I have client who has a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 2 GB (SDCZ6-2048RB) that
comes with U3 Smart feature. How can he use this USB Flash stick/drive
under his old Windows 98 SE via its USB connection?
I did not see a driver for this specific model (SDCZ6-2048RB) on

Is the SATA connector on a 2.5" notebook drive a different SATA
connector than is found on the 3.5" desktop drive? I need to copy a
notebook drive, and the connector at least looks different. If it is
different, where can I find a suitable SATA-to-IDE or SATA-to-SATA

I have just about reached the point of throwing these disks away.
However, one last shot - I hope someone can help me.
I have a Panasonic DVD recorder that randomly decides healthy dvd-ram
disks are unformatted, and that they are locked, and cannot be

We've just bought an AX100 on ebay and have it running in our test
environment. Cheap and cheerful...
While we can run it on a UPS we don't have any signalling set-up so
the AX100 does not know it's on a UPS and does not enable the write

I'm wondering why I shouldn't consider an on-line back-up solution?  As
an example, allmydata.com advertises unlimited storage for $5.00 a
month.  A big external disk is on the order of $150.  It would take 30
months to pay for the disk at $5.00/month.  Of course, it would ...

Are they using the same set of plugs as 3.5" SATA disks?
How about... 1.8 inch ones?

I have a filesystem containing many media files such as JPEG, TIFF,
AVI in the mix.  Some of these files are heavily edited by users.  So,
if I configure hourly snapshots on this filesystem, these files end up
consuming a lot of snapshot space.  Now, if I do not configure hourly

I recently did a hard drive upgrade, which has left me with a somewhat strange
situation, whereby I can boot XP, and not Vista, or Vista, and not XP.  
Right now, XP is booting, with no boot manager menu.  
If I boot the Vista DVD and do an automated repair, it replaces the boot

What's the difference between V and G?

I have a TSSTcorp TS-H652L DVD writer that has been burning DVDs at 16x
using DVDFab 5.  Now, using the same TDK disks, it writes at 0.9 to 1.6x.
I don't know what changed.  I haven't added any hardware or updated the PC
or DVD BIOS.

I have been using a Maxtor Shared Storage II for over a year now. This
is connected to a Netgear DG834G (aka DG834Gv1) router which connects
wirelessly to my laptop. The main use of the Maxtor drive is to store
films and my iTunes library. The network drive and the router have the

There are some big drives that sell really cheap. e.g external Cavalry
500GB for $80, Maxtor OneTouch 4 750GB for $135, Seagate etc. They're
either unknown brand, e.g. Cavalry or receiving bad user ratings. It
appears that big drives are not as reliable as the smaller HDs. I

My computers HD crashed again and I have to reinstall everything.  Recently,
these USB flash drives are getting quite reasonable and I began to think how
nice it would be if I could used them as a boot drive instead the traditional
head thrashers.  I was looking at the 3.5 inch dead ...

I'm installing SATA drives in an external SAS enclosure.  The
enclosure is connected to a LSI Logic MegaRAID 8888ELP RAID card.
My question is, what advantage will a 4x SAS cable connecting the RAID
card to the enclosure give me over a 1x cable?  And does it matter

A friend gave me a 5 1/4 inch floppy that she wants to retrieve some
data from.
It has a reinforcing ring around the center hole.  That means it's low
density, right?  360KB per disk, right?