Hi I have a Maxtor 160GB 3.5" drive in a USB/Firewire external case (chipset Prolific 3507). When I try to use Norton Disk Doctor on it, the test stalls at 43% complete, every time. I tried Check Disk on it and that also stalls, both in Windows and upon reboot before Windows loads. It's exactly the...

I currently have 3 2.5" USB external drives (all under 160gb). I use one for a bootable backup, one to back up my data and one for my pictures (I'm Wedding photographer). As the drives are physically small and run directly off the USB bus off my Mac, I can take them all to shoots. The problem...

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I believe my Asus A7N8X2.0 (deluxe) motherboard is damaged, because the system would not shut down for three weeks and now it will not boot my system disk. The fans turn, but the after five seconds, the system seems to restart. I never see the bios screens. I would simply buy a new computer,...

Yesterday night, my house RCD tripped while I'm uploading file to internet. After recovered PC power, I found that my SATA HDD disappeared from windows HDD list - other 2 IDE HDD, FDD, DVD drives & movable drive remained. I opened device manager, selected drives icon and right clicked on it then...

Hi, on my ECS L7VTA1.1 Motherboard, there are two standard IDE connections, as well as two Promise connections (IDE3&4) linked to a Promise 20265 Controller. Obviously these can be used for RAID configuring, but I'm not using RAID at all, and I've used over the past couple of years to just be...

Can anyone tell me if going through 5 hard drives in 7 yeas, same box, is abnormal? I have lost an IBM, a Hitachi, and three Seagates. A friend says there must be something else wrong, and that to loose so many drives is abnormal.

hi, I had 2 hard drives in my desktop. One died ( 40gb), and the other still lives (an IBM 12GB, DESKSTAR TITAN 3.5' Ultra ATA). I lost my windows and everything on the 1st one. Life continued with the IBM intact. Now I want to buy a new HDD, and transfer everything from the small sized IBM HDD...

I am cleaning up an old computer and am going to replace the ide cables. I am debating with myself whether to use round ide or flat ribbon cable... I can get a good price on 24" round IDE, but as the 24" is longer than the 18" spec. Assuming good quality cables, will there be a problem witht he...

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I added an additional SATA controller to my system. The HDD activity LED is connected to controller on the motherboard. I would like to hook up a second LED to the pins provided on the add on card. Is there a product available to plug in? Since the side panel on the case has a clear window, I...

Hi everybody, Is there anyway to create RAID 0 using two external SATA hard drives? If yes, since the external SATA drives have their own power button what would occur if I switch off one of the disk? Thanks, Jokin

I'm going to use a 160GB (one disk) windows vista ultimate notebook(4GB ram). Regardless of what some "experts" state about disk fragmentation, I've noticed that packing "similar" data on multiple partition, fastens defragmentation. That is, I've planned the following disk partitions (NTFS) C:...

Hello all, Can anyone recommend a SATA Hard Drive enclosure with Firewire and Cooling fan? Is there a particular brand or model you have had good success with? Thanks in advance. Ronnie

Question for the experts, Can Vista be installed on a new drive while several other drives are already connected or does the install drive have to be alone during install? I thought that a prompt might come up during Vista install that gave you a choice of where to install the OS and one would...

I have 3 hard disks in a raid 5 and yesterday, one of the disk "failed". So I selected the option to repair the raid on the drive (which has worked before), and after about 2 hours, it blue screened my computer. now it will not boot up, as the WHOLE raid has failed. Is there a way of recreating...