In July 2004 there was a thread on comp.arch.storage on this - see eg:
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&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DRaid%2B6%26start%3D30%26hl%3Dpl%26lr%3D%26group%3Dcomp.arch ...

I have found that my 40 GB IDE drive is quickly becoming full. I have
seen some deals on both IDE and serial ATA drives.  I know my
P4P800E-Deluxe motherboard will support serial ATA  but I read
somewhere that it is hard to set up with Windows XP.  Is this true?

My NTFS file system is damaged.  Oddly enough Partition Magic 8 and
Uneraser 2.01 are both reporting that the file system is now FAT 16.
PartitionInfo says that there are disk errors and geometry errors.
Uneraser does not seem to be able to recover any files on my

Can anyone recommend a good online tutorial covering hard drive
partitioning, boot process, modification of boot tables? Something
that will teach me what all these boot/partition software programs
do and how to make various hard drives compatible in different

Hi - newbie type question alert!  I've googled but no joy...  I have
inherited a netbackup solution and am trying to come to grips with
it... it is running netbackup datacentre 4.5 on a Sun V480 running
Solaris 8.  There are 4 media servers and policies exist for vault runs

I can see that netbackup volume pools are for pooling of tapes based on
a requirement (unix backups, wintel backups, sybase backups etc etc
etc), and I can see that volume pools are allegedly for geographical
grouping.

Just got back from CompUSA with new external (USB) hard drive.
Plugged it into my PC (WinXP) and new hardware was recognized.
So I went into MY COMPUTER and found C-drive and D-cd, and NOTHING
ELSE. I want to do a backup...but TO WHERE?

I hope someone can tell me how to resolve this, I have a IDE to USB 2
adapter for HDD or Zip or any other IDE drive. The problem is the computer
sees the drive but doesn't assign a drive letter. The drive ( have tried a
hdd and zip ) shows up in device manager as USB drive but ...

I'm running Windows XP Pro (SP2) and been regularly using Powerquest DI8 for
backing up my data without problems.
That is until a few days ago, when I installed several Windows (recommended
critical) updates .

I installed a pair of Samsung P120Ss to replace my WD800JBs. I used DI 2002
to clone my boot drive, and it booted fine.
The problem is that booting now takes much longer. The time from the start
of the OS boot to the appearance of the last tray icon, has increased from a

   I have a system with multiple drives, including a WD-2500JD drive on a
Promise TX-2 SATA card.  I presently boot of a WD-1200JB drive on my Asus
A-7V133 motherboard EIDE primary channel.  I got the SATA drive with the
idea of using it as the boot drive in the next motherboard ...

How do you configure a Qlogic 2200F to send the start unit command to
attached hard drives?   We are exposing a SCSI disk to the QLogic through a
fibre channel bridge, and the drive is not starting up after insertion.
The Windows 2000 host computer needs to boot this disk, so I need ...

I have a 80GB Seagate hard disk (ST380011A), that I was using with a
motherboard for long. it has two partitions: 8GB and the rest. The 8GB
has OS
I got a new Abit IS-10 mobo, with AwardBIOS (v6.0). It does recognize

I have no floppy drive, which is normally the vehicle for Drive Image 5.0x
rescue diskettes (in case C:/ or XP dies).
Is there a way to invoke the DOS RESTORE windows by using the D.I.
bootable CD?

I've seen a fanless one with metal mesh sides and stupid blue cathode glow
tube, but I'm hoping to find a basic plastic one.  So far, all are fan
types.  Anybody know if what I'm looking for exists?
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