When I right-clicked a hard disk in Window$ and hit Format, was it the hard disk controller that took over to format a particular sector on the disk? Or was it the OS? I wanted to reduce the fault tolerance level of the formatting process such that it would mark a sector as bad when there was...

Am interested to display the size of the $UsnJrnl on an XP partition. How can I do this? I think some app has set journal logging on for one of my partitions. My defragger often reports that $Extend\$UsnJrnl:$J is in several parts but doesn't show it's size. Is there a way to tell which apps...

Who are some manufacturers of RAID controllers that would work with Solid State Disks? I would like to start a search to find a product that would allow me to have 4 or more SSDs in a RAID configuration. thank you for any tips

Hi. I have several WD mybook essential USB drives and I'd like to check them on my 64 bit vista system. So I've downloaded winDLG from the WD website, but somehow I can't check my drive using that program. Chdk from windows finds bad clusters on one of the drives, so now I'm worried about the...

Can I make Storage work thru two USB hubs? Windows7 ultimate Dell Dimension 4600 I need more usb ports and have exhausted my options for internal ports. I have a universal flash memory card reader with 4 card slots.

Hi. Does anyone know how important it is for an external drive, like a WD 'mybook' external usb drive, to be in a horizontal or vertical position during operation? In the manual, it says it's important not to treat the disk as a portable device, not to move the disk during operation and some other...

Here are two threads which suggest that Seagate's ES.2 enterprise class drives may just be select-on-test 7200.11 drives with tweaked firmwa http://forum.hddguru.com/seagate-st31000324ns-wrong-and-t14574.html http://forum.hddguru.com/seagate-st31000340ns-seen-bios-st31000340as-t14694.html Is...

Here is a Maxtor OneTouch 4 external enclosure with a Hitachi model HTS541616J9SA00 disc drive: http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=onetouch&message.id=6436#M6436 I believe the drive is original. There are discussions at the HDD Guru forums that mention similar combinations. -...

This Seagate forum thread shows inferior performance results for Barracuda drives installed vertically as opposed to horizontally: http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=17546#M17546 Can anyone offer a reason for the difference? BTW the...

The following software provides terminal access to various Seagate hard drive models. This demo version is read-only, which means you can read from the SA but you won't be able to write to it. The author advises that "setting LBA numbers, serial number etc are dangerous (7200.9 - 7200.10). All...

I've never understood the shock specs of hard drives. Does anyone know the practical meaning of the following spec? Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/desktop/Barracuda%207200.10/100402371f.pdf 2.9.5.2 Nonoperating shock - 3 and 4...

On my IDE PATA 250GB, the HDD light always on and (very) quiet continuous whirring sound from HDD. This was used as a system drive for WinXP and all applications seemed to work I reseated the cable & connectors. Now HDD light is back to normal (not on for most of time) and the sounds of disk...

Hello! I read about Seagate File Recovery v2.0 (https://services.seagate.com/diysoftware.aspx). Is it any good or is it simple like any other file recovery tools (especially free ones)? Thank you in advance. -- "What is this? A center for ants?!" "...What?" "How can we be expected to teach...

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Gary wrote: What does it usually mean when I run a disk scan for bad sectors on c drive and the result is "Windows was unable to complete the disk scan" The symptom is a blue screen saying that there is most likely a bad piece of hardware. Download the free Everest utilities, from the...

I am looking for a 1 TB HDD to go into my Dell PowerEdge 400SC, which I use as a general purpose desktop running Mandriva Linux.This is to replace an existing ST3400633 SATA drive. The old drive is working fine, but is about 3 years old, so I want to pre-emptively replace it. I am thinking of...

Is there some undelete software that can run only locally and undelete from a mapped network ntfs disk without the aid of an client/agent installed/running on that remote computer?

Here's the SMART report from Everest about this drive. It's got one Pending Sector, one Offline Uncorrectable Sector, and one Reallocated Sector already. So one sector got reallocated, while the other one is pending and/or uncorrectable. What would the explanation for this be? Yousuf Khan ...

Been trying to enable AHCI mode in the BIOS of my new motherboard, but XP always ends in failure. I have Ubuntu Linux in multi-boot, and that has absolutely no problems booting from a SATA drive running in AHCI mode. Try to boot the XP in the same mode, and it reboots right away. I've tried...

Hello, I decided to replace HD in my laptop. It is HP Pavilion DV2000. I need some kind of adapter to connect it to my desktop (my desktop have SATA and IDE drives) to clone the old HD to a new one. It says my disk is SATA Serial - but I see it is not regular SATA adapter. Here are pictures of my...