Are there any user options on the noise reducing features on this drive and if so , how do you activate them ? thanks

I have a 200GB drive that is completely fubar. I need some really powerful data recovery software - looking for reccomendations. I really dont want to send it out, but I'll take reccomendations on mailout services too just in case, esp bay area. thanks

I have a drive with bad sectors in the FAT area, so I thought of Spinrite since it works at the low level, but they tell me that their program can't fix it. I couldn't expect them to explain why, so I'll ask here. I had thought that Spinrite relocates sectors at the low level, and as far as the...

Hello, I just bought a new Western Digital 40GB hard disk to replace my 5-year-old C drive. I used PartitionMagic to clone the drive and then made it an active drive. I then swapped the cables out so the new drive is in the master position on the cable and the old drive is on another IDE...

Just wondering what the general consensus is for a backup solution for a new RAID 0 array that I'll be setting up with two of the new WD Raptor 10K SATA drives. I'm thinking an external hard drive with Norton Ghost and updating the drive image routinely should be safe but then again I'm new to...

I am running W2K SP3 and have been using Drive Image 2002 without problems for over a year. Today , when I used the D.I. floppies to access a saved Image File , after the second floppy reaches the part where the normal D.I. green screen appears , I'm now getting the following error message...

Hello all, I recently upgraded my Inspiron 8100 (866 MHz P3 Mobile, 256 MB RAM) to a 60GB Hitachi Travelstar drive. At the same time, I went from Win 2K Professional SP1 to SP4. I have 5 partitions on this drive, 3 of them unformatted as yet. (I thought I'd use them for Linux.) The sizes are 4GB,...

I have been looking for an HD LED cable to connect my controller card to my motherboard but it seems like nobody carries them. Does anybody know where I can find some? Thanks joe

I am thinking about upgrading my P4 system to the new 800MHz type motherboard, and I have noticed that most of them come with onboard Raid controllers. I have a single 60gig harddrive on my system now. This is what I want to do with my computer. I run XP pro. Online gaming digital video editing...

I am running a RAID 1 as a second drive using an Adaptec 1200A PCI controller card and 2 80 Gb Maxtors and have my data stored on this in the interest of fault tolerance and backup purposes. Now, after lurking in this NG, I'm wondering if this is indeed a good idea and whether RAID 1 is pointless...

Do new mobo bioses still support 5 1/4"? Someone I know wants a new computer for home, but wants the old drive so he can slowly transfer his old stuff, rather than do it all at once before getting the new machine. In the past couple of years I only tried this once, on a Compaq, and it didn't...

Hello to all! I'm reading web and ng for know..and so choose what hd buy for a pc that must go 24/h always on (or near this...) As I have read on productor site chart of hd, i have noticed that samsung hd require less W than other hd... (remaining in 3,5inch drive) so they wouldn't be bad for this...

Hiya, As everybody notices, every new pc all equiped with a 3.5" floppy which I find it almost useless as every machine can be booted up via CDs, or some via SCSI drives. Is there any pc manufacturer consider replacing the small capacity, out of date floppy with some other formats, e.g. mini disc,...

I've posted similar questions like this before but I guess that I'll simply keep trying. I have a Windows XP OS on a Dell XPS T700r machine (yeah my machine is now about 3.5 years of age). But in any case, I have one annoying problem with my firewire setup. When I purchased an external Maxtor 80GB...

Hey All, Yesterday I received my new Maxtor Maxline II 250 GB drive from Newegg. I run WinXP with SP1, and I made the registry change to support 137GB drives. Whenever I run Thorough Format or Thorough Chkdsk, however, it freezes at about 60%, and just never progresses any further. (Could...

Hi, My daughter's computer's boot drive has stopped working. It is a Quantum Fireball lct 08 26 Gb drive, part number LA26A011 Rev 01-A. The Phillips chip on the PCB has a corner that is charred. The drive, when cold, will spin up and will be recognized by the BIOS, but while I am holding the...

We have a Maxtor "DiamondMax Plus 8" 40GB hard drive which was formatted for FAT32. It doesn't work anymore. The drive spins up, no unusual noises. During POST, the drive is auto-detected properly. After POST, however, BIOS says "Primary hard drive failure" and stops. Hard drive does not spin...

All I can say is "WOW"... I didn't intend to start a 38 (now 39) message thread! Thanks everyone for all your help... You can, of course, continue the thread - but the harddrive is wiped and gone now...

David Chien wrote in message ... The ME-320 is a nice enclosure with a switch on the back, standard AC The ME-720 unfortunately is a disaster! I can verify this - I have one of each. The ME-320 has been rock solid while the ME-720 has...

X-No-Archive: yes Hi Group Anyone aware of a utility names Seamap? Can it really remap damaged sectors? Is it available on the web or is supplied only with the HDDs?