In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote: I woke up overnight (about six hours since I last used my computer without any problems) and noticed my old Debian/Linux box was acting weird (IRC chat bot/rbot gave errors about corrupted database, detached screen...

Hi all, I have a strange phenomenon with a few weeks old usb stick "patriot rage xt 16gb". Formatted with NTFS, put my work docs onto it and suddenly noticed a defect pdf and another one days later. Became suspicious about it and did a media test with the h2testw program from heise.de. This...

Recently upgraded from Intel 845 IDE board to Intel 915 SATA board with one IDE channel. I know it's not much but the MB, CPU and memory are faster and it makes a difference and I'm a gearhead, what can I say. The problem is that I have to run my CD burner and extra HDs on a Silicon Image 0680...

My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 installed. When I try to copy a partition, I get the following error message: "Error 626. Operation is to be performed on a hard drive not visible from boot-mode." This error message occurs when PM8 goes into

Hi all, I am actually trying Acronis TIH 2011. * But because a backup is a very sensible file, do you know if TIH stores some recovery records like WinRAR does or like you can do externally with QuickPAR? Thanks to these records, you can recover a corrupted archive. I searched in the Acronis...

Are Transcend SD cards reliable? Is Transcend good at honoring warranties? Thank you in advance for all replies. -- When I am in the kitchen, I often kick one of my cat's balls. After I kick it, he will sometimes play with it for a few seconds to several minutes. His favorite are the ones...

I'd like to buy a Samsung HD204UI (Spinpoint F4EG). As this would be my first 2TB drive, I'd like to know if it runs hot (i.e. if it requires cooling), or if it can safely be hosted in a Lacie Ext. USB enclosure with no fans. I Know that practically every lower capacity drive (up to 1 TB,...

I've got a disk drive which seems to have turned up a bad block, but for which auto reallocation is failing; so I'm looking for advice.... The disk is: babs:525$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen,...

They say that the 6Gbps ports aren't affected, but I think that's simply because Intel doesn't produce those ports itself, those are produced by 3rd parties such as Realtek or VIA, etc. Yousuf Khan Sandy Bridge chipset flaw to cost Intel $1 billion | ZDNet "All 6-series “Cougar Point”...

I want to remove a USB drive using devcon. I just want a user to be able to unplug the thing without doing anything else. This is partial output from the "devcon hwids *" command. The "devcon remove" command works with any of the id's under "WD 3200JB External USB Device", but then it prompts...

I though I remember a discussion some months back where it was impossible to get SMART data from a USB attached drive. Am I mis-remembering? I Found a free Windows utility which seems to work fine called Acronis drive monitor. It also monitors your drive health and pops up when it detects...

My laptop has only 500GB disk space. But I have about 5 TB data and growing. I want to buy something that can hold that much data. And I can easily access the data from my laptop. Most cost-effective drive is 2TB - 3TB USB or ESATA external drive. So I need about 2 to 3 such drives and swap...

Hi I was about to buy Hard Disk Sentinel and then thought it might be a good idea to find out if there are any others I should look at first. Any recommendations? Thanks Ian

I upgraded the HD and installed a SATA one, cloned the old HD and removed it. Everything else is exactly as it was, including not touching the connector block that the DBD/CD player is plugged in to. Now the DVD/CD player does not read, but does respond to "eject" commands from the Explorer...

Ant writes: Assuming my storage Quantum IDE/PATA drive is dying and I can't replace it right away, I guess I can live without it for a bit for now. I have three questions: 1. How do I tell Linux/Debian to enable write again without rebooting/restarting the...

I have 2 WD Elements drives stacked up, and after a long copy from one to the other they were very hot. WD Diags says the SMART temperature score went down to a low of 88 for both. These drives have practically no ventillation. Can this weaken magnetic wells on the surface? Would chkdsk/r...

Hello. I am trying to figure out and fix a client's old Sony Vaio laptop/notebook with 1 GB of RAM and 32-bit Vista Business. Basically, it doesn't load up its desktop fully. I do see a graphical splash screen loader and then a black desktop with a movable white mouse cursor, but that's it....

"Adam" wrote in message ... I am interested in buying another drive for my ASUS N61JQ-X1 notebook. Two drives currently under consideration are ... 1) Seagate Momentus 7200.4 2) Western Digital Scorpio Black ...

Hi, One of our backup drives is failing so I am going to replace it with a WD Caviar Green 2 TB drive. This is on a Windows XP x86 box. Should we get an EARS drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514 WD20EARS $99.99 with free shipping Since this is one...

I have been looking for an ESata port multiplier board, since the built-in Promise T3 ESata controller on my K9A2 Platinum does not directly support port multiplier functionality and I want to buy an external ESata device that needs port multiplier functionality ( ICY DOCK MB662USEB-2S Pearl...