I bought 2 Lacie external HD (those nice "Porsche design"). One is working allright since 2006, the transformator of the second broke after a few uses and I can't find a replacement here in Italy.... On their site Lacie does NOT give a telephone number to call, just a mail.

Hello... I have a USB memory stick and everytime I insert it into a PC (running WinXP pro) symantec finds 3 x 'loader.exe' on it. I have formmatted the stick a number of times but each time Auto protect keeps finding this worm. Could it be that there is something built into the memory stick...

How big is a gigabyte in hard drive advertising and packaging? From another newsgroup, I suppose it's true: Coverage of a recent New Mexico Supreme Court case said that states were getting bold in finding excuses to void arbitration agreements under general state contract law and the U. S....

I am currently running three Sonnet 500P eSATA enclosures on a Dell server using a 4-port Addonics eSATA PCI-X card. Everything works very well and has been very reliable. However, recently I had to do some maintenance on some adjacent hardware, and merely brushed against the eSATA cables. Two...

I tried replacing the 160GB hard drive in my ReplayTV DVR with a brand new WD3200AAJB drive. Unfortunately, the AA drives are not compatible with the Replay 5000 series. (I have never had a problem replacing ReplayTV drives. The newer drives are largely incompatible, so the problems are now...

Hi All, I have recently had a couple of Hitachi Deskstar hard drives go bad on me. I'm just wondering if anyone else has had symptoms like these and can shed any light on what my chances are of getting any data recovered! When powered up, both drives emit a strange beeping sequence, please visit...

Bought one of these cheap ide 2 usb adapters. It works, but the cheap ribbon cable they sent me broke in two days (only 2 inches long). It appears to be a standard ribbon hard drive cable. Female connector at one end connects to any hard drive and male connector at other end connects to usb2ide...

Hello, I bought a refurbished IBM NetVista (model 8305MU3) that came with an actual IDE CdRom (drive D) and a phantom SCSI CdRom configured as drive E, as can be seen from this System Information summary: Drive D: Description CD-ROM Drive Media Loaded No Media Type CD-ROM

I have a floppy disk that reads without problem in most machines (running windows). The other day, I was using a windows machine and the floppy just kept spinning. On putting the floppy in another computer it read without a problem. Can anyone explain this. Thanks.

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Okay, I got a digital camera which attaches to my pc via USB. Until recently, whenever I connected it to the PC, it would autoplay a selection of utilities to transfer my images from the camera to my computer. As of a couple of weeks back, it stopped doing any autoplays. I looked into it a bit...

Since it's striped I would expect RAID 5 to be faster than RAID 1 generally, but I've read some vague references (in this link and elsewhere) to lower write performance in 5 than in 1. Why would that be so? http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Transaction-Logs-Lifeblood-Exchange.html -- Reply...

I have a WD Passport drive that has lost many files. The major problem I have is that the system uses something called WD Sync that encrypts the files with 128 bit encryption - I think AES. I have the password, and so would like guidance on how to decrypt the files. Any pointers or ideas would...

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Pioneer have a page that lists Supported DVD-Writable Media for various model series: http://wwwbsc.pioneer.co.jp/product-e/ibs/device_e/dev00003r_e.html I don't know if other manufacturers have similar data. However, I have recently been able to extract MID codes embedded in the SB01 firmware for...

Hi, I need to test large quantities of 68 pin and 80 pin SCSI hard drives and SAS hard drives to determine if they are not defective. What would be the best way (economically and efficiently) to test these drives? Background:

I'm involved in a complex case relating to a "failed" SCSI raid array. I need to ask a question of someone who is knowledgeable (very much so) in SCSI technology to confirm that my suspicions are correct. This will probably not apply to anyone who has less than 10 years' experience in SCSI. I...

Hi, We have HP xw9400 workstations featuring LSI MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP cards with 4 drives. Read performance is fine, but writing is terrible. We only get 7 Mb/sec for sequential writes to RAID5, and around 11 Mb/sec to RAID0. We have tried using both Windows XP 64-bit and Windows 2003...

I have a drive that has been periodically making a clicking sound (like it's shutting down), but it's temporary--everything seems to be back online when checked. It does not sound like thermal recal. No messages in the event queue. There are nine drives in this system, so it's difficult to tell...

Hi - I have a load of old backup tapes that I need to get the data from as quick and easily as possible. What's the best software for this? Just plain and simple data retrieval?? I have a good budget I can use if needed. Also I think one or two tapes might be corrupt too, so if it could handle...