Recent content by JimB

What time would it take for a HD of 1TB with approx. 750GB data on it. I would need it to format external HD's connected to my laptop. I understand that formatting/erasing data goes faster without using the OS. I'll check Parted Magic too. Thanks

It's still under warranty. So you think they would be able to repair it ? I mean the raid0. Would that help me to restore the data on the disc(s) ?

Is there anyone who has some experience with securely erasing data on large capacity HD's. Like with this method http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

I have a LaCie 1TB. (yes the one with the metal case). It contains 2x 500GB discs with a raid0. One day a red LED showed up instead of a blue one on the front. I could not access anything anymore. Now it shows only one of the 500GB discs, and under disc management, and it says unallocated...

Thanks, well than I'll give it a try and install that program from the setup.exe within the iso file I can see on the clone drive. Saves me the burning of the iso file on a CD I guess.

I have a virtual clone drive installed on my Vista OS. If I run the setup.exe from a program within an iso file which content's I can view in my virtual clone drive; will it install the program on my HD ? I mean without or instead off having to burn the ISO on a disc and consequently install the...

Not exactly because I want to do a repair installation on the other partition with the OS XPPro on it and that I can only access in safe mode.

I think you mean "setup.exe". Oh ye it starts and I get the CD-Ronm installation menu; I'm only afraid it's not gonna install on the right partition.

I have a laptop HD where I couldn't access my C (20Gb). The HD was divided in 2 partitions : C and D. So with the help of a PartMagic setup diskette I managed to free some 2Gb space on the D partition and created a third partition E behind the D. From my installation CD I installed with the help...

Of course but anyway how you turn it; even if you have lots of CPU and RAM, it will take quite a big leap of that (without evn mentioning the free HD space that according to spewcialists should be around 40Gb for a top working Vista), CPU and RAM you can't use for anything else like games...

I'm looking for help on the use of RAM-discs. I have a brand new Samsung +/- RW WRITER SH-S162L. Normally a RAM disc could be used as an HD within Explorer; adding files and deleting them; of course when the disc is loaded only. This doesn't seem to work however. Do I need to load...