How do I duplicate or clone a dying SATA drive?
If a sata drive is dying what is the best method to duplicate or clone it without risking the data? Is this the same for ide or scsi drives? If not please list the best methods for these as well across any platform.

Answer Question   |  August 10, 2010  2:16 PM
Backup, Clone database, IDE, IDE hard drives, SATA, SATA Drives, SCSI, SCSI Drives

c++ reading data from txt files in tokens
I have tried a lot to manipulating strings. I want such code witch read the data from input file. I want to get data in tokens (to store in variables) of type char or int of specific location in input file.  I want to store string parts in variables for   further use. eof() helps [...]

Answer Question   |  July 9, 2010  7:27 AM
C++, IDE, Software programming industry, String manipulation

Crystal Reports migration issue
I have report created with CR basic for VS .NET 2003. Some time ago i have to put this report to project crearted in VS 2008. IDE automaticly converted the report to the newest version of CR. Report include one subreport. When this report is printed from .NET 2003 project it looks fine. When i [...]

Answer Question   |  June 17, 2009  12:01 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports migration, IDE, VB.NET 2003, Visual Studio, VS 2003, VS 2008

Data Recovery from hard disk
hi, I have one 40 GB IDE harddisk. it’s burn. now when i try on switch on my pc. it’s get shut done. but my pc is working with other HD. I have some imp. data hard drive. my question is that if i remove data disk (metal plate)from HD. and put that on other [...]

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2011  4:20 PM
Data Recovery, Hard disks, IDE

Sata drive hijacking the boot process?
I tried installing a Sata drive as a secondary drive (to the existing IDE). First I could not get the onboard Sata connections to work, so installed a Sata card. After wrestling with drivers, it was finally up & running….but apparently wants to take over as soon as Windows (XP sp3) starts to load. The [...]

Answer Question   |  April 2, 2009  5:11 PM
IDE, SATA, SATA Hard Drive

VMware ESXi 3.5 error when installing on IDE drive machine
I am trying to install VMware ESXi 3.5 on a machine with an IDE drive and am getting the following error message: “Unable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 image to”.

Answer Question   |  March 10, 2009  1:22 PM
IDE, VMware, VMware ESXi 3.5, VMware ESXi error messages, VMWare Installation

IDE – SATA drive combo
I followed the discussion about putting IDE drives into a system with SATA drives. I’ve done this successfully, but on one machine (Win XP Pro), the system constantly reboots if an IDE drive is attached to the cable marked ‘slave’. I removed the jumper according the instructions on the drive. Is there a fix for [...]

Answer Question   |  December 15, 2008  2:34 PM
Hard drives, IDE, IDE hard drives, SATA, SATA Hard Drive, Windows XP

Install IDE drive as slave on a Vista Dual Core Processor w/SATA primary drive
First: Got a new Vista machine (pentium Dual Core Processor) w/SATA hard drive. Want to install a 5 year old 40 gig Western Digital IDE drive as a slave for storage. The motherboard has what looks like a connection for an IDE drive. The connection on the board is blue to match the blue end [...]

Answer Question   |  December 9, 2008  7:54 PM
Hard drives, IDE, IDE hard drives, SATA, SATA hard drives, Secondary hard drive, Slave drives, Vista, Windows Vista