Hi all! I have a 100 Gb disk in the secundary IDE (only one disc instaled) that I want to replace for a 120 Gb disk In the 100Gb disk I have 3 partitions: C: (system) 30 Gb fat32 with win XP, D: and E: both NTSF 35 Gb each. My question is this: Can I clone the 100 Gb drive to the 120 Gb drive? And...

Seagate claims their drives fulfill all of the SATA specs and WD (and Maxtor) don't. I have owned 2 Seagate HD's for a long time with no problems. What would people go with recommendation-wise for a 120GB SATA drive? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system...

Have 2 computers. Computer 1 - Compaq Deskpro 2000 Pent I 150mhz, Win98 2 h/d's Computer 2 - IBM PIII 550mhz, Win98SE, 2 h/d's Both have USB ports. I'm using the 2nd drive on computer 1 to record some vinyl and want to transfer the files to the larger 60 gig 2nd drive on computer 2 for

Does anyone know if the breather filter used by hard drives blocks moisture as well as dust? If it doesn't, what keeps the internal dissicant bag/filter from saturating quickly? Does heat from the hard drive dry it out?

I have recently tried two IDE-to-SATA converters, one by Promise and one by ASUS. The Promise one comes in a little grey plastic box. The one from Asus is "open-frame" and has a black foam-rubber insulation on the bottom. The interessting thing is that both behaved differently when I tried them...

As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS on an active partition when booting it up for the 1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen" by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you have to open...

Mark M wrote in message ... There are drive tray to allow you to hot-swap SATA drives. Yes, and they arent that cheap. But rather than using removeable trays, is it possible to hot-swap SATA drives by disconnecting...

Are there any stand-alone utilities that will read and/or write (initialize) a hard drive that is not recognized by the bios? I thought some utilities bypass the bios completely and write directly to the drive. I have a secondary hard drive WD that recently died, just click click clicks and bios...

Previously Steve wrote: On 31 Mar 2004 02:59:50 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote: You have write caching anyway. Unless you disable it in the disks themselves. The loss in performance is dramatic. I am able to disable disk write caching. Would it get ugly...

"Rod Speed" wrote in message Mark Fineman wrote in message ... I am looking for a disk read speed benchmark that will scan the entire disk...

I recently had a Western Digital hard drive go bad on me. I checked the warranty status of it to find that it was covered until 3/21/2006. So, I created an "advanced RMA" and they shipped me another drive. What I rec'd was a "recertified" drive, which was fine with me as long as it worked. Well,...

Any reason you can think of why this would work 10 days ago but not now? I just got another clean drive hooked up to transfer stuff to, but now findntfs isn't finding anything on the drive and chkdsk reports a corrupt master file table! How did that happen? (And more importantly, what can be done...

Greetings! I work technical support for the University of Kentucky Department of Communication. We are looking for a DVD-R archiving solution for roughly 10 Terabytes of information. We're envisioning a unit similar to a DVD Duplicator, but instead of duplicating the same DVD 50 times, we'd like...

For $119, with free 2nd day UPS shipping, and a three year warranty, you can go to www.zipzoomfly.com and get a 160GB Samsung SATA drive. I have never used a samsung drive myself but you gotta love the three year warranty. I get the Wester Digitals with the 3 yr....

Hi Rod; Spot on - On both counts. clearhdd did the trick & The usable size remained as was. Very grateful Bob "Rod Speed" wrote in message ...

"Steve Baron - KB3MM" wrote in message The master slave setting is not on the drive for cable select You don't say. Maybe that is why they call it "cable select" then, eh. What exactly did you not understand in: " If you...

Just bought a Seagate 160GB drive to put in an external USB 2.0 enclosure. The enclosure was an Acom Data which I have had for a while, which came with a 60GB Samsung inside. I wanted more storage, so I swapped out the Samsung for the Seagate. Problem is, only 127GB of the 160 is seen by Windows. I...

Hello, Last night i checked my computer hard-drive and it was 75 gb free space and now today it is 63.3gb free, I have also selected every folder in my C: drive and clicked properties and it shows that my harddisk actually has only used 30gb I have a 111gb drive (meant to be 120gb) So do the maths

Previously Leo wrote: Odie wrote in message ... For the sake of my education, if we can say the PCB is good but the head is bad, how would a data-recovery service get the data off the ...

Previously John Smith wrote: Why does a SATA drive have so many connectors for the power supply? Why does the SATA spec seem to specify so many connectors? (I think there are 15.) I you mean "contacts", simple: The standard molex connectors are rated for 5A. The thin...