Hello, my setup was two hard drives on primary channel / udma33 One dvd-rom on secondary master, also udma33. It's an old MVP3 motherboard, Epox mvp3-gm, but still working good. I took the two harddrives off of the MOBO and placed them on an Ultra66 PCI card - they're working better, now both...

Hello, this is the format of my drive: windows 95 (Hidden primary, 1 GB fat32) Windows 98 (Active primary 9 GB fat32) Windows 2000 (Logical 4 GB, NTFS) This drive is on a Promise ultra66. Boot up gives me win2k boot loader menu, with the choice of

Hello all, I noticed one type of operation where the performance is very low, it occurs when reading and writing lots of data simultaneously. For example, I had a RAR archive of a 235MB avi file. Extracting the archive from and to this drive took 1 minute 46. I copied the RAR files to a second...

Hello, I've got 30GB Maxtor 53073h4 (Diamondmax Plus 45) as Primary master, and 30GB IBM-dtla-307030 (IBM 75gxp series) primary slave. Both running as UDMA 5. AMD 1.2 Ghz on a KT133a MB. Any operation on the IBM that involves reading and writing to it at the same time is slow.

I have an old Dell Latitude laptop with a 30 GB hard drive which I only am currently using 8 GB. I cannot afford to have this machine die on me. My business is based on it. I know it's getting to the age when the hard drive will wear out. I'm looking for ideas on how best to avoid or prepare...

This is a HighPoint RocketRaid 100 ATA raid card. Not scsi, sorry. Have a raid 1 with Win XP. 1st drive died. Had broken raid 1 message. Shut down and replaced 1st drive with new drive. Powered up, went into raid utility and selected "choose replacement drive and rebuild". Correct drive was...

Hello All, Am building a box for a friend, and I would like to reduce the potential of bottle neck at the HD, but avoid using a Raid 0 setup. Build Details: Q6600, Abit IP35 Pro, 2GB Corsair XMS2, Black XP, etc. I originally thought we would do a Raptor for the OS and applications, and a 500GB...

I'm using 2 - WD 36 gig Raptors in Raid 0, driven by the ICH5/R controller (865PE, Epox 4PDA2+). I would like to eliminate the Raid array and go to a conventional config using a single Raptor as the Master boot drive containing the OS--Win2Kpro. The single Raptor will be connected to Port 0 of...

Which software will allow me to move "installed" WINDOWS applications from the D:\ logical drive to C:\ logical drive in an NTFS WIN XP PRO SP2 system ? I own True Image 9 but not sure if TI9 can move installed WIN apps from one drive to another. I have a Laptop that was laid out with a 3 GBYTE C:...

My PC has 1 GB RAM. A 128MB Smart Media memory card suddenly won't work in the camera. WINXP PRO SP2 testing that card in drive I: says that card is OK. I can store and view images on the card from images on the D: hdd. But the camera aborts using this card. Camera works fine with other memory...

I am looking for software to securely erase a few files from 100 GB and 200 GB IDE ATA hard drives used as backup. Cost is an issue, lower the better. I do not want to erase all files from these hard drives. Drives are on WIN XP PRO system and a WIN98SE system. What software are you having success...

Yesterday on my XP pc, the 100 GB Maxtor HDD (made in 2003) suddenly began required many accesses to do a simple display directory. Over a very few minutes the drive went from instant response to 10-20 seconds of clicking to do same dir list. Then while trying to list files, gave message "Drive F...

On my win98SE PC I have an internal Mobile Dock that allows me to insert from front bay any size 3.5 inch IDE hard drive into this Dock. I am looking for, with no success, an external hard drive enclosure that will allow me to change hard drives like the internal Dock allows. Need vendors who...

I have an Interface box that allows a 3.5INCH 120GB MAXTOR EIDE HDD to attached to a PCMCIA card and run with WIN98SE on a Tecra 8000 Laptop. In WINDOWS 98 and in a MS_DOS window, the HDD works OK. When I run MAXTOR HDD diagnostics by booting into DOS with a floppy, MAXTOR diags cannot see the...

My WIN98SE with a Promise ULTRA66 plug-in controller has a 20GN MAXTOR as a non-bootable on PRIMARY. The 20GB drive is in a removable tray which I can turn power on or off. The UKTRA66 controller and drive seems to be working. My problem. ----------- When I turn off power to the 20GB drive in the...

How can I run PowerMax booting from DOS so the HDD on PCMCIA is seen by PowerMax? What drivers do I need? Thank you, dave_s

I am looking for info from any Toshiba TECRA 8000 Laptop owner who is currently using and computer device attached through PCMCIA where PCMCIA works when PC is booted from DOS. I need to run software to diagnose a HDD that is attached to PCMCIA port. Software demands being run from DOS boot...

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I would like to back up my whole Win XP system to an external hard drive and would like some recommendations as to what software I should use? ...ie is the Backup that comes with XP Pro ok? How would I restore XP in the event of a failure? Does it do open files etc? ....is there a single bit of...

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