Compressing Old Files
Hello, I would like to know the option(Compressing Old Files) which comes up during disk cleanup in win XP and win 2000. Is it good or bad? I mean, If I do the compression regularly will that effect my system/files in a long run? Is it same to that option (compress drive to save space) [...]

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2012  6:37 AM
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USB External Hard drive and Windows XP
I have two issues which are basically the same. I have an external USB hard drive that I connect to a computer running Windows XP. Windows USB driver recognizes the hard drive and shows the drive in Device Manager but Windows does not show the drive in Windows Explorer. A customer has a USB FLASH [...]

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2013  11:58 AM
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Recommendation of Win2k srvr HDD perf monitoring
Can anyone recommend what Performance Log Counters they would configure their Win2k server to monitor its disk, RAID controller, and other hardware / software settings that supports a server?s data storage and transfer of data (e.g. SCSI card, Hard Drive, Paging, I/O, etc.)? I have to set up a hard drive performance counter on a [...]

Answer Question   |  May 18, 2005  11:15 AM
Adapters/Interfaces, Arrays, Disk drives, Hardware, Monitoring, RAID, SCSI, Storage products and equipment, Windows, Windows 2000 Server

Hard Disk Data Recovery – NTFS MBR Failure-2
Hello everyone, I have a Western Digital 800JB ATA 80GB 7200rpm drive that was used for a time as a boot drive for WXPP. It was replaced recently as a boot drive by a smaller 40GB drive, and the 80GB drive relegated to backup duties (slaved to a CD drive on a 40-wire cable). Before [...]

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2012  7:12 AM
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Hard Disk Data Recovery – NTFS MBR Failure
Hello everyone, I have a Western Digital 800JB ATA 80GB 7200rpm drive that was used for a time as a boot drive for WXPP. It was replaced recently as a boot drive by a smaller 40GB drive, and the 80GB drive relegated to backup duties (slaved to a CD drive on a 40-wire cable). Before [...]

Answer Question   |  January 27, 2012  7:12 AM
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HBA not showing WWN
A SearchStorage.com reader asks: WE have a data center server, 2003 servers and two HBAs in each node. Both the cards are Emulex Fibre Channel Cards. One card is already in working condition. We have recently added the second HBA card. The driver was updated, and I am able to detect two HBAs from the [...]

Answer Question   |  August 6, 2009  10:27 AM
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Moving DNS outside
We are moving DNS services outside and I would like to learn more about how to set this up. We currently have AD Integrated DNS server, Primary DNS server, and Secondary DNS servers set up in our AD domain. We have 2 Domain Controllers, one on Windows 2003 w/Exchange 2003 w/GC, and one Windows 2000 [...]

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2004  8:28 AM
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