drive as part of an older Dell I bought for other parts. I suspect the hard drive is fried. However, I do not know how to determine that. The...

Kt-400 on-board RAID vs Promise TX2000
Posted on July 23rd, 2003 | 2 Comments

I plan on setting up two WD1800JB drives in RAID 1 configuration. I have a Soyo Kt-400 Ultra board and looking for opinions as to using the on-board RAID controller or investing in a Promise TX2000...

180G IBM hard disk
Posted on July 23rd, 2003 | 7 Comments

Hi, I have a 180G IBM harddisk. The mother board recognises as a 180G hard disk but the windows only recognise as 130G. Is there a reason for that and how would i over come that. Thanx in...

best usb2 enclosure?
Posted on July 23rd, 2003 | 0 Comments

there are quite a few USB2 enclosures on the market, I'd like to get one that's small, light and fast transfer rate. I have a few IDE harddrives and a cd burner I want to use. Can someone recommend a...

"Dead" hard drive.
Posted on July 23rd, 2003 | 1 Comments

This PC is PII/350/448/WinME. There are two HDs. Drive D is 40 Mb and uses Disk Manager; it is now dead. One day recently I came in and found the blue screen (Of Death) with a message that Drive D...

Re: Convert a bootable CD to a bootable floppy
Posted on July 22nd, 2003 | 0 Comments

ILP <ilp@ilp.fr.st> wrote in news:bfjod7$4lk$1@news-reader3.wanadoo.fr: Bart's Boot Extractor: http://www.nu2.nu/bbie/ Adam

Re: MOVING instead of COPYING under XP
Posted on July 22nd, 2003 | 3 Comments

In article <93BCBD91988EE3A75@130.133.1.4>, MarkM_csiphsTAKE_THIS_OUT@yahoo.co.uk says... As others mentioned, right-click and choose the option. Otherwise, holding CTRL while dragging will force a...

Re: Fujistu HD failure. How to retrieve data
Posted on July 22nd, 2003 | 1 Comments

Getting the drive replaced by Fujitsu and retrieving the data are two different things. As for warranty, Fujitsu drives from the time frame you mention usually had a 3 year...

Damaged Maxtor HDD - continued
Posted on July 22nd, 2003 | 15 Comments

Hello, as I wrote a few days ago, my 17 months old Maxtor D540X-4K 60GB suddenly refused to work - simply stopped and even is not recognized by BIOS. I have bought an identical HDD (with some bad...

error #109 with PM8.0 . What can I do?
Posted on July 22nd, 2003 | 1 Comments

G'day people I use Win 98 and recently was given a 40M USB hard drive which had been formatted with Win 2000 in NTFS format. I used Partition Magic 8.0 to change it to a Fat 32 format and happily...

Re: Are we the fools: DVD
Posted on July 22nd, 2003 | 8 Comments

On 20 Jul 2003 17:41:44 -0700 rjw01@yahoo.com (Ron) wrote: Invent a DVD recorder that will produce disks compatible with all commercial DVD players and the world will beat a path to your...

"Unsupported property value" error?
Posted on July 22nd, 2003 | 3 Comments

Just downloaded the v2i desktop demo to see if it was all it's cracked up to be and the thing won't install. Just gives me the error "Unsupported property value". Any thoughts on that one? Thanks...