"Barry OGrady" <god_fre_jones@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:qfeggv0i6pb94ltsst0fop3qdmpvkq73o9@4ax.com... Sigh! I said I didn't want to get into it deeply (partly cos I'm out of my depth!), so...

I have a Sony DRX 500ULX which can create multiple format DVD disc (DVD+/-R, DVD+/RW). I just created a DVD+RW data disc. But it cannot be read by a DVD drive on another computer and can only be...

I bought Partition Magic 7.0 a year or so ago, and set up 2 partitions on each of my two identical HDs. C: 11.7 GB 0.6 free (Main XP Home System) D: 44.1 GB 28.4 free (Data) E: 11.7 GB 4.6 free...

I came across this app that tells me storage situations and watches for potential problems. Tells me when file are created/deleted, changes in file/folder counts. Alerts when file starts/stops...

Oops. Meant RAID0. "Metaphoid" <metaphoid@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:beis75$5em95$1@ID-151933.news.dfncis.de...

Hello again. While I await my new (reconditioned) drive from Maxtor I'd like to know how most of you partition and format new drives for a Windows system. 1) Use Maxtor MaxBlast 3 software or similar...

FACT : Norton Ghost 7.5 does not support ghosting hardware or software RAID configs. FACT : In some cases it may work, but never with software RAID Also couldn't find anyone on google that had...

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:11:56 GMT, "TomG" <tgeery-nospam-@cox.net> wrote: BTW:- Booting from Patrtition Magic 8.0 Rescue Disks will quickly confirm whether your BIOS (or MB hardware !) will support

My Windows 2000 pro installation has gone bad so I am booting from a Win98 boot disk into dos. I can see my C drive, but not my other rather large (100 gig) hard drive (E:). I am thinking that my...

I have some obscurely badged drives that are clearly relabels are of brand name models. I have some by somebody called 'magnetic data' (at least one of which is a rebadged WD Caviar (I think,...

Hi all I recently bought a WD Raptor 36Gb 10000RPM SATA drive which role is to function as OS drive in my system. I have done a fresh install of Windows XP SP1 on the drive which works super. The...

Humble Servant <yourhumbleservant@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4pQOa.1243$uX6.100357@news.uswest.net... Someone who really is a humble servant should grovel MUCH more enthusiastically than...

Occasionally I have a question re a particular hdd and DR. Thereafter I will email tech support for the hdd manufacture. I have had very detailed and supportive response at one end of the spectrum -...

Don't ask how cos I'm not really sure, but something has clearly happened to the MBR on my IBM deskstar 120GXP (61gigs official, about 57 in reality). I had three partitions: One NTFS partition...

I'm very clueless about this... I have an ASUS A7V motherboard, with an Athlon 1GHz. Have a couple of Western Digital ATA100 hard drives (40G + 80G). So, here's the puzzler: when connected to the...

lavasseur patrick <plevasseur64@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:beem60$urp$1@news-reader2.wanadoo.fr... Replace the drive. And backup what you will slash your wrists if you lose them NOW, to...

"Locutus" <Drone@Uni-MatrixOne.DeltaQuadrent> wrote in message news:bcihap$16n$1@bob.news.rcn.net... 'Perhaps' slipstream SP1 or now SP1a to your XP disc and format and install right from the outset...

Someone else in this newsgroup has urged me to remove the ATA-133 PCI card that came with my new hard drive, and just use the ATA-100 IDE interface on the motherboard. His argument is that the extra...

No. The Adaptec card writes the RAID info to a different part of the drive than the Promise & they are not in any way compatible. The easiest would be to first load the Adaptec drivers then do a...

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:38:05 +0100, Andy Lee <andy.lee@siemens.com> wrote: Check out the review at http://www.storagereview.com . Not particularly good, I'm afraid. Josh