I'm having this weird issue when installing Windows on a new drive. I used GParter to repartition the drive into a small system partition and a larger data partition. When booting the windows CD to install, I see what appears to be 2 hard disks, one called Disk on disk , another called Disk 0 at...

Why are desktop PC sold with DVD writer and Dvd reader drives ? A DVD writer is also able to read DVD discs, so why two drives ?

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:...

I have a FIC SD11 motherboard holding a Maxtor hard rive. The drive light will not go off and it will not boot. It skips the hard drive as it tries to boot from a floppy or the CDROM. I have changed the drive cable but it mases no difference. Could it be that I have a bad piece of memory? ...

My HDD is dead. The BIOS doesn't detect it but I need the data on it. What can I do?

Hi I have a new maxtor 160GB drive (3 months) I ran disk check on it and it hanged with bad clusters in different files. When I rebooted all directories were gone and explorer gave the disk not formatted massage. How can I map the bad clusters and rebuild dir info to save some of the files?

Hi, I'm responsible of maintaining quite a pile of computers and to save time I have stored disk images of a fresh windows install with all appropriate applications, drivers and settings. This makes it quick to restore a computer to its 'original' state. However apparently is disk geometry...

Hi! I After a great deal of effort, I have been able to obtain a 5.25" floppy disk from the mid 1980s. I would like to access the data, but I have only a 3.5" floppy and flsh drive access on my machine. Shall be grateful for your suggestions! Thanks, - yaanai

Has anyone else had problems with Diskeeper 9 and USB or firewire drives? Here's my issues: - almost always says that my USB drive needs to be defragged (way more than on any other of my internal drives which keep basically the same number and size of files) - it hangs at times when defragging...

I am building a unit that will be used only for storage storage, perhaps up to 1T or more, so it would hold at least 4 drives. Who makes sturdy cases with no bare edges to cut my hands, with lots of bays and good ventilation? (No bling here--no lights, clear sides, no chrome or mag wheels....). ...

Are there any known issues or problems with having the setup shown below? My question relates specifically to having the boot drive with Native Command Qeueing, and the data drives without. Boot Drive: Seagate 7200.9 80GB SATA2 w/NCQ Data Drive: Two WD 2500KS 250GB SATA2

I'm planning to install a new 200GB IDE hard drive in my PC (a Dell Dimension 8200) which I plan to make the boot drive with Windows XP Pro installed. However, I would still like to access files on the old one. I believe I just need to make the old one a slave, after installing an new one, to...

Previously DonLogan xxx@ wrote: Have a 200 gig data drive, ntfs, one partition. Somehow it has got in trouble. Explorer says "X is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable." Rebooted & now it has lost it's label & says "Local Disk" & "the disk is drive x is not...

In article , DonLogan xxx wrote: Have a 200 gig data drive, ntfs, one partition. Somehow it has got in trouble. Explorer says "X is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable." Rebooted & now it has lost it's label & says...

I haven't seen a computer sold with a floppy drive for many years now. However, I have a program that requires me to install it from the floppy drive. I can read it from another computer with a floppy drive and get the image, but I'm looking for a program that will emulate a floppy drive or floppy...

This week (Apr 23 - Apr 29) Circuit City is offering a Seagate ST310011ARK (100GB, 7200 RPM, 2MB cache, PATA) HDD for $40 after rebate. The ST310011ARK is a 7200.7 model. This seems like it might be useful as a second HDD for my six year old Dell Dimension 4100. I'm interested in downloading the...

I just bought a Dell which came with a SATA hard-drive. I want to put my old IDE hard drive into it as a secondary drive, but the connections don't match. Do I need to get a simple IDE-SATA converter (like the one at http://www.computervideogear.com/sata/serial-ata-ide-converter.htm) and just plug...

A have a Maxtor 20GB 2B020H1 which is doing the spin-up then spin-down thing. The controller says ATHENA ATA2-PLUS, FBII 301430100. I found this site http://www.hddtech.co.uk/MaxtorFailureSymptoms.htm and my symptoms match precisely. So I bought a working 2B020H1 used. I swapped the contoller but...

This is an alert to the community I felt compelled to share based on my recent experience with Adaptec's SNAP Servers. We had a simple plan: to back up one SNAP to another using the S2S replication software allegedly designed for this purpose. After spending over $1000 on the licenses, some hours...

Hi, I apologize in advance for the cross-post as well as the length of the post; I have previously posted this in an ASUS group and have contacted the various suppliers involved, but I screwed around with this issue for better part of a day with no luck and no one on the ASUS group had any ideas...