Up till now i've always done the following
1 drive - Primary is C -
then an Extended with maybe 1 or 2 logical for data
any comments on this as i think / thought extended is the way to go ?

Is it possible to get a vintage 5.25" PC floppy drive connected to a
modern PC with no floppy controller and just USB/FireWire inputs? Do IDE
5.25" floppy drives exist? If so, I could drop one into a USB enclosure.
Is there an adapter that would let me connect a floppy drive to ...

My PC has been taking a slow turn of lately with the Computer loading
slow, video play back spluttering, Erratic CPU speeds and forever
loading games and low FPS.  I recently re installed my windows vista
after trying Windows 7 Beta and it hasnt improved (it started when W7

We have just bought Dell MD1000, together with 15 SAS 15K hard disks.
This server will be connected to 6 web servers which provide a
centralized storage using NFS.
This server is important as if it down, other web servers didn't work

Drives are working and show in the Disk Manager and the desktop
but no longer showing in the Disk Management.
No hardware changed made,  it just happened,  backed out all the last  MS
updates and did scans for Viruses and Malware.

As far as I found out there two different tools for making an USB stick bootable:
"HP Drive Key Boot Utility"
and
"HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool"

Hi.  I have a file server with a raid array and I'm having some lousy
performance numbers.  This is what I'm working with:
Opteron 2.2ghz CPU on Asus M2N-LR mobo
4GB RAM

Testing a FreeAgent drive  and the drive was playing up started to click,
Windows SeaTools Test shows that Drive as 100%  but not even showing on the
Desktop, and I tested the drive over and over again still 100%..
BUT after quitting SeaTools and running it again it, then could not ...

Is the message I get when I turn on computer it says to restart comp.
and when I do it repeats message. The first time I turned on comp it
read Chkdsc is verifying indexes correcting error in index $SDH for
file 9 insuff disc space to correct errors correcting error in index

For inconveniencing you, I apologize.
Now, to avail of free root access, first login to one system:
telnet trainingzone.getmyip.com
(username: unix password: no password, hit enter), then, telnet

Anyone familiar with Backup Exec?
I'm trying to wrap my head around how exactly I should be using
'backup-to-disk' now that I've decided to ditch tapes here for my small
office.  Running Backup Exec 12.5.

Looking for a Sata Raid 1 controller for server application like
databases and mail servers.. Any recommemdations in the $400 or less
price range?
Tony

I have a 500Gig WD h/d and a NextStar 3 usb enclosure and a problem
*I can only format when the drive is attached as an IDE device. I then
attach it to the usb and and works great...I copy files into it then after I
turn the computer off and hte usb drive off

If I take a backup image of a fragmented drive and restore it onto a new
one, does the new one inherit the fragmentation from the image?

I have released a new version of hdtest, a program that tests whether
hard disks write out-of-order relative to the order that the writes
were passed to them from the OS.  You find the program at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/hdtest/