Creating a Recovery Set Utility Hangs. Expect better from HP please!!

Hello. I need help please in creating a recovery set for my hp envy dv7 laptop. The issue I'm having with the software is that it doesn't seem to recognize the USB flash drive that I purchased especially for the recovery set. It's a 32gb capacity so within the limits of the reccomendation and works fine with other programs.
If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be very grateful. This laptop has been crashing recently and I would feel more at ease knowing I had some kind of help to fall back on.
Thanks in advance guys!!

I checked the instructions here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01867124&lc=en&cc=ca&dlc=en#N1014
It warns of two things
1) Use a storage device that is larger than the size of the source files, but not larger than 32GB. ( which the one you are using meets this)
2) Also, USB flash drives that are branded with the Windows 8 compatible logo do not work. (maybe this is the problem?)
One could also use DVD's
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My hp support assistance has suggest me to create a recovery sets.
I has a problem with my recovery manager software,when i click on create a recovery set,nothing happen.
There is no message which appeared,nothing
Can someone help me please

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This is the first time that i use this program concerning recovery partition,i has not made any change in the recovery partition because i has never enter this part in my pc.
My pc is still in warranty,thank for your help.
OK. That is good.
It means that you can actually use the recovery manager, when required, by pressing the power button and then tapping the F11 key.
You are very welcome.
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Create a Recovery Set?

Still have the message 'Create a Recovery Set' under Updates & Tuneups. My PC seems to be working OK. Is it necessary to create a recovery set as the techs where I bought the Notebook said "no need as it's built in"?
Have a Pavilion Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Product No. F6C64PA#ABG.
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It would be very wise to create a usb recovery flash drive.
It is the copy of the OS and drivers that you paid for and the best method to recover the operating system to a new hard disk if the original one fails.
The techs at the place where you bought it gave you poor advice.
I highly recommend that you go with the usb recovery media. Sandisk flash drives don't work. Don't use flash drives with the Windows 8 logo on them.
Follow the instructions on the following HP web document to create a recovery image.
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Trying to create a recovery set

HI
I have a HP pavilion g series laptop with a big fat red exclamation mark on the HP support assistant.
Says I need to create a recovery set. Went out a bought a brand new 32g sandisk flash drive.When I insert it computer says the capacity of the inserted drive is insufficient. Have tried it in all the ports and same message
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When requesting assistance, please provide the complete model name and/or product number of the HP computer in question. HP/Compaq makes thousands of models of computers that are all different. Without this information it may be difficult or impossible to assist you in resolving your issue.
You may not be selecting the correct media location in the recovery manager or the USB stick may be to small. You can also burn DVD+R instead. Make sure they are high quality and major name brand.
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I’m about to create a recovery set for my new Spectre ultrabook on a flash drive. I’d like to then copy the recovery image to a drive on another PC so I can free up the flash drive for other use. Is this doable? I.e., if I need to restore, will I be able to copy the image back to the flash drive and have it work? Are any special tricks involved?

Hi,
Not that simple, copy won't work. By the way, the Flash drive for Recovery is write protected.
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Create Document Set with custom Create Only permission set

Here is the situation. We have a requirement where my customer wants to create document sets, however, document set/document level permissions are required.
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Hi,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to know if there is an actual requirement to have EDIT permissions when creating a Document Set and is there a way to setup permissions on a library for all NT Authenticated users and prevent
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For the first question, per my knowledge, if a user is given the Add Items permission, he/she can create a document set in SharePoint.
However, there is an error “access denied” after the document set is created. It is due to the user has no permission to access the page which SharePoint will redirect the user to after finishing creating the document set.
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/spke/archive/2010/04/09/configure-item-level-permissions-for-document-libraries-sharepoint-2010-edition.aspx
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Pavilion dm1 Making A Recovery Set Using USB Flash Drive

I have a Pavilion dm1 for which I have tried to create a Recovery Set using a USB flash drive. However, on starting the Recovery Manager, I find I can only use discs......but the Pavilion dm1 has NO disc drive and no facility therefore to burn discs!!! Am I wrong to be completely puzzled by this? Does anyone have any idea at all, other than to purchase an external disc drive which I really do not want to do?? HP will sell me a Recovery Set but again ONLY ON DISC!! Seems absurd that a piece of kit that has no disc drive will only be able to be recovered using a disc! I confess to being a bit computer illiterate so maybe I am missing something. Any help most gratefully accepted.
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ORA-12709: error while loading create database character set after upgrade

Dear All
i m getting ORA-12709: error while loading create database character set, After upgraded the database from 10.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.3 in ebusiness suit env.
current application version 12.0.6
please help me to resolve it.
SQL> startup;
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 1.2831E+10 bytes
Fixed Size 2171296 bytes
Variable Size 2650807904 bytes
Database Buffers 1.0133E+10 bytes
Redo Buffers 44785664 bytes
ORA-12709: error while loading create database character set
-bash-3.00$ echo $ORA_NLS10
/u01/oracle/PROD/db/teche_st/11.2.0/nls/data/9idata
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/oracle/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin:$PATH
export PERL5LIB=$ORACLE_HOME/perl/lib/5.10.0:$ORACLE_HOME/perl/site_perl/5.10.0
export ORA_NLS10=/u01/oracle/PROD/db/teche_st/11.2.0/nls/data/9idata
export ORACLE_SID=PROD
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total 56912
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-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 957 Jan 15 16:05 lx00002.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 959 Jan 15 16:05 lx00003.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 984 Jan 15 16:05 lx00004.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 968 Jan 15 16:05 lx00005.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 962 Jan 15 16:05 lx00006.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 960 Jan 15 16:05 lx00007.nlb
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-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 940 Jan 15 16:05 lx00009.nlb
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-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 998 Jan 15 16:05 lx0000d.nlb
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-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 926 Jan 15 16:05 lx0000f.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1.0K Jan 15 16:05 lx00010.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 958 Jan 15 16:05 lx00011.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 956 Jan 15 16:05 lx00012.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1005 Jan 15 16:05 lx00013.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 970 Jan 15 16:05 lx00014.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 950 Jan 15 16:05 lx00015.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1.0K Jan 15 16:05 lx00016.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 957 Jan 15 16:05 lx00017.nlb
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 932 Jan 15 16:05 lx00018.nlb
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-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 953 Jan 15 16:05 lx0001c.nlb
Starting up:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options.
ORACLE_HOME = /u01/oracle/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0
System name: SunOS
Node name: proddb3.zakathouse.org
Release: 5.10
Version: Generic_147440-19
Machine: sun4u
Using parameter settings in server-side spfile /u01/oracle/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0/dbs/spfilePROD.ora
System parameters with non-default values:
processes = 200
sessions = 400
timed_statistics = TRUE
event = ""
shared_pool_size = 416M
shared_pool_reserved_size= 40M
nls_language = "american"
nls_territory = "america"
nls_sort = "binary"
nls_date_format = "DD-MON-RR"
nls_numeric_characters = ".,"
nls_comp = "binary"
nls_length_semantics = "BYTE"
memory_target = 11G
memory_max_target = 12G
control_files = "/u01/oracle/PROD/db/apps_st/data/cntrl01.dbf"
control_files = "/u01/oracle/PROD/db/tech_st/10.2.0/dbs/cntrl02.dbf"
control_files = "/u01/oracle/PROD/db/apps_st/data/cntrl03.dbf"
db_block_checksum = "TRUE"
db_block_size = 8192
compatible = "11.2.0.0.0"
log_archive_dest_1 = "LOCATION=/u01/oracle/PROD/db/apps_st/data/archive"
log_archive_format = "%t_%s_%r.dbf"
log_buffer = 14278656
log_checkpoint_interval = 100000
log_checkpoint_timeout = 1200
db_files = 512
db_file_multiblock_read_count= 8
db_recovery_file_dest = "/u01/oracle/fast_recovery_area"
db_recovery_file_dest_size= 14726M
log_checkpoints_to_alert = TRUE
dml_locks = 10000
undo_management = "AUTO"
undo_tablespace = "APPS_UNDOTS1"
db_block_checking = "FALSE"
session_cached_cursors = 500
utl_file_dir = "/usr/tmp"
utl_file_dir = "/usr/tmp"
utl_file_dir = "/u01/oracle/PROD/db/tech_st/10.2.0/appsutil/outbound"
utl_file_dir = "/u01/oracle/PROD/db/tech_st/10.2.0/appsutil/outbound/PROD_proddb3"
utl_file_dir = "/usr/tmp"
plsql_code_type = "INTERPRETED"
plsql_optimize_level = 2
job_queue_processes = 2
cursor_sharing = "EXACT"
parallel_min_servers = 0
parallel_max_servers = 8
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audit_file_dest = "/u01/oracle/admin/PROD/adump"
db_name = "PROD"
open_cursors = 600
pga_aggregate_target = 1G
workarea_size_policy = "AUTO"
optimizer_secure_view_merging= FALSE
aq_tm_processes = 1
olap_page_pool_size = 4M
diagnostic_dest = "/u01/oracle"
max_dump_file_size = "20480"
Tue Jan 15 16:16:02 2013
PMON started with pid=2, OS id=18608
Tue Jan 15 16:16:02 2013
PSP0 started with pid=3, OS id=18610
Tue Jan 15 16:16:03 2013
VKTM started with pid=4, OS id=18612 at elevated priority
VKTM running at (10)millisec precision with DBRM quantum (100)ms
Tue Jan 15 16:16:03 2013
GEN0 started with pid=5, OS id=18616
Tue Jan 15 16:16:03 2013
DIAG started with pid=6, OS id=18618
Tue Jan 15 16:16:03 2013
DBRM started with pid=7, OS id=18620
Tue Jan 15 16:16:03 2013
DIA0 started with pid=8, OS id=18622
Tue Jan 15 16:16:03 2013
MMAN started with pid=9, OS id=18624
Tue Jan 15 16:16:03 2013
DBW0 started with pid=10, OS id=18626
Tue Jan 15 16:16:03 2013
LGWR started with pid=11, OS id=18628
Tue Jan 15 16:16:03 2013
CKPT started with pid=12, OS id=18630
Tue Jan 15 16:16:03 2013
SMON started with pid=13, OS id=18632
Tue Jan 15 16:16:04 2013
RECO started with pid=14, OS id=18634
Tue Jan 15 16:16:04 2013
MMON started with pid=15, OS id=18636
Tue Jan 15 16:16:04 2013
MMNL started with pid=16, OS id=18638
DISM started, OS id=18640
ORACLE_BASE from environment = /u01/oracle
Tue Jan 15 16:16:08 2013
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
ORA-12709 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT...

ORA-12709 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT...Do you have any trace files generated at the time you get this error?
Please see these docs.
ORA-12709: WHILE STARTING THE DATABASE [ID 1076156.6]
Upgrading from 9i to 10gR2 Fails With ORA-12709 : Error While Loading Create Database Character Set [ID 732861.1]
Ora-12709 While Trying To Start The Database [ID 311035.1]
ORA-12709 when Mounting the Database [ID 160478.1]
How to Move From One Database Character Set to Another at the Database Level [ID 1059300.6]
Thanks,
Hussein

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Hello,
I recently purchased a Late 2005 Power Mac G5. My problem is, that the hard drive is 250 MB and only one partition appears in the disk utility of 37 GB. I try to add a new partition, but it hangs on "modifying partition map". Any Help?
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Main Disk
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Type : Disk
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Device Tree : first-boot/@0:0
Bay : "A (upper)"
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Ejectable : No
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
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Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
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Have you tried doing this first:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
If there are no errors reported then try the routine I suggested rather than trying to expand the existing partition just try to Add a second partition as you have tried before.
If this still gets you nowhere, then I'm afraid you're left with having to repartition from scratch. You'll want to backup the existing files if you don't wish to lose them. I would then do this:
Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
When the above is completed quit DU and return to the installer. Complete the OS X installation.

Disk Utility hangs while initializing internal hard disk in Core Duo iMac

I have a 20" Core Duo iMac. Recently the internal hard drive crashed ("invalid B-tree node size" or something reported when Disk Utility tries and fails to repair it). I have all my data on an external hard disk used as a Time Machine volume, so recovery is not my issue. Initially I picked the write zeroes once security option and chose to erase the internal hard disk. Realizing this would take too long, I clicked on skip, and Disk Utility appeared to hang. I quit and restarted Disk Utility, and chose the "don't erase" security option, but when I go to erase the drive it appears to hang while at the "partitioning" stage and doesn't seem to get any further. There is motion in the progress bar, but no additional progress after about an hour. Disk Utility shows the disk but no volumes underneath it (whereas immediately after the crash, it showed an unmountable volume labeled "disk0s2").
Why would Disk Utility be taking so long and not making any progress? How can I reformat this disk if Disk Utility is not able to? Incidentally, I am running the Disk Utility that comes with OS X 10.4.8, since that is the OS X version on my portable hard drive that I booted from. I also tried using Drive Genius to initialize the hard disk, but it also appeared to hang with no progress.

It is possible the drive has failed, but to be sure start by turning off the computer. Wait five minutes. Then do this:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger or Leopard.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the drop down menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (only required for Intel Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Be sure to boot from the OS X installer DVD, not a backup clone.

Creating a NetInstall Set for '10 MacBook

I am attempting to create a NetInstall set for a brand new Intel MacBook running 10.6. I have used Bombich's NetRestore Helper in the past for set creations but the last version (3.4.6) hangs and will never complete the set creation. Is there any other way to create a set for a 10.6 machine? I've looked into Deploy Studio but I don't have anything set up yet and I'd like to continue with my current setup for the time being. I'm running 10.5.8 server and all other machine types boot fine for NetInstall purposes. Just the newest machines have trouble. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Last I heard, Bombich's tool didn't work in SnowLeopard. You can use Apple's System Image Utility, but you'll have to download the 10.6.3 Server Admin Tools and install in on a Snow Leopard client system.

HP Envy Laptop (Win8.1) Can't Create USB Recovery Drive

Hello fellow HP PC users;
I was wondering if anyone with a DVD drive equiped laptop had successfully created a USB Recovery Set?
I just spent the last 2 days trying to do this on my new laptop - to no avail (HP nag messaged me that it was important to copy the D:/ drive recovery partition to a USB or DVD discs) . I'm not big on CD/DVD backups as, in the past, I've experienced unwanted failures when previousl attempting a factory restore, so I wanted to use a USB drive for this backup. The HP utility for recovery disc creation only produced a gold spinning wheel/disc when a USB drive was inserted and this continued for hrs. Several tries with different USBs and ports produced similar non-results.
Today I spent an hour with Roger and Siva of HP Tech Support. I initially gave Roger a list of all of the things I had tried and I think we hit it off, as he was particularly excited about the stuff I knew, that he was unaware of. He promptly agreed that I had done everything possible to resolve the issue and he said he would send me a USB Recovery Set. This had to be authorized by his Supervisor Siva. After a half an hour on hold Siva came on the line to confirm my mailing info and said that he was authorizing the shipping of a set of recovery DVDs and that he would wave the normal $40 charge. When I asked why he wasn't sending me a USB copy, he said that because my laptop came with a DVD drive he was only authorized to mail DVDs. Exhausted, I capitulated and said "O.K. then .... go ahead and make my day and send me the DVDs!" Nontheless, I will go to bed crying for the next few nights because I wasn't able to make/get a USB copy.
If anyone has any other info on this problem I would be interested to here about it.
Thanks, stillgolfing
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Windows 8.1 64 bit
Intel 17 - 4700MQ CPU @ 2.4 Ghz
8gb Ram, 1 Tb Hard drive
Vid1 = Intel HD Graphic 4600
Vid2 = Nvidia GeForce GT740M

You are allowed to "make" only one set. You haven't made one yet.
I just created my Recovery USB for Envy 15t- j100 using>> PNY Turbo 3.0 - so it is not limited to 2.0 flash drives.
I first tried with a Sandisk Extreme 3.0 which produced the same thing that you experienced... no matter what I tried. (I actually was just testing it since many had reported not being able to use that model)
I did discover that even with the PNY it would only work if I waited to insert it when Recovery Manager was at the screen where you choose usb or cd/dvd.
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Creating RAID5 with Disk Utility?

I have three new 4TB drives and wanted to set them up in my old MacPro (Early2008) as RAID5. This should give me 8TB with one redundant disk. However, I don't see a RAID5 option in Apple Disk Utility (Version 13, in OS X 10.10.1).
In doing some digging in the Knowledge Base it suggests first creating a concatenated set with 2 of the drives and then creating a mirrored RAID set with the concatenated set and the third drive.
Not sure if this is correct or will achieve what I want. Does this provide the software equivalent of RAID5 with 8TB and one redundant drive? Thanks for any help.

Disk Utility does not do RAID 5. And there is serious question about whether anyone should be using RAID 5.
RAID 5 gets its redundancy by calculating a permutation (XOR or Checksum or similar) of the bits in two blocks, and recording that as the third block. If any of the three are lost, the other two can (in theory) be used to recover the missing data for the third.
This takes some TIME to compute the check data on Write, and may take Time to check on Read. Because of this, most RAID 5 setups include a RAID controller, both to reduce the time required, and to pre-acknowlege the receipt of proper data to be written to the drives momentarily.
The Apple RAID card (NOT recommended today) acknowledges Writes and allows the System to proceed when the data hit the RAID card, and relies on its Backup Battery to maintain the data if the power fails at that moment (before the data are actually written to the drives). Mac Pro RAID card was a nice concept when it was invented, but it has not been updated in about a decade, and is showing its age. Everything about dealing with its Backup Battery today has become evil.
The tragic flaw with RAID 5 is when a drive fails. Now you are working without a net. Everything slows WAY down, and the drives work extra hard to rebuild the missing data, because all those checksums have to be re-computed and re-written to rebuild the replaced drive. And if another drive fails while the rebuild is happening, the entire set can blow to pieces without any hope of recovery. With drives getting larger and larger without substantially improving their 'unrecoverable errors per bits read', it is becoming increasingly likely that during the course of a re-build, an uncorrectable error will occur, possibly putting the entire array out of business.

How long does it take to create a recovery disc?

Hi!!!
I have just bought a Toshiba Portege T110.
I tried the first time round and cancelled at disc 4 bec i was out of writeable disc.
Today i am on my 2nd try. I have mgt disc 1-3. When at disc 4~~it says is creating Windon Recovery Environment (64bit) and recording. But the progress bar has been hanging there for the abt 1-2hrs and still not done yet~~
I tried to cancel the program, but it says is recording and advise me not to cancel as it will take a long time.
Can some kind soul advise if this is normal? How long does it takes? If not, what could be the problem?
Thank you in advance!!!

Hi all~~
i have the answer to my question alrdy~~
i accidentatly canceled the copying after waiting over 2 hr on disc 4~~
I restarted the process this morning~~~as i have alrdy done disc 1-3~~i am able to start at disc 4 straight away!!!
Disc 4 took less then 10 mins to complete.
So guys~~ the whole process from disc 1 to 4 takes less than 1 hr.
All the best to you guys!!
And Merry Christmas!!

Disk Utility Hangs during format

Yes, I've seen a hundred other posts on this but all have been archived with no solution.
It seems very likely there is a 10.4 problem. When I try to format a 160GB drive connected via USB Disk Utility hangs and never completes. I have tried to partition it as well with no luck.
Is there a fix? Is Apple working on the problem? Is there a workaround? Even a commandline fix would be acceptable.

This is ridiculous. I have tried 4 different physical drives in 4 different physical enclosures (3 different brands) and it still hangs Disk Utility.
I know I'm not the only one with this problem. What the **** is going on? I can't format a disk and therefore I can't use it. This is absolutely unacceptable.
Sometimes my machine hangs in such a way that I can't even reboot it, it requires a physical power down.
I have been forced to format these on a Windows machine with FAT32 (using a 3rd party app to get past the GB limitation MS sets). I don't want FAT32, I want HFS+. But I can find no other way to do this in Tiger as it ALWAYS hangs regardless of drive, enclosure, filesystem type, size, number of partitions, etc, etc.
Is OS X truly this bad that it can't even format a drive properly? Am I really going to have to rely on Windows and FAT32 whenever I want to format?

Creating a Recovery Set Utility Hangs. Expect better from HP please!!

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