I had one of those Seagate 7200.10 320GB drive made in CHINA, it made that horrible CHIRP and other noises. I had it replaced, seagate sent me a 'refurbished' drive from SNIGAPORE and it works VERY WELL. Even benchmarks are 5%-10% BETTER!!??? Seems odd that a REFURBISHED drive would work so much...

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Hello My brother has a small business with 7 workstations. He uses a Windows XP workstation as his server but there is no RAID array or tape backup and no free bays in the workstation. I'm looking for an inexpensive way to provide RAID 1 plus tape backup. I was thinking of purchasing an eSATA...

Sometimes when a user stops his small drive to remove it, he also stops the other USB drive that remains connected. This is the sort of user who is never going to get it right, so I wish there was a command that could re-enumerate (or un-stop) any USB drives that are still connected. ...

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 16MB Cache SATA2 is very slow. I'm using asus's A8S-X board which doesn't allow SATA 2 so it defaults to SATA 1. When the Jumper is ON it forces it to go to SATA ONE, I have the jumper OFF making it SATA TWO which the motherboard does not support. But...

Hi anyone has the instructions on how to remove the dvd player from my laptop I am using T60 IBM laptop thanks Vickie

I have fried the controller board on one of my Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA2 drives (accidental short while rebuilding a rig) and I am looking for a spare board. Does anyone have a broken or used disk that I could get or buy? Should I contact Seagate directly for a replacement? Luckily the...

All, I need some help on a problem I am faced with. I have a large box of old 5.25 Floppies (a few hundred) from when I got my first IBM PC back in 1989-90. I have pulled a few out and tested them on my old 386 (latest computer with a 5.25 drive that I have) and they seemed to read fine. Most of...

Hi, One of those not so simple questions; I have 2 x 300gb as a Raid 1 array,Intel ICH7 controller, and while I havn't lost any data the 6-7 rebuilds in the last 6 months are, to say the least, painful. A rebuild never finds any errors, and takes 5 hours. This is a Win XP workstation, and data...

I'm a Philips consumer but i'm now disappointed due to this: First of all, i researched every part of your site and found my CD-RW drive's firmware update at "http://www.storageupdates.philips.com/en/ cdrw.html" to update my drive's firmware from P1.3 to P1.5 as displayed and instructed. So, i...

First of all, i researched every part of your site and found my Philips CD-RW drive's firmware update at "http:// www.storageupdates.philips.com/en/cdrw.html" to update my drive's firmware from P1.3 to P1.5 as displayed and instructed. So, i read all of "how-to" and "faq" documents carefully then...

Hi, I have big problem. I lost my partition table, however, I was able to guess it by gpart application. Right now I am trying to write it to HD, but it is not so easy. I am using fdisk, however, when I exit from fdisk, all partition information is lost (yes, I exit by "w" not "q"). Do you know...

What is a reasonable transfer rate for a usb 2.0 external hard drive? -Thx

Hello, While trying to make an image of an NTFS partition, the imaging softwares (I tried with both "True Image" and "Ghost") reported that errors on partition prevented the image to be completed. For example, Acronis stated that it "Failed to read from the sector 234,439,534 of the hard disk...

Does anybody make an 80 GB hard disk with jumper that limits it to 32 GB? (IDE) I need to replace hard disk for a computer that can only handle 32 GB. A few years ago, a bought a 40 GB drive with such a jumper, and it seems 80 GB is the smallest now. I wish to get a new drive, not a used jobby...

Ok I have a client with a IBM ThinkCentre Desktop (model m52-8113-ebu) and they are using a Seagate Freeagent Pro external hard drive (usb) and sometimes when they reboot the pc hangs. you can power off the pc and then back on and it boots just fine. the bios has usb devices excluded from the...

I saw this link on another group: http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/ The page contains this quote: Some manufacturers (for example, Dell and HP) use DCO to reduce capacity for marketing needs. Example: they need to ship 1000000 computers with 40GB hard drives, but...

For reasons we won't go into :-( I have to replace the motherboard in one of my PCs. The system has four SATA drives in a pair of mirros using the onboard Intel SATA RAID (ICH7) implementation. Will I be able too just plug the SATA connectors into the new board (assuming the same ICH7 RAID...

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