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Well the short answer is no. I have not done this. I've stacked in two SATA drives at 320 gigs and 160 gigs and not had any trouble. That put me at 480 gigs total but I'm not even sure if there was a cap on that particular system.
You are right to not trust Dell in that regard. I just recently learned (and almost regretted) that if you buy one of their servers don't plan on much freedom for IRQ's and adding devices you just won't have the option. All I wanted was dual video cards and getting them to work proved to be an exercise in patience and practice. I think I shot 40 hours right out my behind getting them to work (and I did get them to work, even though Dell said it wouldn't).
So I at least cannot give you a definite answer but hopefully others can. I'd be willing to bet a silver dollar you should be able to drop one in and not have any trouble. But certainly don't try that because my remarks inspired you to do so. You'd have take that decision under your own advice... if you do go that route keep a bottle of Advil close by and you should be okay. "Numb the pain and the brain will follow."
Call me sadistically curious but reply back here if you take the plunge and let me know your results.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. - Gladiator
I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
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The Optiplex GX620 isn't "protected" against adding a larger drive, as I've seen a 750GB drive and a second 160GB added into one, although of course, there were additional cables required, since the chassis only has power cables supplied to the first and second drives, so an extra power cable and 2 data cables were needed.
Now if only they'd let me borrow the 750GB drive  ...
Steve S
Developer for hire
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Oh please guys, my boss is gonna kick my @$$, what do I do with this:
Limited or no connectivity , I keep getting this on the local area connection and I just cant fix it..
please help
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Is it wireless if so just move it closer to you computer.
If it isn't have you had a look on google to find out what might be wrong?
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have you tried:
* Stop connection first
* Resume it through command promt or else.
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Hiral Shah
India
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ok fixed, just disabled a stupid firewall "no need to name it!"
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I am in the middle of writing a program that calculates the performance of different algorithsm. Im trying to implement a class that can estimate the peformance before any calculations have taken place. Obviously RAM/CPU speed will have a very big influence, so i have taken numerous calculations using machines of different specifications, however i need to fit a Trend Line to it. Does anyone know an 'estimate' to RAM/CPU Performance i.e Log, Exponential, linear?
Thanks MH
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Measuring CPU is easier than measuring ram. You create an algorithm without heavy memory access and a loop calling it. now you can either set a constant loop count and measure the time to execute, or you create a multithreaded application and interrupt the loop after a fixed timeout.
RAM is more difficult, as you need to access it using CPU instructions... That means, that the score will strongly depend on the kind of algorithm you use to measure the performance!
I'd suggest using SSE instructions, since you can bypass the CPU cache that way. MOVNTQ for example.
Most benchmarks I've seen use a linear scale to measure both CPU and RAM. But that also depends on how to evaluate the score with you application.
Don't try it, just do it! 
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I am writing a program that can recognize which file system is being used on an USB drive when USB is plugged in.(FAT 16, FAT 32 or NTFS)
How can I do it?
Do you have any solutions for this proplem?
Thank you !
Nothing Is Impossible !
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GetVolumeInformation is the API you need. If it's a memory stick, odds are good it will be FAT of some kind.
Steve S
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what is file system for usb drive.
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You will usually find that USB pen drives are preformatted with FAT or FAT32 by the manufacturer. You can, however, format them with other filesystems.
The FS of choice is FAT32, though: MacOS, *nix and Windows can all handle it.
With USB hard drives, it depends on your mode of purchase: If you purchase the IDE2USB interface seperate from the drive (or if you are upgrading an older HDD), you might not have any partitioning or formatting on your disk at all.
If you buy an off-the-shelf solution, you might end up with an HDD preformatted with NTFS or HFS+, depending on the sticker on the box ("Mac-Ready"/"Vista-Ready"/etc).
Cheers,
Sebastian
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i want to create file system on usb .how to do that.
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Plug the thing into the machine, wait for the drive latter to show up in My Computer. Right-click it and pick Format. You have your choice of NTFS and FAT32 on an XP box.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Hello!
I have installed vista on my hard drive but then I decided to buy a new larger hard drive and transfer eveything from old HD to new one. So I am seeking for a "from HD to HD cloning" software for XP/VISTA.
If you know any would you please let me know.
Thanks. 
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Are the built in utilities of any use to you? Take a look at the 'Backup and restore' option in the control panel, there you are able to make a full system backup which should enable you copy the system to a new partition.
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Symantec Norton ghost 10
Or google search 'hard disk cloning software'
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Acronis Disk Director Suite and Acronis True Image have a cloning product that I use frequently to do just what you are asking. You can even make an image using Acronis True Image and restore it onto a larger drive. It's very easy to do. Will take about 1 minute to set up and it will run for 10 to 30 minutes depending on the size of the image and the speed of the system.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. - Gladiator
I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
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I am fixing a computer for someone and I have the following problem:
I can format a hard drive plugged into the slave IDE port from within Windows itself, but when I try to ghost an image onto the drive plugged in exactly the same way, it fails. Also, if I try to install Windows on the drive, it gets to the end of the format then tells me the disk cannot be used.
I have had this same thing happen with two different drives, both failing the same way.
Could the motherboard be bad? Any other ideas?
Thanks!
David
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Sounds like the CDROM is bad. Replace the CDROM and the IDE cable connecting it and see if it gets better. If not it might be a motherboard but I'd only be convinced of that after doing the above on the HDD itself.
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Thanks, but I am not using the CDROM, for the imaging, I am ghosting from one hard disk to another, and using the floppy to boot into ghost.
The only time I use the CD is for the XP install.
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Can you move the drive you want to image to a different machine and try the same thing?
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Yeah, that was the next thing I was going to try - installing both drives in another machine and doing the imaging from there.
You know, the thing that sucks about this whole thing is that because hard disks are so big now, it takes forever to do anything with the disks.
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I always start with a 20 gig partition and then use Acronis or some other tool to expand the partition when I'm done.
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I've done that too with Partition Commander. This particular drive has about 50 gig of stuff on it, so ghosting it would be best - copy it and expand it into the new one. But, like I said before, I haven't been able to get it to work with the two drives I have tried.
I guess if it would work in another machine, I should at least replace the IDE cable since I have a couple of spares.
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