XP Pro SP3

I was working with a computer that is rarely used but for a type of server. I use it as part of my whole house audio and to store some videos and music plus some other things. I was working with it...

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I meant this one. Who are you talking to? Just curious.

Who are you talking to? Me?

What do you mean it's probably always been on ide? For the first years they owned it I was on their machine and it was in raid 1 then and working fine.

I went over to a friends house to work on their computer for them and ended up replacing their video card. As I was working on it I was messing around with their intel raid storage and noticed that...

In a machine I am working on neither cd burner will read anything. I have uninstalled drivers, there is no 3rd party burner installed. What could it be?

Yep, I hit F6 and used the floppy and it worked. Now we have a problem that it won't install any more of the SP2 updates that it says we need. It says it failed to install.

I am helping my brother in law out trying to do a non destructive repair using the installation disc. When we went through all the steps and got to the section that shows the hard drives it does not...

Seagate came out with a 500gb hdd that has a 32mb cache. How important is cache size? Will it make much of a difference in speed? Would it be more important to have the 32mb cache size on my os...

I have tried to get the freeagent pro to recognize the esata port but for some reason it just doesn't. I have read others who have had the same problem on google but did not find an answer. Does...

My mobod will support many different types of raid so that is not a problem. My question is about raid and the os. What would be the best way to do it. I don't want any other type of raid so don't...

Actually, I had to go into the hd and find an autostart file. I had to delete it and presto it worked.

I clicked on the my computer icon yesterday and noticed that the icon for one of my hard drives had changed to a different icon. It is the one that is like a piece of paper with the corner folded...

I couldn't find it and didn't have time to restart and go in and check. I just did download the newest version now though.

Can anyone tell me what error 57 is. I am using Bootit NG to resize my partition C and make it larger. The problem is when I go to resize it says error 57 found on file system. Use scandisk or...

Yes, I thought so too, but someone was trying to tell me that you should install it on a whole nother raid array so you would have 2 raids. One for the os and one for the documents etc. I didn't...

Here is the setup. XP MCE
2-320gb hdd set up in raid 1 with the os on one partition along with apps
the other partition has the videos and pics etc.
If I want to upgrade the os to vista what will...

On another computer it will be doing some video editing, what array is best for that? Don't tell me 0 please, as I will never use that because of how volitale it is.

Got it. I did the hardware setup.

So should I set up raid before I install the os also? I thought I had to install the raid drivers first? Could you explain the steps please? Thanks.

So should I get the partititons set before I do the raid setup?

If I create a raid with the hard disks having two partitions what do I have to do different?

A friend of mine set up his new computer but in the mean time he set up a raid array with only one computer. I am not familiar with the abit way of doing it but it looks like it is a 0 array. If he...

I want a good external hd for my brother in law. I know I could make one for him but I want one that has good software with it and is user friendly for someone without any computer knowledge for...

I have a friend that has a laptop without firewire inputs just usb 2. His video camera has firewire outputs. How will he connect this to his laptop? Can he get an external hard drive that has usb...

If I ever decide to take off the raid array can it be done? Can I just shut off raid and use one of the hard drives as another hard drive? Also, if I decide to keep the raid can I partition it...

I have decided now to raid. I am going for it as a new adventure. I do want to ask this question though. I went through the step of starting the raid in bios and then went through the setup where...

After doing a lot more reading on the subject I have come to the conclusion that raid 1 is not all that safe and there are still issues that can cause you to lose your info. The safest to me is to...

Is the raid 1 actually good for home use. It will have farm data that is important. Would it be just as good to have two hard drives and do regular backups to it and once in awhile to backup to...

My older machine is a year old and my mobod will take a raid 1. I don't have any raid installed with my board as I did not do this at install. What will it take to get those installed if it can be...

This is a brand new machine. Total new install. Should I update the chipset to the newest update? Also what about a the latest bios and video card update?

I have a computer with two hd in but...

So it's not just plug and play. Looks like a little bit of work but shouldn't be too hard.
So I install the os, put in the raid floppy, installl that go through installation of os. Before I do...

It is actually a new MSI K9N platinum for the AM2. I have since found out that it will work to even a raid 5. I have never set up a raid before but I gotta learn sometime. What is this with the...

When setting up raid 1 do can you use sata drives?

I did, I just didn't find. I didn't quite put in the correct search terms. I ended up using Doug Knox's remedy. Done.

I go to my computer and it takes me to all my drives. Now when I click on them it takes me to the search instead of opening it up. When I right click search is on top and bold and open is directly...

Results for volume C: (NTFS)

Volume Label:

Volume Size: 62.36 GB

Some files on the volume are open. This may effect the accuracy of the file system check and result in false errors.
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Thanks. I do video editing but not all the time and not a lot. I will probably just keep it as two seperate hd.
I just need a better understanding about using the two as seperates.
My...