> From: Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have two seperate questions, the first may relate to Ronn's problems. > 1. Over the last year my niece and nephew have gone through four hard > drives. These were name brand, WD, store bought hard drives. Two of the > failures were instantanious, two built up over weeks until it was obvious > that something was wrong. Is there any notices about hard drive failures? > The real question: what do you experts do to look ahead for problems? I know > I can't get teenagers to do any weekly checks, but could these problems been > avoided?
Norton utilities. Not much you can do against a head crash tho [besides keep several complete backups]. The C: partition on one of my maxtor hd's just suddenly had a head crash one day (while loading windows 98). Took down almost all of windows files that were still loading, and norton utilities could recover _nothing_. But I had backups of backups of backups, so I was able to replace all the affected files. > > 2. From Alberto's message, I was wondering about something. From the little > work I did with NT, it seemed like passwords were hidden. If a user lost or > forgot his password, the only thing a sysadmin could do is reset the users > system, the user had to input a new password. The sysadmin couldn't see what > the actual password was. I take it that this is not true accross all > systems? Obviously if I lost my password for Amazon.com, it could be > e-mailed to me, but I just figured that some hidden mechanism was involved > in this. My password was kept on the system but no person other than me > could see it. Just wondering. No way to find out what a NT password is. That is as it should be [tm].
