Missing Disk Space Hi, have two 1TB HDD's not set up in raid config... (1 listed as C other as D) Recentley moved lots of pics to back up in D... in calculating used space i have noted a loss of 121.6G that i cannot account for. I have pc set up with two users... is it a case of that other users...
I removed the DVD recorder drive by unplugging it from the computer tower, now that I have put it back in, it does not recognize any discs I put in there and now the CD ROM does not either, I believe it may have to do with some of the wires that have PS6 and PS8 on them and maybe the PS4 wire. How...
I have recently purchased a second hand memorex CD writer and although it looks in fine order and will play discs I cannot get it to copy/write/or burn discs. It is connected to my PC with a USB - Do I need a driver? or something. If so how do I go about this. Can anyone help please?
I have one LPAR which is a mirrored LPAR running MIMIX and it is having an issue with a System Resident Task of SMIOSTCPGT running a constant 35% of CPU and the disk drives are running at voer 50% busy over a 2 minute sample. I also have other LPARs also running MIMIX and I have not seen an issue...
I have sanitized the disk drives and ready to physicall remove them. I have tried device concurrent maintence to remove the disk drives, when I pull the disk drive out, it sends a critical hardware message to qsysopr message queue. IBM says that I need to power down the system then remove them. ...
Hello Have a client at V5R3. Before I can upgrade them, I had to order 2 additional disk units. I will need to install them. Not being a hardware guy, I am not really sure what is involved. I was told that I just had to pull off the front panel, and then, pop the new disk into the empty...
HUGE hard disks problem, PLEASE! help. (Apologies for the lengthy message. My technical expertise is nil and I don't know what information is needed, so I prefer to include every possible detail. Neither is my English very good, but I hope to be able to explain the situation clearly) My computer...
Does it help to defragment the local hard disks on SQL Server to improve performance? I just started a new position and the drives on the servers are very fragmented. Could defragmenting them help boost some performance? Thanks.
My as400 is showing a status of 'degraded' when doing a 'wrkdsksts'. I would assume that one of the disk has failed but all say operational when using display hardware resources. Help!
Hello everyone, I am currently working on a worldwide project and I need address one specific issue: Which is the better solution in terms of: 1. Administration (time dedicated to daily production). 2. Product effectiveness and by this I mean the products capacity to provide a 100% or close to...
I've recently scheduled a daily procedure (CMD) to run on a test group of PCs (including one server with mirrored drives) that runs CHKDSK early every morning. While running under Windows, if it finds errors, it will shutdown/restart and CHKDSK /F will be run to repair the errors. Out of a group...
Hi all, I wrote not long ago about the best way to upgrade disks when using RAID1. I've now managed to copy all contents from my 2 original volumes, into 2 identical (but larger) volumes on the new larger disk. I used Ghost for this, by making a backup of first the system volume, then the data...
Hello, I have an issue i never ran into before. I have a brand new CD/DVD burner that will burn CDs but not DVDs. It is a LG GSA-4160B (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B in windows). Now i already updated the firmware to the latest version (406a) to no prevail. And the strangest thing is if you have a...
From the last few days I am facing this problem. When I shut down my Win 2000 Server(SP4) at the end of the day the end program-exlorer.exe dialog box comes up twice and it shuts down only after I click on the 2 end now buttons. Both end program dialog boxes are same and comes one after another....
If I run check disk on the next system boot, I'd like to know if it found and fixed any problems. Does it generate a report, and where would I find it? Someone suggested the event log, but I may not know what I am looking for: a log, a report, a breif line item description?
Hi , I am mahesh.j a fresher , i would like build my carrier on storage .where i am familer to storage hardware now i would like expertise on it.My question is that how to be expertise on it, so i would request u all help me on it by ur guidlines. what are platform of operating...
I have 25 4319 10k 35gb disk drives in a closet my management would like to have added to the existing iSeries. My question is if I replace FC#4318 10k 17gb drives with FX#4319 10k 35gb drives will performance degrade? How or where can I find the seek times, MTBF numbers etc to compare performance?
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) in disk...


