I should know this by now, but do harddrives spin down when one goes into winXP standby? In my defense, I got confused in win98SE, when I thought they were supposed to spin down if I went past the time limit set in the Power part of the control panel (which isn't standby in the first place), and...

I had previously bought two 1TB external hard drives a few years ago from a company which, it appears, has since gone out of business called Eagle Tech. Within a year one of the two hard drives died on me. I only used the hard drives to back up data. I am interested in buying another hard drive...

Hi folks... Would it be wise to put a 7,200rpm SATA drive in an external enclosure? I intend to use a laptop drive so I don't have to mess around with an extra power cable; and for portability. Possibly around 200GB formatted to exFAT. Would there be reliability, heat or power consumption issues?

Somehow I never get rid of all my problems and questions. How do I know how big my flashdrive is? Today I went to use my NIB flashdrive and it says there is no room to copy AVG11 to it (to install on another computer *before* going on the net.) PowerDesk shows my drive is only 1.07 gig big. I...

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The message said, roughly. You have a RAW drive. Chkdsk will not work with a RAW drive. This used to be a FAT32 drive that ran winME, and chkdsk used to work on it. Wha' happened? Can a HDD go bad just sitting around, like batteries do?

This is just a report. I pursue these things doggedly, even though I've known for a while that I can't rely on this flashdrive in the slightest. Perhaps you remember the 16 gig no-name flashdrive I bought used, which showed only 1 gig. GMAN recommended...

I want to figure out how eSATA/USB is used. Does the technology allow me to plug in an eSATA drive without a power cord to the drive? By comparison, Is it faster than an external USB 3.0 portable drive? Which doesn't require extra power cable either.

Any laptop with SATA 6.0 interface now? Are there also online reviews of technology or laptops?

I guess the standard says they are both at 6Gb/s. But are hard drives with one technology faster than ones with the other technology in reality? Can I find online reviews on hard drives?

MY seven-year old HP Pavilion runs XP home edition from the HP disks. It is updated to sp3. I wish to replace an old drive with a new (and larger) one. I Acronis clone the OS to an external drive, then clone it back to a new and larger replacement disk. I get "bad mbr". I tried a "fixmbr" but...

Al You like to know how things work. Go to http://hddscan.com/ and read the three papers shown in the green box near the top to the right. More than you ever wanted to know about hard drives. Stuart

I've often noticed that sometimes my boot hard disk goes crazy, disk activity light flickers constantly, system becomes unresponsive, but there's no particular process hogging the processor cores. I managed to watch one such incident while Hard Disk Sentinel was present in memory, and when I...

I have a 320gb Western Digital My Passport SE external hard drive, and I can "see" it in Windows 7. When I go to Devices it shows the device there, all drivers are installed and functioning properly (according to Windows that is), yet when going in to My Computer it does not show the drive as...

From the specs of a hard drive: # Shock (1/2 sine pulse): * Operating: 70 G * Non-operating: 300 G What does G stand for? Surely not "the force of gravity", as in, During laundh astronauts are subjected to 10 G" or some number of them.

Moving 80 gigs from one spot on a USB mechanicial hard drive to another spot on the same drivee I have a 500gig MyBook, USB external drive by WD, and I have to move 80 gigs from a FAT32 primary partition to a FAT32 logical partition, to make a slot for a new bootable primary partition, since I'm...

I bought Samsung 1.5 GB HDD and put it to the enclosure with E-Sata/USB interface. If connected by E-Sata the disc is recognized OK. If I use USB connection, the HDD is not recognized. The problem was partially solved with Disk Management- Import foreign disks. But every time I disconnect Samsung I...

gotta rave about my new ssd. For anyone who's um'ing and ar'ing about whether to go for an ssd I would say go for it. I've just fitted a new Intel X-25 160Gb drive, bit pricey but the speed increase is noticeable. My win7 pc boots up and shuts down in less than half the time of a normal sata...

BIOS won't recognize a TIVO SATA HD I have a Western digital WD3200AVJS SATA hard drive removed from a TIVO. I want to use it in a Windows machine. Dell 4600 Computer BIOS says there's no hard drive. I can boot a Linux Live CD, Partition, Format it NTFS, mount and copy files back and forth to...

Got the tivo drive working, thanks again. Loaded XPSP2; seems to be working fine. Time to clone the original IDE drive. I routinely use Acronis 10 to backup IDE system drives and restore to IDE drives with different partition geometry. When I tried to backup an IDE drive and restore to a SATA...