Since a few days when I delete a file or a folder in WinExplorer this is done immediately withour a popup requesting for a delete confirmation. I must have changes this unintendedly. How do I switch back to "delete only after confirmation" mode ? Wolfgang

I pulled a dumb stunt. When I installed the raid board on an XP/sp2 system, I selected the non-raid driver, which puts a bunch of files named pnp680.* (inf, sys, cat, etc.) in the system32 folder. Now windows just can't be coaxed into using the proper pnp680r (raid) files. Not by hook...

My previous disc drive was a Barracuda 7200.7 SATA ST380013AS. From the very beginning I noticed how noisy it was compared to a previous PATA Seagate I owned, ST340014A. Emailing Seagate technical support didn't help, they said the drive should be quiet, but it wasn't. Apparently Automatic...

Here are a few in-context snippets from a recent report "Hard disk test 'surprises' Google" Monday, 19 February 2007, 15:28 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6376021.stm The report said that there was a clear trend showing "that lower

I recently had a hard drive (18 gb) go bad and being that the system had a maintenance contract, the old hard drive was replaced by a new drive. After the new drive was installed, the old drive was sent back. My question is, what does the company do with the old hard drive? Will they refurbish...

Also gives some insights what is done in data recovery and names some cost figures. Not too much technical details, but still worth a read. Special focus is on RAID recovery. http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/02/14/raid_recovery/index.html Arno

Tony Nottingham England 27 February 2007 TO: All People Who Care A new European Chemical Testing Policy called REACH has now been finalised by the European

Hi: My 400GB Seagate 7200.9 SATA drive lost the partition info (just 1 partition with NTFS), all the files are there, but I can not access or restore it. I read all the info I can find on findpart and still stuck. When I tried findntfs copy option, I recovered tons of files, but not a...

Hi I'm currently running XP Pro. I've moved the location of "My Documents" to its own partition for easier backup etc. I have set this folder to keep private and I logon to XP with a password. I plan to install Vista and dual boot to XP for any applications that don't like Vista.

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I have a PC (an eMachine) with a HD which has the BIOS on it. I'm going to replace the HD, so how do I put the BIOS on the new HD? thanks in advance billy bob

I have a Primary 60 Gbte PATA drive on which XP Pro SP2 boots. There is also a second 200 Gbte SATA drive which is used for some Apps and also data. I want to swop the 60 Gbte Primary PATA drive for a new 500 Gbte SATA drive and have the present 200 Gbte SATA become the bootable drive , probably...

Every time a DOS app runs under Win2k, Windows pauses it until all the sleeping drives spin up. Is there a way to prevent the DOS boxes from enumerating the drives? -- Reply in group, but if emailing add another zero, and remove the last word.

Just bought a new DVD writer (got a good price). Manual says you need an 80 wire cable for optimal performance. At my local computer store, which is pretty big (but the clerks are clueless), all they had were regular 40 wire IDE cables. Clerks couldn't help me. What should I be looking...

I have a boot system created in 34 GB. hard disk and i syspreped it to install in other systems with differen hard disk sizes. The data occupy about 6 GB. One of this system has 17 GB. hard disks and i am having problems. The system doesn´t boot. I´m using Ghost 8.3 to clone the disk. Can somebody...

I get that error message periodically when attempting either a full or incremental backup using Acronis (files and folders selected). I contacted their support, they mentioned checking the disk for errors, I've never been able to find anything wrong with the drive itself. Has anyone run into this...

I just changed computer cases to a new Antec Solo "Quiet Mini Tower Case." It has the traditional hard drive trays with soft silicone grommets for the drive to sit on. Still heard the drive doing its thing being that I sit 2 feet away from the tower. Today I tried using the strap suspension...

LOOKING FOR: Seagate SCSI: 73GB and up drives. 1" high low profile. Ultra320 and SAS Seagate Fibre Channel: 146GB and up drives. 1" high low profile.

Are recertified/remanufactured drives such as warranty replacments marked in any way by manufacturers?

why does a 329K floppy disk with 1K block size need a 12-bit block number?...please help with this historic HDD question.