Obscure (rename or move it somewhere else) the windows directory on the 2nd drive, see what happens. "larrymoencurly" wrote in message ... Why does Windows 98SE work with one IDE HD in my system but not two, even...

Working on someone's ancient pcchips "computer from hell". I have googled myself into every single tweak possible to remove compatibility mode to no avail. (win95b) Computer has numerous problems too long to detail here. My only question: this protected mode driver is not even mentioned in...

I am not knowledgeable with respect to hardware and electronics, I have a Maxtor 92048D8 20Gb drive, which has failed recently. I will most probably throw it away, but before that, I'd like to get back some of the files that were stored on it :-) Any help will be appreciated. The drive is...

Someone is asking me to try to restore the data on the drive, I don't have it with me yet. How about the OS? Is it Linux or proprietary? TIA

I have a two disk setup in vmware. Disk0 has 2 partitions and disk1 has one. I've been meddling around with mbrtool and ranish partition manager, trying to convert disk1's primary partition to a logical drive inside one(and only) extended partition. So: disk0-primary - same disk0-extended ...

At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2. Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the opticals as...

I need to build a low use server running Windows 2003. I am looking at an Abit NF7-S and using 2 SATA drives in RAID1 (for redundancy) with the onboard RAID controller. I was considering 2 partitions on the hard drive. One for the OS and one for data. An externel USB2 hard drive would be used for...

I am looking for a vendor who can repair AIT-2 and AIT-3 tape drives, preferably a company with this type of drive as one of their specializations. I have a number of drives that hung during firmware upgrades, and the standard Sony tech support response to this condition is always one of: 1) We...

Hi, I am running Windows XP Pro with 1 Gig Ram and 120 Gig Internal Drive and 2.2Gig Hz P4. I recently purchased a second external USB 2.0 hard drive. My first was a Maxtor 40 Gig USB 2.0, and the second is a Western Digital USB 2.0. If I turn on both drives first and then the computer I get...

Hi, Mark. You realize, of course, that this is kind of like a religious question, or which car should I buy? I've been using personal computers since before we had hard drives, so my opinion is colored by my experience with legacy systems, continually upgraded over the years. Sometimes we have...

I understand that if disk drives aren't used in 6 months, they will freeze up. I suppose fresh on retail shelves they can last longer(?), but once one starts using them, they must be exercised regularly. The symptom of failure might be ka-chunk noise once per second as it can't even get started...

Does anyone know if AIT3 tapes can be used in an AIT2 drive? Thanks! -- Randy Starkey St. Louis, MO

"Bob Willard" wrote in message news:iqssc.37295$zw.22484@attbi_s01 Tod wrote: I believe current SATA controllers can only control 1 SATA hard drive per controller. Not just current, but for all time. Clueless, as always.

Just installed WD 200GB HD. Attempted the following: Create an extended partition on the 200GB encompassing the entire available space. Copy a dos logical partition from a WD 45GB HD to the extended area. The copied logical partition used all the area of the extended partition on the 45GB HD. ...

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What do you think about the new Western Digital 74GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 10,000 RPM? -- Ryan Atici To send email, remove _osmanli

I have a 40 gig harddrive that is formatted to a proprietary OS, and I also have a new 40 gig of the same model that is formatted fat32. I would like to get a boot floppy that would let me put the non-dos hd in drive C:, the new hd in drive D:, and then make an exact sector-2-sector clone. Wat...

I'm new to CompactFlash and digital photography. I'm considering purchasing a multi format reader, such as the SanDisk 8-in-1 USB 2.0 Memory Card Reader. I'm looking for advice on what to buy. I only need CF capability at the moment, but the other formats may be useful in the future. I have...

I think both these hard drives are listed as 7200RPM ata-133 2b cache. (40mb) 6E040L0 diamond max plus 8 6L040J2 d740x-dl so err.... can anyone tell me the differnce between them? thanks, eric

Is there an external USB hard drive available that can draw power from the USB port or is there simply not enough current available from USB? I wanted to be able to cart an external drive to hook up to my laptop when I run off battery. Thanks!