If anyone has the slightest idea how to resolve, or even explain, this
problem, I'd be very grateful.  I have two hard drives, a 10gb Maxtor
primary with Win2k installed, and a 160 gb Western Digital slaved to
it.  I needed to wipe the maxtor and reinstall windows, so I copied

I use SpinRite 6 regularly to check a 40GB Seagate drive (ST340823A).
Until now there have been no problems, but yesterday's run produced
some errors that I don't understand.
On the "End-of-Run SMART System Status" page, in the top half of the

Can anybody recommend a product that can allow IDE hard drives to be
accessed over a IP network?  I know I could just use a PC with windows
installed, but I would REALLY like to find a device that is small and more
hardware based rather than a PC that relies on the OS being stable ...

I am having a very strange problem.
   I am unsure if it's hardware related or software related, but here it
goes:
   I have a Maxtor 4 D040H2 USB 2.0 Drive, and when I plug it in, as soon

A very happy EMC Clariion CX customer says that he will not consider
buying an IBM FAStT because in case of power failures, the CX
automatically downloads unwritten data from cache to disks using their
self power cells. Does anybody know about workarounds to have this

Recovered a Pentium 2 PC with 64MB and Maxtor drive. No idea of OS.
Doesn't boot up. Just beeping sound then a second continuous beep
starts as well.
Tried booting up with TUFFTEST disk to cut straight into DOS but same

I have a Western Digital 250GB internal EIDE disk which I'd like to add
to my system, but I've been told that Windows can only support drives
with a maximum of 137GB out of the box.  Is that correct, and if so how
can I get around this limit?

Hi, I'm hoping someone out there knows of a link to download the Think
Centre wallpapers for windows xp that IBM ships with there new
desktops.
I'd appreciate any help, thanks!

Last night my windows 2000 installation managed to get corrupted and
now will not boot. I suspect this may have been caused by the way that
I installed W2k + Serice Pack 4 on a 160 GB drive.
Background:

Dear group,
We are in the process of migrating our SAN platform to EMC Clarion
platform.
Currently we have Veritas Volume Manager installed, but since our data

I'm trying to help a friend with a HD problem.
He has a server running Advanced Server 2000.
Somewhere along the line the boot sector of the HD became screwed up.
So now the server must be booted with a floppy.

I have a few questions but I'm not sure if this is the right place to
ask.  If it's not, please point me in the right direction.
First, is it okay to run a drive's power cable parallel to its IDE
ribbon?  I know that sometimes in electronics that's not the best idea

I've got a spare drive formatted with NTFS.
How do I find out the cluster size ?

I have a drive that has been diagnosed as having a corrupted/missing MBR
(master boot record).
This drive was being used for about 3 months (it is a laptop drive, by the
way) without problems.  Then all of a sudden it failed to be recognized.

Gives the Raptor 10,000 Rpm drive a run for its money, beats it in
most areas but a a few :)
And no kitty in it as yet :)