Recent content by tom07

I have been fighting this issue for a while now but recently I've been trying to track it down as it has become very annoying. Here's the setup I am currently using on my Windows system when doing some development (the live server is on Unix and there are no such issues): * XP Professional...

I have a web application that needs to determine if a user-entered name is a valid nameserver. In most cases I can do this with a two-step process: Check that I can look up the nameserver name and get an IP; Issue a UDP server status request (opcode 2) to that IP on port 53 and see if I get a...

Thanks for the tips. That's pretty much what I had done (I had already tried deleting the root hubs, though I didn't mention it in my first message). I had not done the low-level format (how long would that take on 200 GB??), but I had run the WD diagnostic quick-test which took about half an...

I have an external USB drive which consists of a WD 200GB EIDE drive in an Ahanix D-Vine external case. Windows can see the drive in the Disk Manager but when I tried to partition and format it there, after a few minutes I got the following error (at this point the partitioning was done)...