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mike wrote: Rounding IDE cables this looks as if it could cause electrical problems on the PATA cables. While that is theoretically true, it does work most of the time. Is it really as safe as he suggests it is? Nope, its easy to **** it up. If you must have round cables, it makes a hell of a lot more sense to go SATA instead. http://cpu-central.com/Articles.asp?...9&decor_int=27

Yousuf Khan wrote: Looks like I'm currently using my SATA drives in IDE emulation mode through the motherboard. The SATA drives appear under the "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" section of Device Manager. All SATA drives appear to be running in UDMA Mode 6 (ATA/133) at present. Question is will there be any noticeable difference in performance if I switch them into SATA mode? Second question, is it worth bothering under XP,...

On Nov 4, 4:05*pm, "Rod Speed" wrote: DManzaluni wrote: Thanks again for that very complete response but I am back at square one again! Why cant you do a clean install of Win2K on the non laptop you used to copy the old drive to the new drive in, with a CD drive in that system ? Or did I get that story wrong, and you only ever copied in the laptop ? At least I now know what to do: Get all the OS install files onto the USB...

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Thomas Blabb wrote: I would like to burn my DVDs with UDF format rather than the ISO-Jolliet. However my burning program(s) ask me which UDF version I would like to use in detail and offers me: 1.02 1.50 2.00 2.01 2.50 2.60 The higher the version (resp. revision) number the more and better fetaures are available. On the other side my resulting DVDs should be readable by most of the DVD drives on the market...

Al wrote: Hi Folks, I have a JMB36X Jmicron onboard (motherboard) eSATA controller. I am trying to use it with a Icy Dock MB881US-1S-1 SATA hard drive dock. This hard drive dock has the option to connect to my motherboard via eSATA. Kewl I thought. Just in case: Does it require a patch SATA cable from a normal SATA port to the eSATA port? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with...

On Nov 8, 8:45*pm, wrote: You should delete primary and secondary controller channels from Device manager and reboot that computer... It should then detect primary and secondary controller channel and reinstall it, also discover drives attached to it... That should be unnecessary, all it really requires is a couple of keys to be removed from the registry which will allow the capabilities to be redetected during the next reboot. The keys are...

On 10/31/2009 5:22 AM PT, Man-wai Chang to The Door (+MS=32B) typed: I read about Seagate File Recovery v2.0 ( https://services.seagate.com/diysoftware.aspx) . Is it any good or is it simple like any other file recovery tools (especially free ones)? Proper back-up procedure could never be replaced! I agree, but sometimes you accidently delete something. :/ -- "Antacid: What ants use to get high." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \...

The author has marked this message not to be archived. This post will be deleted on November 14, 2009. On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:56:25 -0700, Ant wrote: :On 10/30/2009 2:53 PM PT, Joep typed: : : It's superior to the freewares. It's a rebrand of R-Studio actually which I : regard pretty good software. : :Really? How is it better? Entering following in Google came up with about 117,000 hits: "r-studio" review I...

andy wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:34:42 -0800 (PST), DManzaluni wrote: This is becoming really annoying: I have now used xxclone to clone the drive. I watched after the copying of files was concluded and saw it copying the boot.ini and the MBR and making it bootable. At the end of the process xxclone recommends you to go through the process again in case what you have cloned isnt bootable. So I did this again. But still the drive wont boot. I...

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:03:20 +0800, "Man-wai Chang to The Door (+MS=32B)" wrote: After a reboot, I found that the USB device was no longer available (or the files on it) as xp reported it as requiring a format. Why would this happen, and do you think its possible to retrieve the data on the stick? What if you unplug and re-plug in the USB? Different machines running xp all come up with the same response "the disk is...