Hi, ~ sorry if message appears twice. Google apparently delayed its postign for too long ~ I have been getting lots of lines in my dmesg dump looking like: ~ "APIC error on CPU0: 01(01)" ~ and then I occasionally see also errors looking like:

Hi, I have an external drive on my system which I store music and stuff on. Last night when I plugged the drive in on my XP box instead of the usual whiring followed by a directory scan dialog appeared it just span up but without the dialog. When I clicked on the drive in explorer (Z:) it asked me...

I've been looking at getting two Western Digital WD1600YS drives for a RAID 0.

While recovering from a C drive crash we inadvertently removed the partion from the D drive. We have not done anything else to D, no format or anything. It still shows as D in Windows Explorer but a message comes up that it needs to be formatted. Is there a way to restore the data that was on...

I have been making a fusion between 2 partitions and went i go to see an error ocurred and know my data is lost, can i recover or fix it. ?

Hi, My 500GB Maxtor Shared Storage drive died after only 6 months. Maxtor's solution is to just swap it over. This of course does not recover my data. Another problem is the data on the disc will be available to be recovered by other parties. Instructions I found at...

bloody SATA connectors (electrical)! i've come across connection issues with my (admittedly limited) use of SATA drives, both data and power, most recently power what an aggrevation! are others seeing this?

I'm currently using a Seagate 300GB SATA-II 7200.9 as my boot drive. I just picked up a WD Raptor 74GB (WD74ADFD) to replace it as the boot drive (will use a new install of Win XP Home OEM). But would it be better(faster) to just get two 160GB SATA-II 7200RPM hard drives (Seagate, WD or...

Hi, My 500GB Maxtor Shared Storage drive died after only 6 months. Maxtor's solution is to just swap it over. This of course does not recover my data. Another problem is the data on the disc will be available to be recovered by other parties. Instructions I found at...

Hi, I recently bought a Hitachi 7K100 7200 RPM HDD for use on my IBM Thinkpad R51. It's been working without problems, but when I ran a benchmark test in HD Tune it produced some strange results. It at a pretty high transfer rate, but periodically it dipped extremely low (1.0 mb/sec). The...

Hi everyone, Quick question: Given that it is now possible to have software-based RAID arrays which are able to be grown using mdadm on Linux, what advantage, if any, does LVM actually provide? And yes, I am aware that the filesystem does not grow with mdadm's --grow command, but tools like...

Hi, I'm considering upgrading my IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad R51 w/ a Hitachi 7K100 7200 RPM 80GB hard drive. Has anyone used this drive on the R51 or a similar machine? How are these drives in general?

I did a really stupid thing. When my PC went weird, I bought a new one and failed to back up my important files. Well, actually, I think I did.. I just can't find where I put them. I gave the old PC away to some not for profit group but kep the hard drive in case I might want to use it in the...

For the last three weeks, after installing Service Pack 2 on my ThinkPad R40 (Service Pack 2 was necessary to run Windows MovieMaker successfully), I've gotten blue screen crashes on powering down. The error messages from MS indicate a conflict with something called "Direct Access Component,"...

I need to know if my Western Digital 160GB Drive (My Book Essential Edition) is compatible with a system that has been pre-installed with Microsoft Vista. Could anyone tell me if this external hard drive is vista capable?

Hi all, I am looking for a decentralized filesystem solution for non-enterprise use (lightweight) to replace several rsync-mirrored, software-based RAID-5 storage servers. I don't know if there's any actual solution out there which meets my fantasy, but here is some criteria that would be...

I want to buy an external USB case for one of my HD's so I can backup data onto it. There are a number to choose from, that's no problem, my question is what happens if I want to use the drive in say Europe where the voltage is 220/240 not 110... I don't know how easy it would be to get a...

Been having some strange PC problems lately. It's mostly new stuff(CPU,Mobo,HD,RAM)Mobo just came back from RMA(new). Is there a problem with the way this disk is partitioned? I lost everything but one folder from the E: partition. I had Quake 4 on there but that and a bunch of downloaded stuff...

are they F**kups or are they Memorex? You decide. Bought Memorex Travel Drive - usb thumb drive Used it exactly twice before it konked out. Tech support at memorex told me the drive was bad and they would replace it. This came from Michael Clancy, "Manager, Technical Support and Customer...

Is this right?When I boot up my PC the 2 Sata drives show on the boot screen as: IDE Ch2. Master LBA,ATA133 160gb AND IDE CH5.Master LBA,ATA133 250gb Im running W2k pro SP4 w/all current motherboard drivers. Motherboard is based on Nvidia Nforce 4 ultra chipset. Haven't used any SATA drives...