I was given an old computer from work. When I tried to replace the original 6.4 GB hhd with a Western Digital 40 GB hhd, the BIOS would not recognize the new drive. Would a seperate IDE controller card solve the limitation problem? Thanks in advance

Has anyone used norton ghost to create backup images with Maxtor onetouch drives and performed recoverys? Interested to hear of your experiences TIA

There is a current article with interesting links about this on /.: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/22/1658251&mode=flat&tid=137&tid=198 The summary is essentially to forget it. Some testing with reasonably conditions (dark cupboard) had unreadable media as soon as 2 years after...

Help Please! I have a 4GB Hitachi microdrive (FAT32) that I need to convert to FAT16 (I understand that I will only be able to use 2GB) so my digital camera will recognize it. I've checked out Compuapps swissknife, Partition Magic, Partition Manager, and some other utilities on both winxp pro and...

Hello, I've got an older NEC Laptop (NEC Versa LX VL440CL60) and the CD-ROM has suddenly stopped reading disks. The BIOS and Windows 2000 says it is there but it refuses to read a disk. I've taken the drive out and put it back in to no avail. Suggestions? Thanks, Brian

Does anyone have any experience of the above products. I am thinking of purchasing one of the above and wanted to know the performance and reliability of the drives. My needs are to backup norton ghost images and files. Views on anyone who as one of these will be appreciated. TIA

Hi, I've been discussing some external enclosure problems here and elsewhere recently. These have been mainly related to the full capacity of large hard drives not being recognised when used in some enclosures. Some clearly knowledgable people here have indicated that the case electronics are...

Questions: If we decide to run redundant storage Onboard as data Back-up (accepting drawbacks in reliability compared to Remote BU), how should one decide which config (the various choices of SATA vs USB2 etc) is best for his box? What is the best way -from the Performance priority- to connect...

Can anyone help? I have just purchased a new western digital USB external HDD and cannot start up when it is connected. I am running XP and it hangs on start-up when the new drive is pluged/in front USB port. If I start the computer then plug in the external drive it works fine.

Hi All, I have this IBM X Series 225 server, LSI SCSI chips(with IM fuction) on motherboard. I installed two IBM scsi harddisks for Windows 2000 server and these two disks setup as hardware raid 1 (mirror). I have questions about scsi mirror setup menu (LSI MPT IM). when I select one disk as...

I currently have a 120gig external usb maxtor drive 3000le that works great. I'm thinking of getting another and wanted to know how the reliability is with the new maxtor one touch drives? Thanks, Mike

Hello folks. I just bought a ByteCC ME-740 external enclosure for my 250GB drive. After a few hours of use with the units stacked on top of one another, I noticed that I could fry an egg on the chassis of the top drive. It was HOT! I wrote to ByteCC about the heat problem and they suggested I...

My laptop has a Windows modem chip described as follows: PCTel 2304WT V.92 MDC I would like to know if this chip supports fax before I go and purchase faxing software. The hardware info utility AIDA32 v. 3.93 does not reveal anything about the chip's capability.

Hi, Hoping someone with experience using powermax can help me understand this. My system specs: Win98SE P4 1.8ghz CPU 512mb PC2700 ram 2 Maxtor 40gb DIamondmax UDMA133 drives in RAID ARRAY (Striped) via MBFastTrack 133 lite built into Gigabyte GA8IEXP Mobo (Promise Tech RAID Controller).

The IBM Serveraid Utility Raidman can't send eMail Notifications in Windows 2003. There is the following error message in the log file: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 29, 2004 9:23:08 PM ERROR: Sending MAIL commmand, email address zseries...

Hello Svend I am trying to learn how to interpret the Findpart output because it is really an excellent tool. For example, I took the following output from my first disk: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Findpart, version 4.41 - for Windows...

Si wrote: I'm thinking of getting an extra HD, primarily for backups... However, I have a DVD+R/+RW drive built in... As my current HD is 80GB with currently 62GB free, is the extra drive just an extravagance?

I have run into an unusual problem with an 80 GB Maxtor DiamondMax+9 (2 MB buffer) drive: when I run it in a USB 2.0 enclosure, the write speed is only 6.5 MB/sec. I have tried two different enclosures and I have checked that the drive is set to "master", with the same result. I have tried two...

we have an intel D865GBF motherboard here, with 2 serial ata ports. we have 2 maxtor 80 gig serial ata drives. we're running windows 2000 server sp4. i can plug in either drive to either port, and it will work, but when i plug in both drives at the same time, into either port, one of the drives...

I'm looking into a project that will involve an IDE interface but not have platters/heads/etc. Are there standard IDE-interface chipsets that go on the actual drive? (I.e. not the motherboard "controller"). If so, is their primary function the motor/head/etc control or do they also simplify the...