Hi, I have a problem with my HDD (Western Digital 80 GB PATA), I had a
blue screen, and when I rebooted the disk was recognized with random
characters instead of the disk model (for example "Primary master:
SBCY%JU$IKDM987KDHJMRF" instead of WD800...) and of course it didn't

Its going to be my Media drive for my Mdeia PC. Going to record
movies, shows ect to it. And store my Divx movies and Mp3s on for
playback purposes.
One thing it must be quiet. Speed is not realy a concideration as must

I wish to have a dual boot system on my computer. I currently have XP as
Drive C and want to have 98 on Drive D. My drive D is 120Gb but want to have
only 20 or so Gb for Win 98, therefore leaving around 100 or so for storage.
I have tried using the cmd to partition the drive ...

I want to warn you about some behaviour of Norton Ghost and XP:
I have got several harddisks for backups that I insert into my computer
using a IDE rack whenever I need them.
When I look into Disk Management the absent backup harddisks are shown

My CD-ROM drive bay is on top of the HD one. I thought the connection
at the end has to be the master and other one in the middle being the
slave. So I set it up as CD being the master, and HD as the slave. My
PC does not recognize any dirve???

I just bought a new Windows XP Professional computer from Dell, with a
500 GB, 7200rpm, SATA II hard drive.  To my dismay, I discovered upon
opening it that it only has one IDE connector (which is filled by two
CD-ROM/DVD drives), along with several SATA connectors.  I want to be

I'm considering buy NAS Storage.
Two bender submitted NetApp FAS940C, EMC NS702G.
I will use 2TB SAN and 4TB NAS Storage.
SAN Storage will attach Oracle DBMS and NAS Storage will attach Windows

We have two identical laptops with 60GB hard drives. We need to have
an efficient way of having them 'synched' upon demand. I have used
Ranish partition manager to copy a hard drive to an identical one.
Does anyone know offhand how long it might take to do a hard drive copy

Wondering of any magnetic interference from the following :-
Drive thats horizontal but not really in the air flow of the front case fan
theres only 1 HD gap below the HD in question so i'm thinking of lying
a fan falt down blowing onto the chip side as theose chips can get well ...

I'm trying to install PowerPath package on a SLES9.0 SP1 32Bits
machine. According EMCpowerlink website, I must use latest version of
PowerPath which is:
EMCpower.LINUX-4.4.0-343.sles.i386

Hello there, I usually buy a new PC every 3 years for gaming and when I
do I try to buy everything top of the line so that it affords me the
most ammount of time before it's dated.
The one I bought 3 years ago had a nice Viewsonic Professional Series

can anyone recommend a simple bench marking program so that I can
compare the performance of my two drive?
Thanks

I am using a True Image rescue disk to restore an image from a USB
external drive. However, the USB drive is not recognized when I boot
to the rescue disk instead of to Win XP.
How can I restore from the USB drive?

I've been looking for information about USB 2.0 performance using
external 5400 rpm 2-1/2" drives versus 4200.  I'm inclinded to believe
that there would be little difference in performance for backing up
large images. Has anyone seen any info or had experience with this?

I have a HD of 60 gb splitted  in two FAT32 partitions (HD1 primary
28.7Gb and HD2 logical 29.7Gb ). The HD is used as slave, and it is not
the bootable HD in my PC.
Disaster striked when, in a "normal" starting up, without apparent