Re: Drivers - how to get

["Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry it took so long to respond - I took a completely different route.

I discovered the PC I've been using the past couple of years was not set up
as I requested.  It was supposed to have a set of mirrored drives where I
would keep the OS, programs, etc., and a 320gb drive where I stored whatnot
stuff from wherever.  Instead of mirroring the primary hard drives, the
local PC store did a RAID stripe.  The 2 80gb drives are seen as a single
160gb drive.  Performance is nice, but if _either_ drive goes, I'm toast.

I was trying to use Image For Windows ("IFW") for making image backups, and
running into problems with file locking that would lock up my PC _hard_.
IFW tech support was spending a lot of effort trying to help me.  When I
informed them what I had dicovered regarding the RAID stripe, they felt it
was never going to work because they had run into this before with the
Nforce RAID stripe.  Since the setup wasn't what I wanted anyway, I decided
to change it.

I bought a 1tb drive for $100.  I cloned the 320gb drive onto the 1tb drive
and stuck it into my PC instead.  Then I cloned the RAID stripe set onto the
320gb drive and put it into the PC as the primary hard drive.  That was
yesterday.  Today I'm going to try the IFW again and see what happens.

I still don't have mirroring, but if IFW works, I can take image backups
regularly onto the 1tb drive to use in case the primary dies.

--
Jeff Crosby
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company.  Unless I say so.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Adam Glauser
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 11:13 AM
> To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Drivers - how to get
>
> Adam Glauser wrote:
> > You might be able to get some help from the folks at NForcersHQ:
> > http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/index.php
>
> More specifically, this page seems to have some good info, which might
> at least get you going in the right direction.
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/optimized-nforce-chipset-driverpacks-for-xp-
> 32-64bit-vt70968.html
>
> Good luck!
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