Advanced HDD Issues Linkfram
Hard Disk Drive Reference Section @ Storagereview.com (reprinted from the PC Guide link below)
Including:
A Brief History of the Hard Disk Drive
Construction and Operation of the Hard Disk Drive
Hard Disk Geometry and Low-Level Data Structures
Hard Disk Performance, Quality and Reliability
Hard Disk BIOS and Capacity Factors
Hard Disk Interfaces and Configuration
Hard Disk Logical Structures
Hard Disk Drives A the PC Guide (same as above)
PC Guide Topic Index
ATA-ATAPI.COM
How it Works Document series (HTML and Zip available)
Including:
Hale's ATA FAQ
Fact and Fiction
CHS Translation
Partition Tables
Masterboot Record
DOS Floppy Disk Boot Sector
OS2 Boot Sector
Computer Boot Sequence @ Mossywell.com
Including:
Hard Disk Geometry
How the Physical Disk is accessed
The Standards
How we used to access the disk: CHS, ECHS, Revised ECHS, Assisted LBA, LBA
How we now access the disk: LBA and Extended INT13h
Better than LBA and Extended INT13h: Direct Disk Access (DMA)
The BIOS
The Master Boot Record \ The Master Boot Record Code
Partition Boot Sector and Clusters \ Partition Boot Sector Code
FAT Locations \ The FAT in Detail
The Root Directory \ The Root and Other Directories in Detail
IO.SYS with MS-DOS
NTLDR with Win NT (W2K, XP)
NTFS vs FAT
The NTFS Filesystem Comprehensive Overview
Fat System Guide
NTFS Basics
Converting FAT32 to NTFS (you should really read this)
Default Cluster Sizes (chart)
Windows 2000 and the Boot @ Windows & .NET Magazine
Inside the Boot Process Part 1 (NTFS) & Part 2 @ Windows & .NET Magazine
Partition Strategies @ Radified.com
Fdisk Guide @ Radified.com
Bootdisks
Ultimate Boot CD A MUST HAVE
Bootdisk.com
ETPlanet
TCP/IP bootdisks +
Ultimatebootcd
Bootable cd image with: Hard Disk Diagnosis, Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi) 3.50, PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.06, Data Lifeguard (Western Digital) 10.0, SeaTools Desktop (Seagate) 1.06.02, Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu) 6.10, SHDIAG (Samsung) 1.25, Hard Disk Management, IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 1.90, Ranish Partition Manager 2.43, AutoClave (HDD Wiper) 0.3, Partition Resizer 1.3.4, SavePart (Partition Saver) 2.70, XFDISK (Extended FDISK) 0.9.3beta, g4u (HDD Cloning) 1.12, HDClone (Free Edition) 1.0, TestDisk 4.4, Memory Diagnosis, Memtest86 3.0, Linux-based Rescue Disks, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor 030426, Tom's Boot Disk 2.0.103, Recovery Is Possible (RIP) 2.0, RIP Linux Rescue Disk, and AIDA16 (System information) 2.08, F-Prot Antivirus for DOS (Personal use only), Virus definition: 22 Aug 2003, Macro virus definitions have been disabled so that everything can fit onto a 2.88MB virtual floppy boot image. Includes read-only freeware version of NTFSDOS 3.14a, Active NTFS Reader for DOS, Thanx to styckx who originally posted this
Boot Managers
Gujin
Understanding MultiBooting and Booting Windows from an Extended Partition
Multibooting Principles
XOSL opensource freeware
Smart Boot Manager opensource freeware
System Commander $
OS-BS FreeBSD boot manager opensource freeware
Ranish Partition Manager freeware
GNU GRUB opensource freeware
LILO Linux Bootmanager opensource freeware
Solaris boot manager
Masterbooter shareware
Linux-NTFS Project
Microsoft Disk Reference
How Windows 2000 Assigns, Reserves, and Stores Drive Letters
Diskpart Utility
HOW TO: Change Drive Letter Assignments in Windows XP
Additional Reference
Serial ATA (SATA)
ATA EIDE
ATAPI-ATA- EIDE History
EIDE vs SCSI
SCSI FAQ
SCSI FAQ
Fibre Channel
List of Partition IDs
Error codes for Ghost
Performances issues and Tradeoffs in Configuring for multiple devices
Independent Master Slave Timing
Dynamic Disks
Description of Disk Groups in Windows Disk Management
Dynamic vs. Basic Storage in Windows 2000
Basic and Dynamic Disks @ Windows & .net Magazine
HOW TO: Recover an Accidentally Deleted NTFS or FAT32 Dynamic Volume
Dynamic Disk Hardware Limitations (No firewire, USB, removable or laptop)
HOW TO: Set Up Fault-Tolerant Sets on Dynamic Disks in Windows 2000
Dynamic Disk Numbering and the DmDiag.exe Tool
HOW TO: Regenerate a Dynamic Mirrored Volume in Windows 2000
Restrictions on Extending or Spanning Simple Volumes on Dynamic Disks
Limits of Dynamic Disks in Windows 2000
LDMDump (Freeware utility) @ sysinternals
LDM Database @ Linux-NTFS project
LDM FAQ @ Linux-NTFS project
Recovery Reference
Recovering NTFS Boot Sector on NTFS Partitions
NTFS.com from basics to recovery concepts
Boot Sector, Master File Table, Data Integrity ect
NTFS Advanced Studies
NTFS Volume Management and HKLM\System\DiskKey
NTFS Boot INI Options Reference
NTFS Defragmenting
Inside W2K NTFS Part 1
Inside W2K NTFS Part 2
Exploring NTFS On-Disk Structures
Inside Storage Management, Part 1
Inside storage Management Part 2 Basic vs Dynamic Disks
Inside Encrypting File System Part 1
Inside Encrypting File System Part 2
Inside Memory Management Paging Files
Additional NT Articles at Windows & .NET Magazine By Mark Russinovich Including: Crash Dump Analysis, Inside Win32 Services, Windows 2000 Kernal, Scalability Enhancements, Management Interface, Reliability Enhancements, and the Registry.
Additional NTFS Articals and Utilities atSysinternals
This post has been edited by Ice Czar: Jul 6 2004, 07:05 PM
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