created 2 -60 GB partitions, one primary, one logical on a 250 GB IDE drive. Using usb adapter, plugged drive into usb port on XP library system. XP system assigns two drive letters, one for the primary and other for the logical. HOWEVER it says the primary letter drive has not been formatted. I...

On 13 Aug 2008 09:34:21 GMT, Arno Wagner put finger to keyboard and composed: In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote: Hi. My old mini-tower PC's HDDs are acting crazy today. I came home and noticed my second drive wasn't there so I checked dmesg...

On 8/13/2008 2:34 AM PT, Arno Wagner typed: In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote: Hi. My old mini-tower PC's HDDs are acting crazy today. I came home and noticed my second drive wasn't there so I checked dmesg (deleted normal logs before hdb): From...

My pc froze while I was in the process of moving a few files around. I waited a few minutes without luck and was forced to shutdown manually. Doing so lost the MBR file structure (Drive is no longer recognized by windows xp). I'm looking for a fast fix. My drive storage is 750G so a thorough deep...

Ant wrote: On 8/12/2008 11:08 PM PT, Rod Speed typed: Ant wrote: Hi. My old mini-tower PC's HDDs are acting crazy today. I came home and noticed my second drive wasn't there so I checked dmesg (deleted normal logs before hdb): SMART...

Which of these part apps will recognize the full size of a 250gb drive connected via usb 2 ide adapter on a SE system and allow me to create several 60GB partitions? Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Ranish Partition Manager2.40 Using stable version because V2.44 is beta and reported to be...

Read some reviews - like the slower speed and less vibration i use samsungs all the time - only fault in my eyes anyway is the vibration something i'm obvioulsy into . . . anyway , any feedback welcome

Some aussie moron just copied 75kB of ****e. "Rod Speed" wrote in message ... Ant wrote: Hi. My old mini-tower PC's HDDs are acting crazy today. I came home and noticed my second drive wasn't there so I...

Another moron that copied 75kB of ****e. Arno Wagner wrote in In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote: Hi. My old mini-tower PC's HDDs are acting crazy today. I came home and noticed my second drive wasn't there so I...

On Wednesday 13 August 2008 07:21, someone identifying as *Ant* wrote in /comp.os.linux.hardwa/ Hi. My old mini-tower PC's HDDs are acting crazy today. I came home and noticed my second drive wasn't there so I checked dmesg (deleted normal logs before hdb): hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma...

Is there a way (method) to test the actual speed of an external USB2.0 harddrive. I just installed a Western Digital external USB2.0 harddrive and, at times, it appears to be a bit slow. Are there tests that can be run to determine the actual speed? I have it connected to a USB2 port and am...

I was deleting some redundant files from an old USB 1.1 external hard drive. The data on this drive consisted of several gigabytes of software installer packages. I was planning to copy all this software to a new system. For reasons I cannot explain, the two partitions on this external drive are...

I ran the basic new hard drive with: In the lower windowpane on the right hand side, you should see unallocated space for the drive. Right-click anywhere on the unallocated space to see a menu of available options. Click on Create Partition The Create Partition Wizard will appear. Click on Next.

Hi Following a write error on a Hitachi 30GB (2.5") drive I downloaded their drive fitness test software. The quick test found some errors and suggested I run the erase function to fix the errors. I have had the erase function (sequential write) running overnight and its still running.

I have been looking for info regarding the data transfer rate in networked PCs and how to improve it ~ Is keeping a cache in a squid-based HTTP cache better than taking the time to design a local disk cache in a heavy loaded networked? ~ NFS is fast but it is still using the common network's...

Does anyone know how many spare clusters there are typically on a 120 Gig Travelstar please? I suppose it IS safe to use them? Isn't that what they are for? I have a 120 Gig Travelstar which was continuously failing. When it failed the computer wouldn't POST, giving a hard drive failure error...

On or about Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:57:13 +0800 did "Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)" dribble thusly: Chipset is nForce 570 Ultra. Whatever possessed you to think it would? 3.0Gbps indicates the maximum interface transfer rate for a single drive (which no current SATA drive...

i have conected a sata slave to my nec computer it also has a master slave now windows wont recignise it!! i went through my bios and it is showing as being there any ideas on how to get it into my windows so i can save things on it??:confused::confused:

I have a hard drive that just went south for the summer. It was an external USB drive (Beyond Micro) with a 500GB WD Caviar HD. It wouldn't sign on as a USB drive, made a lot of attemps then stopped all access. I put it into the system (IDE) and I just hung the system because it can't read many...

Hello All, This is a notification about release of new software - Emergency Boot CD. Emergency Boot CD (EBCD) is a CD-ROM for booting PC and recovering data in emergency situations. EBCD contains file manager, which is able to process files on FAT, NTFS, EXT3 volumes. All national characters in...