maxXPsoft Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 Thats cool xper trying to compare to my methodswhere a drive physically fails Sorry I just think thats funny. I have never and I mean ever had a drive fail, is it the manufacturer and or type or this bogus crud they trying to sell or promote? My first drive I ever personally had is still in use and has been formatted probably over 200 times including low level, its a Seagate. shhhh don't tell my inlaws Only drives I ever had problems with were Maxtor btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 where a drive physically fails Sorry I just think thats funny. I have never and I mean ever had a drive fail, is it the manufacturer and or type or this bogus crud they trying to sell or promote? My first drive I ever personally had is still in use and has been formatted probably over 200 times including low level, its a Seagate. shhhh don't tell my inlaws Only drives I ever had problems with were Maxtor btw Consider yourself lucky. I've personally had 4 drives die on me, all within the last 5 years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman112 Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 ok, great, just done all that is mentioned in the word doc, went to burn it and its bigger than a CD, the files to be burned are about 815MB in totalcan you tell me where ive gone wrong on this, and please try and keep it simple for me, im new to all this slipstreaming stuffthanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekrel Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 @ Sandman, you have probably included some files, which are not needed - but we cant see which ones, so create a seperate thread - more people will see it that way and also describe fully what is in your drivers folder.To Xper , just to say a quick thankyou on the guide, I found it so easy to follow - and thought you deserved alot of praise as you have put in alot of effort to make the guide. which is also like I said, very clear and easy to follow.So thanks mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buletov Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 and I use the Maxtor ATA133 so yeah, it's gonna beat the WD because those are only ATA100bullcrap...maximur real read/write speed on those disks is around 20-25MB/sso the difference between ata100 and ata133 is obsolete.plus the maxtor drivers have the highest rate of suddenly crapping out on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idic Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 ... let me start by saying ... sorry. I didn't mean to post this rant type post.but ... I had to register on this forum just to reply to this lunacy.just seems there should be an easier way Of course not. We're geeks we don't do things the easy way.Good reason to stay with parallel ATA in my opinionthat, and I haven't seen real speed benefits that outweight the risks involved with raidI just don't know where to start with this. I actually don't know if i can reply with out getting out of control. Where did you ... no ... how on earth could you ... no ... good god man what the ... no ... what tests did you run ... ah, ffs. SATA + raid not faster than ata. <sigh> i have 2 sata drives in raid1 that on there own had better data read ( not sustained ) than my SCSI 160 drive. You sold PC's at future shop, didn't you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muiz Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 greenmachine works also fine without step 3 and 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blam-O! Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 Just wanted to say thanks for the Doc. Looks really good - even if all you did was re-wright it. I haven't had the time to actualy test it, but I have already successfuly made my own Unattended Slipsteamed CD of Windows XP Pro W/ SP2. (Works Great, Good Time Saver).And just for the Record, I love Maxtor. WD Second. And YES! - SATA Has Better Performance. (Man, stupid people theses days.... ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blam-O! Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 just seems there should be an easier way Of course not. We're geeks we don't do things the easy way. Yes!!! That's what I'm Talking about... .Finnaly someone else that knows what I'm talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNARZ Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 whats with the textmode folder? isn't that the easiest way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCobra Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 It's easier to do it the way the .doc file describes. I've always slipstreamed my (E)IDE/SATA drivers that way since finding these forums but it DOES work. I use recovery tools like O&O BlueCon and I honestly don't know how they would react to a textmode folder with stuff jammed in it.As to the IDE/SATA issue...WTF...Of course it's faster. Do a little reading and compare the two. I myself personally don't use raid arrays. I do use SATA drives for everyday use. About the only action my IDE drives see these days is for archival, general storage and disk imaging. I'll be so glad when all the old stuff is finally laid to rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLF Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 @maxXPsoftSorry I just think thats funny. I have never and I mean ever had a drive failI used to work at a PC wholesalers in UK, (fairly small firm with a turnover of GBP16M) as a test engineer on the customer returns dept and let me tell you we used to get a min of 25-30 hard disks physically fail a WEEK.@et alYes we did get more Maxtors back than anything else, very closely followed by Hitachi, then Samsung, then IBM (although to be fair IBM tended to fail in whole batches - does this make 'em ok then?!). 1. Western Digital and 2. Seagate (in that order) are the most reliable IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 i like Hitachi. Sure I run the risk of them failing, but they have a 3 year warranty compared to the 1 year most others have. If I keep things backup, I don't really care that it fails, I have a few spares in the closet ready to go with WIndows installed and everything just to put it in the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raskren Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 So it looks like my stuff is getting "republished." Fine with me, thanks for the credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLF Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 i like Hitachi@AlanollMy last post wasn't meant to be the ultimate buyers' guide for purchasing harddisks! Go with what you're confident with. It was just a report of the facts in my personal experience of harddisk failures. It wasn't a scientific experiment and results from other wholesalers may be different.I think its a very classic case of you get what you pay for. The results virtually mimic the value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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