I have a 120GB Maxtor Diamond that I need to recover some data from. The drive failed tonight. It was in an external enclosure attached to my Win2K3 box via USB. I noticed an I/O error in the event viewer. The drive spins up fine but then is making a "Tick" noise about every 5 Seconds. I tried...

I was just salivating over the specifications of Blue-Ray and HD DVD disks. It would make backing up and storing information so much easier for me. As it stands the best option for me now is single layer DVDs. They hold a lot and are cheap. That brings me to an observation. The next level of...

Hello! I have a strange question about an old hard drive that I pulled out of an old Pentium 1 computer. The hard drive was working fine, and the computer was able to boot into Windows 95 fine. Then I decided to run SpinRite6 to check if the hdd had any bad sectors. SpinRite6 booted fine from a...

This new Samsung SpinPoint T166 (HD501L, firmware CR100-10) behaves strangely. I have a program that repeatedly { fills a block device with pseudo-random data, reads it back and checks that it matches }. I started the program last night on the Samsung and this morning the console was full of kernel...

I have a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 30GB that appears as 'no drive present' in a few PCs I've tried it in. There are only some files to recover since the last backup so it may not be worth a recovery service. What are the prospects that it's just the logic board, which I can get from another...

All, What ATA133 RAID controllers using DIMM memory do you know? I'm trying to look around to find something to improve the speed of my home server that I use for video rendering. Right now I'm having 4 IBM/Hitachi hard drives, 7200, 250 GB each, working as a RAID. It allows me to get 1 TB...

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The data: Our data size is about 800gb per week (weekly full backups, 4 sets of tapes for a month, 3 of the weeks would be held off site at any given time, there would also be 4 quarters from the year held off site too).. So for LTO3 this is around 24 tapes ($40 a piece) and about 16 tapes for...

that you would just use to boot a pc and diagnose the pc health, including its power supply, peripherals, ... ~ or how could you use an existing live CD to do that? ~ There is smartmontools to check hard drives hardware anything like that to check other parts of a PC? ~ Thanks lbrtchx

I'm disappointed with the Seagate eSATA drive, because after a power failure, the drive requires you to push the button to restart it, which is a real problem since the other equipment starts right up. Seagate support says there's no way to fix it, and further claimed that *NO* eSATA drive can...

I have a new Dell Latitude P520 laptop with Vista Business addition. I have a Simple Tech 250 gig external (USB) hard drive that I moved over from my previous XP laptop. My Simple Tech external hard drive worked just fine with XP, but with my new Vista laptop the external hard drive is recognized...

Good day, I have a Toshiba 80 gb 2.5" hard disk. The drive works perfectly for 5-10 minutes, then it stops and I need to disconnect it and close it for 2 hours to cool down. When cool it can work agaIn for 5-10 minutes. I managed to save my files and I left the hard disk on my desk. Is there a way...

Hi, We are using two USB hard drives (250gb) as backup for our companies system. Each is used to contain a complete image of the entire server, and is swapped over every night with the other. There is a power switch on the housing, which we have been turning off, then disconnecting the drive,...

Hi all, i need a motor with a high rotational accuracy, so i 've think to re-use a motor of a hard disk. Here are some questions: 1) considering the smallest rotation permitted with a motor of this type, which is the corrisponding rotating angle? 2) where can i find some tutorial/guide/or any...

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I have one lto, installed correctly in windows 2003. I discovered that in computer management- storage - removable storage - libraries, show red icone and in properties, show message IBM ULT3580-TD2 SCSI Sequential Device - The Drive not present in the library. I tested with arcserver and library...

Hello guys. Greetings from Germany. I hope you can help me. I have got an Asrock P4S55FX+ mainboard with an SIS 181 Raid controller. In the past I used a Raid-1 with two SATA IBM 160GB HDDs and my Windows 2003. It worked very well. When I removed on HDD (broken raid1), it was still possible to...

Hi...I have several bad drives in various states. One of them spins up but never shows up in (Windows) as a disk or an unallocated disk in Disk Management. Wondering how to get access to it at a low level perhaps? Would Ontrack see it if Windows Disk Management wouldn't? Also I have another...