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Recovering SATA hard disk and data after faulty connection

NewnanIT — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:40:46 +0000

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Windows XP SP3 alerts for low hard disk space

ITKE — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:15:14 +0000

How can I set up counters or monitors on Windows XP SP3 machines to alert me to low hard disk space, high memory or processor consumption? Can I do it using Group Policy on AD?

RAID1 on computer with 2 internal hard-disks

ITKE — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:58:30 +0000

I have two identical hard disks in RAID1 array (no additional hard drives are available). There is a CD/DVD drive and USB. I need a solution for both Windows XP and Linux OS, but as single-OS, no dual booting.

I’ve run into several hassles: Upgrading Linux kernel on a machine where one boots from RAID1 was a major pain. Took several long days.

During backups or partition management, backing up a bootable RAID1 partition is an “advanced” task with Acronis.

I have no PCI slot available so if I buy a quality hw RAID card, I have no slot to install it. My choices are often sw raid or BIOS-level on board RAID.

I’ve had recommendations of non-RAID boot partitions. How large a partition would this be? Is the info read-only? Is the info accessed by the OS only during boot or after boot during normal operation? I reboot every couple months, and I don’t mind a slower boot process if I gain simplicity/robustness.

Is there a way of checking remote PCs to see how much of the hard drive is taken up with MS Office documents?

ArtVanderlay — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:46:26 +0000

I would like to run a report that tells me how much space on all our user’s laptops is taken up with MS Office files (Excel, Powerpoint, Word). Currently a lot of our laptop users are saving their data to the local HDD and we would like to get them to back up this data to the network. It would be really useful to have an idea of how much server space we are going to need – hence the need for a report that gives us an idea of the total amount of files that are likely to be backed up.