Before  'oogling through the layers of info out there could any
regulars here describe relevant key words.
Like hidden sectors, file system details and alternate data streams.
Or is there a simpler explanation re how this is done

In my continuing scramble to get surviving files off my crashed and
(to Windows) inaccessible HD, I've found the website of the program
Spinrite.
It's said to support NTFS, it does low-level search, but I'm unsure if

I've had some weird behavior on my WinXP Pro system since adding two
firewire drives about a year ago (Plextor PX-504UF CD/DVD burner) and a
LaCie D2 120Gig hard drive.  It takes 3 restarts any time  I need to
restart the computer before the external drives + the LAN is ...

By mistake, I deleted some files on my NTFS drive. After I noticed the
mishap, I didn't use the drive anymore for write access. Since the files
were too big for the recycle bin, they were not recoverable by "normal"
means.

I have a 50GB HD which I use for secondary storage, is now about 3
years old, and it seems to have had a major crash. I can't access it
(windows reports "cyclic redundancy check error) & CHKDSK finds tons of
bad sectors then crashes with an "undefined error".

Hello. I've got a WD 250GB External USB/firewire hard drive that I bought
just over a year ago (June 2004). It's worked fine up until today.
I was watching a film, stored on the drive, through a remote computer on the
local network and the film kept stopping. So I went into the ...

Starting point was a working 120GB harddisc as MAster jumpered with partition C: + D:.
Then I connected another, new 120GB harddisc to the same IDE cable.
This new harddisc (MAxtor) was jumpered in some times as Slave resp. as Cable Select.
However this harddisc is not visible as a ...

Does anyone know how I can edit the HTTP pages that the web interfac
displays?
I bought this unit to "toy" with and would like to try and do som
customizations to it. I would certainly appreciate the help and woul

I've successfully used True Image 8 (trial) to create an image of my
primary active parition.  I was surprised that it created the image in
the background while I was still multi-taking from the desktop.  (Older
imagers I have used required a reboot to create the image prior to

I recently bought a 2 Channel IDE RAID card  (QTECH 340R which uses an
Sil0680 chip) so that I could fit an extra HDD to my system.
Just wondered if its OK to run 2 IDE devices as Master/Slave on each channel
of the RAID?

I have a problem with my IBM travelstar (laptop HDD).  I want t
connect this to my pc, I have been out and brought a USB interfac
where you can supposidly connect a 2.5" device into it and then conec
to the PC via USB.

I was advised by a computer tech (who upgraded my system) to use a 1 GB
paging file on each of my two HDs. Is this optimal for distributing
page files? (My system is currently stable.)
SG

I tested a new USB external hard drive with Partition Magic's
Partition Info tool, and it reported that "Error #108.  Partition
didn't end on cylinder boundary ucEndHead expected to be 254, not
239".  What's this mean?  And should I return the drive.  Its is a

I'm having terrible problems trying to make a bootable backup of my
Hard Drive.
I've given up the ghost with Ghost (terrible piece of software) and am
now trying my luck with Acronis TI's trial version. Problem being with

We have two Iomega P800 NAS servers running cut down edition of Windows
2000 server. Both have dual 2.4GHz and 1GB RAM each.
Server A is online and has 1TB capacity. Approx. 300GB of the storage
is currently occupied. This server is used to store customer files. We