I've had a Maxtor One Touch 160G drive for about 2 weeks now. Just one concern though. Often when it starts up it will clang/bang quite loudly for 3 to 20 times, at a rate of about 2 times a second. It makes quite a racket. Then it settles down never to do it again for that session. It only does it...

I have Norton Ghost Vsn 10. Windows XP Pro Edition, computer with two IDE drives. The primary drive became damaged & will not boot up. Is it possible, using Norton Ghost vsn 10 to transfer files, data, applications from drive that will not boot up to a Primary drive in another computer? best,...

Back at school, I couldn't get my old win95 computer to reformat, so I let my "knowledgeable" roommate try to fix it. Boy am I stupid. He went into fdisk and deleted my partition, so now it recognizes nothing. Just shows A:/. When booting up, it requires the recovery cd in place, shows the usual...

Hi, I have googled no end and have been confused by seemingly contradictory information. I want to add a 120GB hard disk to my aging PC running Windows 2000, and boot from (a partition on) that drive. It has an AMI BIOS, and I have flashed the latest available for the motherboard -...

I have searched unsuccessfully to the answer to this - any help appreciated. I want to install Windows 2000 on a new Samsung SP1614N disk in a new system I am building. I understand that this is "tricky" but doable - can somebody *PLEASE* tell me how, and what's tricky about it? Detailed...

My new Samsung SP1614N disk feels hot. Is there a utility that can tell me its temperature? I couldn't find one on the Samsung site. What is the rated temperature for this disk - anyone know? I have read specs for other disks that give 55 or 60 deg C as the max ambient temperature. What about the...

While troubleshooting my new Samsung SP1614N disk installation, I downloaded the HUTIL utility from the Samsung site. Among other things, this lets you do a low level format. (Probably not a *true* low level format). Anyway, I started this off, and it was incredibly slow. After 5-10 minutes it was...

I have now tried twice to create a bootable slipstreamed Win 2000 + SP4 CD. Both times the CD appeared fine but was not bootable. My PC tries to boot from the CD but complains that "NTLDR" is not found, whatever that means. The references I used a http://www.duspinnst.com/bootcd.htm (my 1st...

Last night my windows 2000 installation managed to get corrupted and now will not boot. I suspect this may have been caused by the way that I installed W2k + Serice Pack 4 on a 160 GB drive. Background: 3 months ago I build a new PC with a 160GB drive (Samsung SP1614N). I have a Windows 2000 CD...

in hitachi's spec, one of drive performance is described as media transfer rate: XXX Mbits/sec in seagate's, internal transfer rate: XXX Mbits/sec in wd's spec, buffer to Disk: XXX Mbits/sec in maxtor's,

Hi: Here's a couple questions I would very much appreciate answers, or info, for: 1. What part of a drive (say a 120GB Western Digital) is the fastest for reading. 2. Is there any defragmentation program that works with win98se that alows you to put specific programs in specific areas of the...

Hi All, I have just purchased a 2TB Home Server Terastation, and am thinking of taking it back to the shop. It does NOT seem to support the use of multiple languages for file names. :mad: ie: You can't have 3 songs accessible where 1 is named in Korean, 1 in Japanese, and 1 in English. This...

Hey all!! 2 questions... First question: I was considering getting a 500gig external USB disk: (http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/LaCie_Ethernet_Disk_Mini__500GB_/4505-3186_16-31256882.html?tag=pdtl-list) Of course, if anyone can suggest something better, please tell. Now I want to use that drive for...

Hi all, I have a 3Ware 7506-4 RAID controller which I have been using for a while. In the software settings for SMTP notification for alarms etc, I can only specify "sender", "recipient", and "server". However, since I am using this at home, I dont have an SMTP server like at work, so cannot/do...

Hi friends I would like to share this with all. This info can be helpful to someone Win2k-SP3 and WinXP-SP1 supports 48 Bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing), though one have to enable it manually to get access to the HDD space beyond 137 GByte (Ofcourse the IDE BIOS has to be able to support 48 Bit...

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Hey friends anybody knows the diskless booting procedure for windows NT or win2k? regards abhijit

Hi This is Abhi here. I am facing a problem with IBM Netfinity 300 server, I have attached 1 IDE and a SCSI hard drive, win2k server is installed on SCSI. I want to boot the server by using SCSI after attaching both hdds. It is not allowing me to boot. By default it is trying to boot through IDE....

What's Next for LightScribe? It's been six months since DVD burners with LightScribe labeling technology shipped. Where will HP take LightScribe from here? Melissa J. Perenson, PC World Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Have burner, have labeler: The idea of creating disc labels using the same laser that...

Windows Tips: Check Your Disks for Errors, With a Single Click Automate hard-drive maintenance; XP Pro vs. XP Home; the versatile Power Menu utility. Scott Dunn Wednesday, July 30, 2003 01:00 AM PDT Last February I described how to automate hard-disk scans in Windows 98 and Me. Several readers...