Tried two cards with this external USB 2.0/eSATA hard disk drive -
both from:
www.misco.co.uk
1. Lacie 2x port PCI 150 card costing about 20 UKP

So I'm having some problems with a RAID controller.  I determined it is
basically a crapped out motherboard that is out of warranty.
So I have an Intel board on order.
While I'm waiting for the stuff to come on I figured I would run a

What utility can I use to verify proper operation of a new computer in the AHCI
mode? The drive is a Seagate SATA-II (300). What does AHCI do for the average
user who does not hot swap?

hey all..
can someone recommend a data recovery service who can retrieve data from
a crashed hard drive?

I'm using XP Pro SP2.
I have the "My Documents" Folder located on a separate physical drive.
If I remove* that drive and restart Windows I wondered how it would cope
with the My Documents folder not being in the location expected? Would it

I have a quick question about a failed hard drive.  I have a hard drive
that's giving me the "click of death".  It's a data drive, no OS, but it
has alot of family pix on it that I never backed up (about 8gb).  I'd
like to save the data, but it's also not worth it for me to spend ...

Dear Group,
I had Ubuntu running on my thinkpad T42 for the longest time on a
seagate drive (ST980815A). I had all my research work on there and it
died! Right when I made some room on my server (not even an hour ago)

Am building a box for a friend, and I would like to reduce the
potential of bottle neck at the HD, but avoid using a Raid 0 setup.
Build Details: Q6600, Abit IP35 Pro, 2GB Corsair XMS2, Black XP, etc.
I originally thought we would do a Raptor for the OS and applications,

I need about 10 Terabytes of storage space.
I see that there are 1 Terabyte disks available.
I'm new to RAID, so please...
As I understand it there are different ways to configure drives in a

I am replacing my main (C:) drive.  It was an PATA and I'm replacing
it with a SATA.  The folks at Fry's said there would be no problem --
just clone the current drive, set it as the first boot drive and I'd
be on my way.   Well, not so.  I have some arcane software that does

With a 4 drive raid10.. i'm a little unclear on how many can fail here
and still work..
Same with 8 drive?
Any thoughts?

Is it possible to restore a TI 11 backup to a different partition?
A friend has used it for the first time and he says he can only restore his
backup to the original (source) partition.
Is that correct?

I am in the process of picking out a Raid Controller for allot of
machine at work.
I have used the Promise TX2300. They are moody cards. They work on
some machines and not on others

I am a frequent user of VXA drives.  Our facility performs hundreds of
tape backups per year.  I have a tape that was made in 2003 using
Retropect (as all our backups).  the tape is a V17 and was made on a
SCSI VXA-1.  I have tried to restore the contents on a VXA-2 and

Just wondering if anyone has used or seen this so-called "raid alternative."
They call it a "storage robot."  No, I am not spamming for this company, I
actually just read about them in PC Photo's enewsletter, and was wondering
if anyone out there has heard anything about this ...