I know a bad mobo can corrupt data... but can it do anything to
physically damage a hard drive? Or, from the other side of the
question - if I find bad sectors on a HD, does that mean the HD went
bad on it's own or could the mobo have caused it ?

Here are a few in-context snippets from a recent report
"Hard disk test 'surprises' Google"
Monday, 19 February 2007, 15:28 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6376021.stm

For months now I've been unable to get this drive to defrag
thoroughly.  At first just a few files wouldn't,  Since then more and
more area are left.  Here is the result from last night.  
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6641/nonameeo5.gif

I recently had a hard drive (18 gb) go bad and being that the system
had a maintenance contract,  the old hard drive was replaced by a new
drive.  After the new drive was installed, the old drive was sent
back.

Also gives some insights what is done in data recovery and names some
cost figures. Not too much technical details, but still worth a read.
Special focus is on RAID recovery.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/02/14/raid_recovery/index.html

Hi:   My 400GB Seagate 7200.9 SATA drive lost the partition info (just
1 partition with NTFS),  all the files are there, but I can not access
or restore it.   I read all the info I can find on findpart and still
stuck.

I have a PC (an eMachine) with a HD which has the BIOS on it.
I'm going to replace the HD, so how do I put the BIOS  on the new HD?
thanks in advance
billy bob

I have a Primary 60 Gbte PATA drive on which XP Pro SP2 boots. There
is also a second 200 Gbte SATA drive which is used for some Apps and
also data.
I want to swop the 60 Gbte Primary PATA drive for a new 500 Gbte SATA

Every time a DOS app runs under Win2k, Windows pauses it until all the
sleeping drives spin up.  Is there a way to prevent the DOS boxes from
enumerating the drives?

Just bought a new DVD writer (got a good price).  Manual says you need
an 80 wire cable for optimal performance.  At my local computer store,
which is pretty big (but the clerks are clueless), all they had were
regular 40 wire IDE cables.  Clerks couldn't help me.

I have a boot system created in 34 GB. hard disk and i syspreped it to
install in other systems with differen hard disk sizes. The data
occupy about 6 GB.
One of this system has 17 GB. hard disks and i am having problems. The

What are the popular NAS devices configurations out there.
Case 1: NetApp on tier 1 and retired netapp on tier2.
Case 2: NetApp on tier1 and some sort of block level storage like EMC
on tier2

How do ILM products like kazeon that migrate files to alternate
storage deal with Windows Explorer that do directory listings and try
to open each and every file to read the data (for thumbnails)?
Will this cause Kazeon to restore the files from alternate storage

LOOKING FOR:
Seagate SCSI:
73GB and up drives.  1" high low profile. Ultra320 and SAS
Seagate Fibre Channel:

Is there a possibility when a Hacker takes control of the SAN manager,
that he reassigns LUN's of running systems, or that he disconnects
LUN's?
We want to install a DS4700 SAN system for some of our windows based