[SEL] O.T. O.T. Need Computer Help

Listerdiesel listerdiesel at gmail.com
Sat Jan 10 00:52:10 PST 2009


On 09/01/2009, paulmaples at sbcglobal.net <paulmaples at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Thanks Curt and I totally understand the potential for disaster messing with
> the registry.
>
> Paul

One thing that you have to do with most larger hard drives is to
enable large lba code in the registry, other wise you're limited to
137gb or less, depending on your OS. I think XP came with this
enabled?

I've just had a new 500gb Maxtor/Seagate drive go wobbly on me on our
storage PC, and installed a secondhand 250gb drive to get going again
with the backups. Avoid any drives made in China!  Our recovery guy
reckons that the failure rates for Chinese drives is far above the
industry norm, and recommends that Singapore-built drives are probably
the best, alongside Malaysian, followed by Thailand in that order.

We still use Windows 200 Pro. although we do have some new software
and licences for XP pro if we want to go that route some time. Vista I
would not use, and most of our machines are not hardware compatible
anyway.

Peter
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