Does anyone have an idea of, or references for,
the coercivity of current HD platters?
I'm looking at degaussers for a charity
refurbishing/recyling project, and I've found a

I have lost 5 hard drives in the past couple months from various
computers. All computers have battery pack surge protector units
supplying their power.
The surge protectors are right next to the computers, is it possible

Will my external drive (USB 2 or 1) work in Europe?
If Yes, will the 220 Voltage affect its operation?
Thanks!
maria

I've got an old Dell 5000e that I'm trying to squeeze another year of
life out of.  I replaced the old 4200 rpm HD with a Seagate Momentus
40G 5400 rpm a year ago, which failed and was replace with a Toshiba
40G 5400 rpm drive a few months back, which then failed and was

Somebody gave me their old laptop (IBM ThinkPad T22) which wasn't booting.
I tried reformatting the hard disk (after booting from a Windows XP Pro CD),
and although it appeared to be reformatting, at the end of the process
(which took almost 8 hours!) it came back saying it was ...

Has anybody here managed to boot and run a Windows machine with a flash
drive _instead of_ a hard disk?  What's needed?

How does the -E filename work with cpio?  By example, I had an archive
with about 5500 files in it of which I only needed three hundred.  I am
thinking that the command:
cpio -iv -E filename < /dev/st0

While I'm on a vacation, I'd like to be able to store photos on a
portable drive and I was thinking of buying the PD70X:
http://www.eastgear.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=444
However, I'll probably be buying a version that doesn't include a 2.5''

I recently managed to scrape enough pennies to rebuild my lightning-bit
workstation. Motherboard ECS KM400-M2 (rev 3.0) HD wd1600JB, 160gb.
I created a small NTFS partition (8gb) for Win2k, and a few more
30gb FAT32 partitions to share with FreeBSD and Linux, which also

I was wondering if there is any software out there that will allow me
to boot multiple things off of one usb flash drive.  Ex.  I am wanting
to but "Damn Small Linux", "Emergency Boot CD", an anti-virus scanner
and "Ultimate boot CD" all on one 1gb flash drive.  I need a program

I have a HP Netvista model 6276 27G which suddenly did not start up.
Checked the switch but not faulty, also cabling from this switch to
motherboard is okay. Scouted around for fuses but none found, also
not in the HIPRO model HP-M14554F3 power unit.  I also used another

I have a SNAP Server which won't reboot properly.  Usually it will end
up in the Recovery Console.  This allows me to Upgrade/Repair my OS
(which I've tried but doesn't help) or blow away my data (which I'm
loath to do).

Greetings and thanks to all who replied.
Per the really helpful suggestions:
(see conclusions below)
1) Set BIOS to LBA instead of auto - it still shows

I just got one of the subject drives, and have been experimenting with a
utility that Samsung has called HUTIL.  Among the things that HUTIL can
do is to set the UDMA mode of the drive.
The drive originally came set as UDMA5, and it showed up that way both

We have a shark that serves three platforms (Windows, AIX, and mainframe).
Recently we migrated from VSE to z/OS and the performance of the Windows
on the shark has gone through the floor. I am collecting performance
stats on the shark. Is there anyone available I can send these ...