Is a defective sector securely erased before it is remapped by the hdd
OS? Or, to pinpoint it: can a hdd, which is "securely" erased by a
erasing tool like blancco, kroll ontrack dataeraser etc. still contain
sensitive data in the remapped sectors?

Pentium III 450  Windows 98
I have an Onstream 30G D130 (internal IDE) tape drive that suddenly has
started ejecting ADR cartages after years of reliable service.
I insert a cartage and hear the usual whirring sound.  After a while the

I am currently trying to read data from a corrupted FAT32 partition
and am looking from some technical advice. The logical drive concerned
contained several 100 mp3 files, for which I have the audio CDs and
separate backup, but also a few dozen video mpg's which I would like

This is an account of a disk problem and recovery. It includes
preliminary history, failure symptoms, recovery actions and results,
and questions.
The "bad" disk is an 80GB Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST380021A,

I am running XP SP2 using Ghost 9.0. I have created an Image of my C:
drive and copied it to an F: drive successfully using Ghost 9. Both HD
are NTFS.
However when I boot off the CD and try to restore the image from F: to

I was surprised when I see that Ghost 2003 from boot disks will not
save to my external 40gb USB hard drive which came formatted as a
single FAT32 partition.
Apparently, the Guest.exe that Ghost uses will only see FAT partitions.

How can I remove/combine two bogus partitions put on a new "out of the
box" Maxtor HDD by by Norton Ghost 9.0 in error.
After many attempts, I have given up on a HDD restore effort using
Ghost 9 to restore a backup image (generated by Ghost). All I can get

Hey all,
Have much hardware these days and I don't know what the best solution
is.  What I have below is:
- 40 gig 7200 rpm HD that runs the OS and also has some data i might

Is there a newsgroup for the discussion of backup software other
than this one?  Thank you in advance for all replies.

Hi.  I'm running XP SP1 on a Dell Dimmension 8400.  I purchased the PC
with a Seagate 160GB SATA harddrive.  That works fine.  Recently, I
purchased and installed a second (non boot) drive.  That one is a
Maxtor SATA 250GB drive.

Greets all..
I have a new 40 gb ipod connected to an xp machine through a usb2.0 - I
plug the ipod in and the new hardware wizard comes up - found new
device apple ipod etc - then get message that hardware cannot be

Greetings Group,
        I have 4 HD's (40,8,10,10) & at the moment I am only
using 2 because I'm not quite sure how to set up the 4 with my RAID
board.

I currently have Windows XP installed on a SCSI disk using an Adaptec 39160
card. XP (and application software) is installed in a FAT partition.
I'm planning on removing the SCSI disks and card from the system, and installing
a 3ware hardware RAID controller (model #8006-2LP or ...

I am trying to figure out a way of finding wwpn and wwnn on a Compaq
KGPSA-BC HBA hooked on a Tru64 (V5.1) box.
It seems ( unlike Emulex,JNI and QLogic )  Compaq does not support the
SNIA library, its a shame given the fact that Compaq has been acquired

This will be the final post on my problem of video editing with my
laptop!  Since it's running a Pentium M, what's the largest HD
reasonable for this machine?
Thanks.