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COMPLETELY erasing a drive
Formatting your hard drive DOES NOT remove or erase your data! Are you aware that when you delete a file, format a disk, or partition a hard drive, that your data has not been removed? Did you know there are many programs that can recover your data? By using WipeDrive, you can securely overwrite...- MontyW
- Post #14
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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How to Partiton BIG HDD WINXP Pro & Linux
Do you really think that Windows should be 40GB? I was rethinking things after your post. How about this? Small C: drive where boot code could live with WINXP boot.ini file. Install WINXP in a 20 gb NTFS partition, allocate logical space for WINXP data files 20 gb and divide remaining space to...- MontyW
- Post #3
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Motherboard
This isn't possible in a $$$ context[bluegreedy]. I was a hardware engineer before my machine and assembler coding. I built the Intel equiv. of a mb before they existed outside the US(1973). There are CPU simulators but trying to simulate an entire board isn't feasible. You could get a board...- MontyW
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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How to Partiton BIG HDD WINXP Pro & Linux
QUESTION: Building new system from ground up. Will be WINXP Pro & Linux. Have brand new 80gb WD ATA/100 HDD, how should I partition this big drive. Biggest drive I ever had. Partition #1 FAT32 for Windows, what size? Partition #2 remainder of drive extended with Linux in a logical partition...- MontyW
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Sony DDS2
#1 Thing *** The tape drive MUST be powered on before the system is powered up!!! Otherwise the controller won't recognze it. #2 Make sure that the tape drive does not conflict with another SCSI devices. Every SCSI device has a unique #; the scsi board number is usually set as 7 & 1st and 2nd...- MontyW
- Post #2
- Forum: General storage discussion
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Recompile Red Hat 9.0 Kernel to read NTFS
To All: My mistake http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntf LINK IS IN ERROR! should read http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs forgot the "s" in ntfs. Sorry for any inconvenience. Please note there is a patch for kernel 2.4.19 but nothing before it. Use latest kernel when/if...- MontyW
- Post #5
- Forum: Linux (client/desktop)
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Recompile Red Hat 9.0 Kernel to read NTFS
Right, to mount your drive, first create a mount point. mkdir /mnt/ntfs Then you need to mount it, if its the first partition on the primary master then it will be /dev/hda1 for example. mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs then cd into that directory and check all is well. Now, if you want that to...- MontyW
- Post #3
- Forum: Linux (client/desktop)
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Can't write to C Drive
Getting this message on WINME at startup but the booting continues after "press any key to continue".[surprise] C Drive is IBM 9.1GB SCSI-3UW LVD. Been a charm since day one. All other SCSI devices were removed from controller and no change. Doesn't happen all the time. Have lots of...- MontyW
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
