This is the Standlone Hard Drive Manager's website for Senior Projects (Spring, 2009). The website will provide detailed information about the project sponsored by PC-Doctor, Inc as well as containing other relevant information used/created/designed during the project implementation phase. Documentation that elaborates each stage/phase of the project from concept to design then implementation can be found under the "Media" tab. Other features found on this website are pictures of our physical system, screenshots of our GUI (QT interface), a poster (to provide a brief insight to our project to students that roam around the hallways of the SEM building), and a video that demonstrates and explains the system, the software, and how it brings the project as one functional unit. An additional feature to the website is the "Team Bios" tab that gives a brief background of the team members involved and there areas of expertise that benefits this project. Feel free to make suggestions by emailing one of the team members that can be found under the "Contacts" tab. Other class projects can be found on the CSE Dr. Dascalu's CPE/CS 426 course page.

We are currently working on setting up the CrystalFontz LCD to display menus to be user friendly on a little 20x4 screen. The LCD should also be able to listen for user input (button press signals) to execute an appropriate action and also return the results in a readable format. We are also trying to add a new feature to the project by getting LCD to work on the Standalone Hard Drive Manager LiveCD, where the client can use any computer and perform the same operations without the physical system and can choose to see output through the LCD or through the QT interface. Though we are not implementing the PXE server, unfortunately, we are in essence going back to the drawing board trying to figure out how to implement this feature. Also with the LCD we are focusing on how to light up the LEDs on the LCD device to show the user that the operation is successfull, failure, in progress, or show warnings instead of using up screen space. We are also working on labeling and scrolling concepts to implement into the LCD to make it easier for the user to enter in a path or account name and easier for them to see the output results without having to read one to three words on every line, where a one line sentence is displayed on 15 lines. That would make anybody irritated.

We are tweaking the QT interface to enhance professionalism outlook of the GUI as well as to make the interface easy to use and locate objects/items. Also modifying the scripts from being written in one language to another to increase speed of executing operations. The main part that's currently in progress we're testing all the requirements set in the project proposal by PC-Doctor, Inc which is discussed in the first document under the "Media" tab.