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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (3434)	11/4/2009 12:49:03 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4893

My primary machine at home had a hd fail. I haven't backed anything up from it, but used it as a server backup device. When I added the drive and did the upgrade to Vista it rewrote the boot sector on my XP drive so I can't revert to it. I just discovered the Sony DVD burner is toast so I can't do an upgrade on the XP drive. Compared to the deep stuff Bob has been wading through my problems are nothing. I have been using a server as a workstation for the time being until my new drive and optical device come in. My question is this? Why is it the newest drive that failed? The eight year old drives on my oldest server at home are still going strong.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (3434)	11/4/2009 9:12:15 PM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4893

They're about the same. The former reduces cash coming in. The latter increases cash going out. Okay, the same just at face value. Helluva lot more expensive to get a Cat 973's engine rebuilt and electrics and hydraulics gone through. This'll end up in a blurb later, too, but there are probably going to be sporadic "access denied" type outages the weekend after this coming one. I'm out of town this weekend plus I need time to research ways to get this work done with minimal outages. The database isn't in danger or anything. It's simply extremely fragmented, which is clobbering performance and causing other problems behind the scenes. We should be seeing fewer of the timeouts, etc, people reported earlier unless there's a really heavy maintenance job running. I'm pretty sure I rolled out this version of SI in November of 2004. Anyone able to find the exact date so we'll know when the 5th anniversary of it is, unless I'm mistaken and I rolled it out in October?