I have been researching external Hard Drive Enclosures for a few dyas now. I see some sites where the vendor says "Supports drives up to 400 GB !!" or in some cases "up to 360 GB", and others say "500 GB" I am confused, as to why the limitation. I question whether there really is a limit but I...

Hi I've just squeezed another drive in to the last space possible to do so in my case. As its not right behind the air intake fan like the other drives it feels warmer to the touch than all the others even though its just idling - the drive isn't accessed at the moment as it doesn't contain...

I run XP Pro on a home machine. I have a new SATA hard drive. Before formatting it, is it advisable to let the new hard drive warm up by running it for an hour or more in order to eliminate any further thermal creep?

I have a failing notebook. I thought it was just the original 2.5" HDD inside that failed. So I plugged in this spare HDD (that is in perfect working condition), and the spare worked for about 10 minutes but then this second HDD failed too! When I plug in both HDDs to an USB enclosure, the...

Hi all, I did a backup with Acronis Trueimage onto an external (NTFS) USB hard disk. I need to install Linux on another partition of this same disk, and before I'd like to copy the image somewhere for safety. Is it safe to copy it to a FAT32 partition of another USB hard disk, or should I reformat...

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It sounds like your drive has some serious errors and unfortunately I don’t think a data recovery software solution will be up to the task in your case. You will have to look for a physical data recovery solution. Look for a reliable data recovery company. We have 1000 PCs in our office and we...

My wife's computer has a Maxtor 80 GB PATA Primary (IDE1) Master C: and a Maxtor 200GB PATA Primary (IDE 1) Slave D:. It's Using WinXP Pro on an AMD 1.1GHz processor. It's a Gateway Motherboard. The 80 GB is used only for OS and Program Files. The 200GB has all her documents and has lost it's...

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...

Hello: I've had a WD (Western Digital) 80GB hard drive fail. The drive (secondary or D: drive) still 'appears' under 'My Computer' (Win98) Double clicking on this drive gives a 'Device not available' error window. Properties shows 0 bytes total and 0 bytes available.

Hey, I'm hoping somebody here will be able to give me some guidance as I'm running out of ideas... Background: Partners computer decided randomly one morning that her system HDD doesn't work anymore. I tried all sorts of bios settings, cable and jumper combinations but the bottom line is that her...

I use XP Pro/SP2 at home. The PC hardware is a bit slow. I have got a 500GB hard drive mainly to use as a backup for my main data. Is there anything (perhaps in XP or in NTFS or from good sense) which suggests that I'm wiser not to make the whole 500 GB into one partition?

OK...boot to it and check My Computer. If the Raptor doesn't show up, right click the My Computer desktop icon and select Manage. It better show up in there. If it does, I think you can format it. After that, it should show up in My Computer. If you get that far, we can go from there. Good...

yes i believe i can

If you still have your other good installation on your old hard drive, can you set it back to the boot drive? Stevo

yes i can access the bios before it gets into boot up mode

Can you get to the bios before it locks? Stevo

Okay so I bought a new hard drive, I bought a Western Digital 150GB Raptor hard drive. It the 10K Rpm 16mb cache one, it's nice. Anyways I have an old WD HD in there it's ide, but this Raptor is SATA, that's no problem because I have a MSI K8N SLI-F motherboard. So here is my problem. When I put in...

When I installed WinXP I remember an option to protect important system files against modification. Or was the enabling afterwards somewhere in an adminstration panel of WinXP ? I cannot remember exactly. However when I want to install now a couple of personal firewalls (one after the other - of...

I am wonding what type of increase i will see in a RAID 5 setup using SATA 150 7200 RPM drives vs SATA 150 10K drives (WD Raptors). The raptors are much more expensive than some of the 7200 counterparts, but the access times are much faster. I would be using these in a standard workstation...