Storage

Some Opnions on Diskeeper Defragger??
George Orwell <nobody(a)mixmaster.it> wrote: I'm using Windows XP Pro (SP2). I downloaded Diskeeper's freebie that can be used only manually - Diskeeper Lite 9.0.528, and I'd appreciate some input here. I notice that it takes *forever* to defrag my disks compared to the built in XP defrag utility. Of... 3 Feb 2007 00:34

pen drive & rom..... hhhmmmm
Is it possible to lock an amount (such us 10%) of the whole available space on a flash drive (pen drive) to eliminate any possibility of overwriting/cancellation/.... ? How do i perform that? Thanks Vinnie ... 29 Jan 2007 19:35

multilane sata (what is it/ advantages? etc)
I'm seeing alot of new server rackmount sata backplanes listed as "multilane"... I'm not familiar with this terminology.. is having a rackmount server with removable SATAII HDs and this terminology better in any way than those without? Thanks ... 30 Jan 2007 09:51

StarageTek L180 - New Daylight Savings Time Date?
Hello all. I am running an STK L180 tape library for all backups on our domain. The server is Win 2k3 using Veritas NetBackup 4.5GA. Since this library keeps time itself, does anyone know what will happen due to the new date of DSL starting this year? Thanks for any help! - Scott ... 29 Jan 2007 15:17

Cloning disk image within same hard drive??
I have a latop with only one hard drive I want to save the current C drive to an image. Is there any free software that can clone within the same harddrive? (target and destination are the same hard drive, but driver letters are different. For example copy F drive to C drive) ... 30 Jan 2007 09:20

new SATA hd problem
Hi, I just bought a new Seagate Seagate Barracuda 300GB Hard Drive model #ST3300622AS-RK to install on my Dell Dimension 9200 to repalce a ST3300622AS-RK. I thought this would be simple because I am replacing one seagate drive with one that is virtually identical (except for the size and that the old one is 7200.... 29 Jan 2007 09:21

how do we read the return data of atatpi commands
how do we read the return data of atatpi commands?INQUIRY command returns 36 bytes but i am unable to figure out from where this return data is read. please help Thanks ... 19 Feb 2007 08:54

Partition new USB 2.0 drive
I've just installed a 320MB LaCie drive and I want to create a 50MB logical partition but when I go to Control Panel/Performance & Maintenance/Disk Management I can't see any option to create a partition (XPH+SP2). I've tried r/clicking on any drive and none of them give me this option. Has my XP taken a dive o... 23 Jan 2007 17:38

Hard drive looses capacity down to that of a floppy
My computer recently lost power and upon booting up again, I forgot that there was a floppy disc in the floppy drive. It was a system bootable floppy (win98 startup disk if I remember correctly). I was away when it booted into the disc and the result was a a:> prompt on the screen. Well, I thought nothing of it, an... 22 Jan 2007 17:45

Slave Drive Corrupted: Is It For Real?
I have a Maxtor 40GB ATA Hard Drive (internal) that I use as a slave for file storage only. I rebooted my computer and got this message: Z:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Are there any best practice troubleshooting tips that I can do to determine whether it is reall... 31 Jan 2007 21:56