ok here it is, i am new to building a comp and/or upgrading the system so plz be patience with me. Right now i have a Maxtor 2B020H1 (20 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100) HHD. It came with my Dell Dimension 4400 and that was six years ago. now it is time to upgrade and i would like to get a Western...

Hi, Perhaps I'm using the wrong keywords, but I've been coming up empty in trying to locate something that you would think would be in widespread use: a simple, multi-HDD, external closure. By simple, I mean that it is basically just consists of an enclosure, chassis, and power supply to drive...

What's the best way/prog to map out a few bad sectors so that I can make one more backup before replacing the drive? Ghost is reporting "Read sector failure, result = 1, drive = 0, sectors 49262215 to 49262279" and then aborts the backup. Ran it twice with similar results. Thanks. Colin

Am in the UK. On 21st June I posted here that I wanted to get a bargain 250 GB Samsung hard drive. I asked if I should get SATA or PATA for my oldish system Via SV266A mobo with Duron 1800 cpu and 768MB SD-RAM. I have many medium sized PATA drives and do not need another one to leave on...

DonLogan wrote Had disk corruption, which I asked for help on - see below. Took the advice and moved to XP. Hate to do this because it's $180 You can get it for a hell of a lot less than that. for an OS that's locked to an old machine. No it isnt, you can move it...

The BIOS denies the existence of the hard drive and I am unable to partition or re-format the HDD. The Auto Detection feature in BIOS found nothing, nor did re-flashing the BIOS do any good. FDISK from floppy boot won't help, and boot from Win98SE installation CD doesn't work since there is "no...

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I also have the USB2 Maxtor 3000LE external. My Windows XP machine can handle 300 gig drives... but when I try to put 1 in the 3000LE case... it only sees 137gig. Did you have to do anything special to get yours to work? Where did you see that chipset... and part #? I don't see anything that...

I just replaced my notebook HDD (Fujitsu - MHK2120AT) with a new HDD (Seagate - ST96023A). But now, I am hearing a slight "clink" sound on shutdown. Is this normal?

Hi! I would like to put another Promise TX2 Raid pci card into my system to be able to add more hds to it. Is this possible? Will there be any conflicts (ie. as far as I know there must be a boot-drive selected in the config menu of the promise card... what will happen if each card has a boot...

Hi, I feel it might be a stupid question, but... do all RAID controllers only handle a single array? Say, for example, that you need to build a 4-disk RAID 5 array and a 4-disk RAID 0 array, both on the same machine working simultaneously; do you necessarily have to use TWO separate controllers...

I bought a Dell Dimension 5150 - stupid, stupid decision. The motherboard has an ICH7R controller. If you look up this piece of hardware, it's pretty good.It offers RAID 0 and 1 (and 5 and 10 if you have four drives), using Intel's wonderful "Matrix" technology. But no, Dell has crippled it, so...

I have two hard drives in my system (C:\ & D:\). I like to keep my operating system on one drive (C:\) and all other programs on the second drive (D:\). My problem is that some programs don't give me an option and load the programs onto my (D:\). Is there a method that can overide the...

TLER needs special RAID controller? was: Xeon ... (Time Limited Error Recovery, a WD feature on some of their SATA hard drives) George Macdonald wrote: On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:13:49 -0500, willbill wrote: George Macdonald wrote:

Hey everyone, Currently we have an X drive which is where everyone saves their files in the company. It is now nearly 250 GB, but the files are all scattered. Does anyone have suggestions as to how we can go about organizing this, or is there any software out there that helps out with searching...

I've been using a Seagate Internal HD connected to an IDE to USB cable as a External USB HD on my Windows XP machine. Yesterday I changed the Volume label and now the computer don't even recognize the USB device at all. I found out today that I changed the Volume Label to 12 characters. Normally...

I have a hard drive I am trying to move to a Promise card, the hard drive boots fine, when connected to the motherboard, but when I connect it to the promise card, I get "Invalid boot diskette", it tries to boot from the floppy. When the drive was plugged into the IDE plug on the motherboard, I...

Has anybody used these ? They are written in c opposed to asm which would proberly make them portable, as far as i know spinrite is only written for x86 chips. thanks

I have a laptop HDD rated at 5V which was working fine until i accidentally using the wrong power cord on the case device. The power cord was rated at 12V. The case device is only of those portable image tank things rated at 5V. Now the laptop HDD seems to be not spinning, in that case device and...

I'm trying to add a second optical drive to a six-year old Dell Dimension 4100. The PC is running Windows ME. It came with a Lite-On LTN483S 48x CD-ROM drive, which has been functioning correctly. The Lite-On is jumpered "cable select" and was previously the only device on the secondary IDE cable....