Storage

scan disk
hi all. i need to know how exactly the scan disk works ...., coz i want to write code in C or any other language ...., which performs the function of scan disk ...., pls let me know the steps involved to test HDD ...,pls guide me in this regard .... ravi. ... 4 Mar 2006 15:21

ViPower Landisk - Best Firmware
Everyone, I just bought ViPower Landisk VPA-3528-net http://www.vipower.com.tw/P_LD_VPA-3528Net.htm And I do like it allot and it looks nice as well. I did have a old version of the Firmware "NAS-basic32, Loader 66" After hunting around the web I decided to flash it with the firmware from the manufacturer Pleiades whic... 4 Mar 2006 03:52

SATA 3G
I have an HP Pavilion 1090n computer with ASUS PTGD1-LA motherboard. This system supports SATA and I am adding a couple of external SATA hard drives in Vantec Nexstar cases. I will probably purchase Hitachi 7K500 drives, which support 3G. Question: does 3G SATA support have to be provided on the system (motherboard... 3 Mar 2006 13:57

Jbod NAS
Is there a gigabit NAS that can function as a JBOD? I don't need RAID and I want the disk to be standard NTFS - swapable into any win XP system? Thanks Joe ... 28 Feb 2006 15:35

oh boy .... 'Reboot & select proper boot device or insert boot mediain selected boot device & press a key'
lately I have been getting this message on a DOS screen upon startup, first from hibernation, and now from a shutdown restart. does this mean my HD is failing, or can it be file corruption? over the last 3-4 weeks I have been occasionally getting this error message after starting from hibernation mode. it just si... 25 Feb 2006 02:21

S.M.A.R.T. reallocated sector count failure
Hello, All! I checked the health of my drives, 2 SATA (Raid0), and 2 IDE drives. All of them are showing ID5 reallocated sector count failures. I can understand one showing this but all of them?? Any ideas what could cause this? Thanks, Colonel Blip. E-mail: colonelblip.no.spam.please(a)bigfoot.com --... 28 Feb 2006 18:11

restoring hard drive
We had a Dell notebook that stopped working due to water damage. The hard drive is ok and we would like to hopefully put the data from the hard drive onto a toshiba notebook. I'm assuming Dell/Microsoft tie WinXP to there notebooks so wanted to know if there was a way to put this data onto the Toshiba without hav... 21 Feb 2006 14:46

Floppy HD and CDROM drivers not in BIOS
Hi there. I have and old AT&T GLOBALYST 375TPC , 1G , 128 ram that was working fine at the time when I storeged it in a dry place three years ago. Now I cant go beyond the BIOS, where Floppie, HD and CD ROM Drives are missing. I took out the battery overnight and keeps the same. Theres a popup telling me theres a... 18 Feb 2006 14:49

Fixing a USB flash drive
A couple of Christmases ago I was given a 1 GB Lexar Jump Drive. I guess they were pretty expensive then, as that capacity was relatively new. Anyway, I've been using it for months without problem, until today when I started copying a bunch of files that filled it beyond the point where it had been used previou... 24 Feb 2006 18:03

Win98se and 48 bit LBA
Apologies if covered previously, no time to keep up lately. After reading one page on the hard drive limit for win98 and drivers over (is it) 137GB, I am more confused than before. I want to buy a 160GB or larger HD and use it on a win98SE box. None of my partitions will be over 100GB, so am I safe to use su... 22 Feb 2006 06:48