Sandisk, in it's infinite wisdom, didn't include any way to attach their Cruzer Mini drives to something like a keychain (the lanyard doesn't count). I've seen some references to drilling a hole in the Micro version, but the Minis have that LED on the end, and I'm afraid of damaging...

I need advice on what drive setup to use. I have never set up a RAID let alone even used a SATA drive, always been a basic EIDE/ATA plain vanilla hard drive storage person, built quite a few PC over my life though. I am getting into video editing and need a fast large capacity hard disk storage...

Andrew Schulman wrote: I've had six of them go within the year, total crap. The Caviars are complete junk. Stick with Maxtor or Seagate. Six is a lot, but anecdotes as a rule are useless. For an attempt at a rational view of the subject, see the Reliability Survey at ...

I have 3 ST3120026AS drives, and they, for me, suck. The power and data connectors are weaker than the cables that connect to them . I even had a connector locating tab break off . So - after a *lot* of cable replacements - I'm in a quandry, drop 'em in the trash and buy WD ... or...

Hi group, I've had to format my hard drive around 6 times in the past 6 months because of a corrupted MBR. Initially, a few runs of CHKDSK in the recovery console and a running FIXMBR has fixed the problem for a couple of months only to have the same problem happen again. Thinking it was the...

Greetings, Currently I am running 2 WD800JB's in a Raid 0 configuration on a Promise Fasttrak 100 which is mounted in a Abit TH7II. My new motherboard an Asus P4C800-E has 2 sets of SATA headers. One controlled by the Promise PDC20378 controller and the other by the Intel ICH5 controller. My...

Sorry for repost, I posted to sci.electronics before, which does not exist. Hi! I'm planning a robotic facility that needs to maintain hardware (exchange defective parts) autonomously for up to 1000 years. One of the problems is to maintain firmware and operating systems for this period. What...

I noticed that my new Maxtor drive had acoustic management enabled (mid-range, 0xC0) and I spent the afternoon trying to find a utility to turn it off, finally finding one from Hitachi. I've got 3 HDs, a CDRW and a DVDRW plus about 5 fans in my machine, so a little actuator noise isn't going to be...

Windows XP Pro SP3 My system doesn't have support for "hot swapping" eSATA, so there's no eject or "safely remove" option. Is disabling an eSATA disk a safe alternative? Will the OS and disk internal cache be flushed? -- Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

My system doesn't have support for "hot swapping" eSATA, so there's no eject or "safely remove" option. Is disabling an eSATA disk a safe alternative? Will the OS and disk internal cache be flushed? -- Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

Hy, getting this error message "primary master hard disk fail"; after booting an ibm hard disk with a "maxtor draco" macintosh disk. Award Plug&Play Bios says: 1st screen Detecting IDE Primary Master...... IC35L060AVER07-0 Detecting IDE Primary Slave...... Maxtor Draco

Can you do this? If so, what exactly can you achieve? For instance, can u do things such as install applications / uninstall applications etc from the image?

SMART reports it as BAD but I've booted using ultimatebootcd and ran a shedload of disk checking utilities and its come up fine... Is it possible the SMART is incorrect?

I hit F4 to continue and it tries to boot into windows. Fails and reboots again. I assume this is bad!!!! Tried to get into BIOS but it asks for password and then goes straight back to SMART BAD screen....

Can anyone recommend an adapter that would allow me to connect a spare IDE drive to a USB connector on my desktop? I want to Acronis image direct to this drive. I'm not familiar with these adapters, as I usually image to a partition, then copy across to a USB drive. I thought it would be easier...

I've just installed a 320MB LaCie drive and I want to create a 50MB logical partition but when I go to Control Panel/Performance & Maintenance/Disk Management I can't see any option to create a partition (XPH+SP2). I've tried r/clicking on any drive and none of them give me this option. Has my...

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I have some questions about PowerQuest's Drive Image 7 program. I am currently using Drive Image 2002 on my Windows XP Dell 2.4 ghz. machine, and a Maxtor external USB drive using a 1.1 usb port. The problem is, it takes forever to back up my hard drive, and I have to sit there and put in one cdr...

Hi all, I work in sleep research. I have a bunch of optical discs that have older data we want to reanalyze. I have the optical drive (panasonic 7300) that was originally used to write the data. I need help in getting this drive back up and running. The data was originally recorded in the dos...

I look for a driver for a hewlett packard DAT Recorder C1536-00100. I can´t find it on the hp website. I use Windows 95. Is there anyone who can help me Bettina Lohmann