Hello. The last few days, I noticed ata2 errors in my old Debian/Linux box's dmesg and I worried about them. Does that mean my HDD(s) is/are failing? .... ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen sr 1:0:0:0: CDB: Test Unit Ready: 00 00...

I am thinking of speeding up my Windows system with a SSD (Solid State Drive). I have some questions about it. How much would a SSD typically speed up a Windows system? I currently use Windows XP Home. Would a SSD work better with Windows 7? What files are usually put on the SSD? What is...

(feel free to remove the other group) Windows XP SP3 GA-EP45-UD3L (motherboard) Q9550 (CPU) 4 SATA drives, on master 0-3 32 GB OCZ Vertex SDD 150 GB Raptor 750 GB WD

Why would PM8 move files when more space was added at the end of the partition? I used Partition Magic 8 to take unallacoated space in FRONT of an XP partition and make the partition larger. There was another 40gigs in front of the unallacated space, used by a win98 partition and a...

I bought a eSATA cable trying to take advantage of the extra speed with the interface. I can't never get the external drive recognized. Even if I took enclosure off and push the connection all the way. (It is rather loose when connecting from external drive). I've tried it on both a laptop and...

Is low-level re-formatting necessary to erase viruses from a non-booting HD? A neighbor has been re-building his system due to a viral infection, and he has gone from a 70GB internal HD to a 500GB internal HD, and because he can't bring himself to toss out the old infected 70GB HD, he wants to run...

In http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/749797.html, the writer claims that if you put your Windows OS on the C: partition and your apps on the D: partition, you can save time in rebuilding your system if just the C: partition crashes because the apps on the D: partition are...

Hi, I bought this tidy little 4 HD Mini Tower Unit (Addonics) unit and thought I'd try it with my Acer Aspire ONE ebook. Didn't see any drives, I put in. Used USB as there is no esata on ebook. Then thought maybe the XP ebook does not work with the unit.

Hi! In a recent download, there was a file included with an idiotic filename: Aleksandr Bazhbeuk-Melikov, Natalia Goncharova, Lado Gudiashvili, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Igor' Terent'ev, Unknown Artist, Sigizmund Valishevskii, Il'ia Zdanevich and Kirill Zdanevich - Sofii Georgievne Mel'nikovoi....

Long ago, when I first started using disk managers (probably PartitionMagic) and shortly thereafter stumbled onto the practice of copying the operating system, day by day it slowly and pleasantly took a big load off of my shoulders. Maybe that practice is just for enthusiasts. Whatever. If you...

I just talked to my friend who gave me the Dell computer, and he said that his repair guy told him the reason his harddrive failed may (likely?) have been a surge or something coming from the power supply. Is this a cause of harddrive failure? A common cause? A conceivable cause but really a...

Windows XP Home SP3 runs very, very sluggishly and reports I/O errors with certain hard drives connected to a Silicon Image SiL3512 SATA PCI controller card (two samples), but only when another HD is connected to the motherboard's built-in controller. With both HDs connected to the Silicon Image...

Looking for a Windows based hard drive scan utility. The one that comes with Windows is useless in that if it has difficulty reading a sector, it keeps banging away until successful then never reports the problem! Looking for a program that reports a single error and not keep re-trying. Currently...

Hi, Just as I was going to back up my 1.5TB drive to my other, identical drive I dropped it while spinning. It was in a case and did not hit hard yet it won't spin up any more. I MUST get the data off it. When I plug it in it beeps (buzzes) periodically but does not spin up. There are no dents or...

Hi, Arno. I've been wondering this for a long time. When a modern HD is copying a large file that's not fragmented, it goes really fast. I imagine that on its own it would fill its little 16MB (or more) buffer memory, jump over and writes it out, then goes back for more. But is what's...

Anne Onime wrote: Some used Samsung disks fell my way, so I wanted to test them. I downloaded their diagnostics utility, and it give an error "out of interrupt stacks" I tried different versions of DOS on the floppy, still same bug. Seagate's Seatools has never given me trouble. ...

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...

In article , wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:25:19 GMT, (GMAN) put finger to keyboard and composed: In article , (Mike S.) wrote: In...

A simple batteryless anti-forgetting anti-lost alarm for USB sticks How this alarm works? Clip the jingle bell on your trousers (socks, shoes...) before plug USB stick into a public computer. After using the public computer, if you forgot to unplug the USB stick and walk away, the bell will ring...

Hello. Is it me or does Windows do not put deleted files, on USB flash drives, into their recycle bins? I never noticed that behavior before until tonight with a client's old Windows 2000 SP4 PC and my own old XP Pro. SP3 PC. Do other OS' behave like this too like Windows 7, Mac OS X, Linux,...