Hello all, I need some help with a problem I've been having with my Maxtor DiamondMax 9 80Gb hard disk. I use this as a secondary drive for storing data and games. I've had the drive a few months now, and I keep hearing clunking noises from it. This occurs when the drive is very busy, and when...

I am trying to upgrade my boot drive, and when I ghost my entire drive, then boot up the machine with the source drive to inspect the target drive, and start PartitionMagic to do so, PartitionMagic complains that the geometry of the partition table doesn't match the drives actual geometry. Fair...

Sorry, didn't see this post until just now since I've been focusing on the storage newsgroups. Yes, I was able to remove the bad HDD and put another HDD in its place. And, both good HDDs were detected. Also, a friend of mine suggested that I configure the HDD as master rather than use cable...

HP pavilion xf255 laptop with WinXPP. Just when the WinXPP splash screen goes black (just before the Welcome screen) a "rapid fire" of clicks is momentarily heard. This doesn't bode well for the life of the 2.5" HDD. I've already tried chkdsk /f on the volume and there were no errors to be...

I have a HUGE PROBLEM. ok. its like this. I'm working with a 120GB Hard drive, devided in to 2 partitions, both NTFS, one for system (windows, program files ect.) and one for files (mp3's, videos, documents..) 3 hours ago i wanted to reblast my pc, it was working kind of slow and had too much...

I bought Paragon Hard Disk Manager 5.5 a couple of weeks ago to resize my boot partition on a Small Business Server 2000 system. When I tryed to install the product, the installer reported " the InstallShield Engine (iKernel.exe) could not be installed. iKernal.exe could not be copied to...

Recently as some may have read, I have been having trouble getting XP to boot onto a RAID 0 array, using the onboard RAID controller on my Intel D875PBZ motherboard (ICH5-R). I have two SATA Western Digital (WD) Raptor 36GB drives, hooked up to the Serial ATA ports of my motherboard. I created...

Hi, Today one of my IBM 60GXP 41gb drives spontaneously died. It now just makes a beep-click, beep-click, beep-click sound only. It appears to have gone offline and is no longer seen by the drive controller. Drive Fitness Test cannot see it either. The drive does still spin up however and...

According to some IBM (probably now Hitachi) documentation I have, the DJNA drives do "Automatic Drive Maintenance (ADM)" every 6 days (when powered on continuously that long). Does anybody here know any details of what they do as part of ADM? The documentation I have doesn't really give any...

which of the following 4-port SATA-RAID cards would be the preferred brand...? i can get the intel card cheapest but would want the most reliable card for win2K. Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 2410SA, 64 MB ECC Intel SRCS14L, SATA-150 Raid Controller, 4 Port, 64MB ECC, PCI Escalade 8500-4, 4 Port,...

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 04:49:35 GMT "Knack" wrote: Why does the IBM web site have links to the Hitachi web site for more information about IBM's HDDs? IBM sold their drive business to Hitachi some time ago.

Excerpt from IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium Tape Drive: SCSI Reference ERASE CDB: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Bit | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Byte | 7 |...

I'm interested both in the "pre-packaged" drives and those which the user can put in a shell kit. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------ "Today's problems were yesterday's solutions" Delete the 999 to email

Do you think a USB 2.0 flash drive would be fast enough that it could be treated as a removable hard disk? It would be a replacement for a dying SCSI Jaz drive. (I don't expect it to be as fast as a SCSI device). An alternative would be a SCSI Zip drive. Thanks! -Mark

Hi: I've upgraded my machine and take an hard drive from an old machine with info I need on it and installed in the new XP Machine. Windows Explorer does not see the drive. I understand I have to partition this drive and my question is, will this erase any info on that drive? Thanks, Xeroid

I just took a Maxtor 120GB drive (one of the first Diamond 5400 RPM drives from them) that I wasn't using and added it to my system as a second drive, formatted with NTFS under WinXP Pro w/SP1 and the F: partition. I then began storing music files on it as I'm getting ready to build or buy a home...

You dont say what OS is involved. If its XP it can get seriously confused if it can see the original and the clone during the first boot after the copy. The trick is to physically disconnect the 40GB drive for the first boot after the clone. I dont use MaxBlast for cloning myself so it may be...

I will be installing WXP Pro Sp1 (slipstreamed) on a RAID 0 with a 160Gb capacity. Will windows see the entire drive capacity or only a portion of it?

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:46:04 GMT "Someone" wrote: I have a 120GB SE Model that was manufactured April 2002 and it failed on me in September of 2002. I haven't been able to convince western digital to take it back and give me a replacement under warranty. They ...

My current C drive is 80GB. I want to upgrade it to a 160GB drive. Can I do a simple copy of everything on this drive to a 160GB drive THEN replace the 80GB with the 160GB as drive C? Will Windows XP boot and everything else works as before or do I have to reinstall Windows XP and other software...