Can someone recommend a vendor who sells a slot cover that has two External SATA ports that wire internally to the motherboard I-SATA connectors? -- W

I want to mirror 2 disks mirror using RAID. Can this be done on a 750GB and 500GB disk? It's a single user desktop running XP with RAID provided by a PCI card. Might change the mobo to one with RIAD if it's better? This is for editing audio. Don't want to lose audio work if a disk fails so...

Hello. Is it me or is it really difficult to undelete/recover huge files (a few GB) on both FAT32 and NTFS even right a few minutes after the deletions? I have noticed this in the past and right now. Currently, I have a 5.63 GB MPEG-2 file. Both undelete programs (EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard...

Hello this is my first post here, i have found these groups to be very useful, and i want to enrich them by adding an interesting question. he he ;) I have a windows 2000 computer with a Seagate 80 Gb IDE HDD. Recently I have been getting alerts on the system event viewer. These alerts basically...

Does anyone know of a SATA host adapter that will work with the Quantum DLT V4 SATA external tape drive? Plugging this into a Promise TX4302 it did not appear to Windows XP. -- W

I have a Toshiba MK3021GAS 30GB Laptop Hard Drive which has been in my laptop for a long time (4 years). Recently, after I did a hard reset, Windows XP failed to boot off of it. Gave me an 0x0000ED error (UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error). I tried booting Windows Recovery disk but checkdisk said it...

I'm looking for a boot manager that allows me to have multiples OS partitions on my C drive, but with the inactive partitions hidden, and an easy way to select the OS to boot when you turn on your system. I'm willing to spend some money to get a reliable and solid product. "Free" isn't as important...

Am running XP Pro/SP2. I have a SATA HDD attached via USB. I made a copy of about 20 GB of data from an internal HDD to the USB HDD. I wanted a second copy of the data and I wanted that second copy to be stored on my USB HDD. IYSWIM. So I used XP to make a copy: source = the USB HDD ...

Windows won't start, boot from Acronis Trueimage CD to recover a backup and it says "Unable to read from Sector 5.062 etc of hard Disk 1" when I look for backups to restore and goes no further. There are backups on both another partition of that disk (as well as on another seperate drive),...

We have a Western Digital WD6400AACS "green" 640GB drive in an external SATA enclosure attached to a Dell computer through a Promise TX4302 two port external SATA adapter. If we power on the SATA drive and then power on the computer, the drive is seen by the Promise BIOS. But if we reboot...

Anyone recommend a windows (or a something on a bootable disk maybe) disk tool that can exercise drives (read and write)? Preferably something that works with USB drives too. I need something I can leave running for a few hours as I've been given a number of drives I don't know the state of. ...

Hi group, Background; A friend has a Fujitsu Siemens laptop with an 80 GB HD. There are only abt 12 GB files and folders on it, but still Windows says there is only a handful GB free space on it. So there must be some crap taking up space. The drive has only one partition. Rather than having him...

I got a new hard drive and have started moving data off some over full (90%) hard drives. What sort of amount of percentage fullness should I aim for? I'm hoping there's a "knee" in the graph which shows fullness versus performance which represents the point at which small increases in...

I'm not getting any help on Seagate Forums. Just wondering if this Seagate Barracuda drive is failing. I am getting a high reallocated sector count which previously, back in January I had normal values. I have attached a link to the image (via imageshack):...

Hate to ask such a basic question but I just came back to my 64 meg flash drive to find my 3 current .doc files on which I have done a gigantic amount of work simply not there. Curiously there are two directories (Firefox Portable) which ARE still there and I cant figure out what happened to the...

Hi, I'm trying to get the serial number of a storage device. I've tried sg3_utils and sg_inq does this. I tried calling the functions within the sg3 source files, but I can't seem to build it even after including the relevant header files. I've also tried forming my own SCSI inquiry CDB and...

Hi: I have a question just out of curiosity. I notice with ZIP discs and floppies, the disc is a soft dark-brown round film-like material that can easily be shredded -- with paper- shredder -- to remove confidential information. However, the magnetic platters in HDDs are much harder and metallic.

Is the only difference in these two the warranty (3 years vs 7 years)?

I can't seem to find one of these available in the US. Any idea when these (or any Samsung 1.5 TB) will be available from newegg or similar?

One of my oldest drives a 200GB Maxtor, has a spin retry count problem. HD Sentinel reports its health at only 40% due to this. But it seems the spin retries only happen during bootup. If I keep the machine running, it never happens. It also doesn't happen during warm reboots, just occasionally...