I have a computer with an IDE DVD+R and USB 2.0 DVD+-RW. After installing Roxio 8.0, neither device shows up within Roxio. Both devices show as drive letters on Windows 2003, and both show in Device Manager correctly. What would cause the devices to be invisible to Roxio 8.0? -- Will

Hi guys, I need to install RAID 5 on a 226 Xseries, with 3 hard disks available, if anyone has a link for documentation available online. thx

Does anyone know what type of quality this HDD is? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8816268307&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 Is it any good?

I need a SCSI cable to connect my server to a Cristie SCSI dat drive. I believe it is VHDCI to SCSI but I am unsure which type I need or indeed wether or not there are different types. Does anyone have an answer? Where can I buy one from in the UK? Thanks in advance

I have a 0ne year old computer my son built for me. I run win xp with P 4 chip. I have two hard drives installed and the system runs great. The "F" drive is used to store digital images I have scanned. My question is that within the last 2 or 3 weeks when I try to use the window disk cleanup...

Here's my issue in short: What I Did: (1)Booted from the Knoppix LiveCD, ran "ntfsresize" from the Root Shell and resized my Windows partition to 60gigs. (ntfsresize -s 60g /dev/hda1, or something like that). Note: My hard drive is 80 gigs (2)Ran fdisk and deleted the Windows partition in order...

Odie wrote: David Maynard wrote: Folkert Rienstra wrote: snip Soory, but your reply was such an incoherent jumble I'm not going to bother.

I'm running XP Home (SP1) and my 1st drive is 160GB, containing 3 primary partitions formatted as NTFS. The 1st is the system/boot partition (C:) at 40GB, the other two being data drives at 40GB and 80GB (all sizes approx). I used Partition Magic 7 to delete the 2nd partition and to extend the...

I have an older ATT 730 PC w/intel pentium, and a Western Digital Caviar 31600 1.6GB HDD. I use it as a second PC, it runs W98SE OK but slow. The HDD has died and I would like to replace it with either the same size, or preferably a larger one (so long as it remains a simple HDD install --nothing...

Hello I have an old Thinkpad 1300i series, and my original 6Gb Hitachi HDD just went down! I tried a low level format, it ran for a few months, but now it's full of bad sectors and doesn't even boot. I bought a used 20Gb Ibm Travelstar to replace it but it is not recognized in the Bios...

When I dismount an USB device (external hard disc or USB memory stick) from the the systray a dialog window pops up informing me: "USB Mass Storage Device" can now be safely removed from the system Can I somehow suppress this dialog window? I just want WinXP silently to remove the drive letter...

I have a Dell 8400 The SATA hd that came with the Dell has gotten corrupted and a "Repair Windows XP installation" isn't working. I would like to recover some data from this hd if at all possible. I have a 60gb Maxter D540x-4K HD that I would like to install as the Master and then read the SATA...

So I've had a Maxtor One Touch II for awhile now doing nightly backups with Norton Ghost. Today I needed to get something off of the backup and I try to go into the drive and low and behold it is not in My Computer! Norton didn't bother telling me this at any point so I had to look in the logs, and...

Hi, I have recently upgraded my system with a new motherboard, and installed window XP Media Center Edition. I had installed a Maxtor 6L200M0 serial ATA Harddrive as a second drive, partitioned it, and was using it fine in the old system. Now, under windows, there are no partitions showing up in...

has anyone used this tool on their sata hdd's I was wondering what to enable and what not to enable? I have 4 hdd's in a raid config, all 250 gb, i have not put an OS on them yet.

One of the drives in my PC is a Seagate ST3200822AS, a 200GB SATA. It's actually the boot drive. I haven't had any problems or heard any noises, but today I had occasion to fire up the Control Panel/AdminTools/Computer Mgmt/Disk Management panel in Windows XP, and it claimed that the disk capacity...

Previously Tony wrote: Hi, I'm running a Linksys NSLU2 with a 60GB USB2 drive attached to it. works great but I cannot figure out how to get the FTP server to work. There is an option to "enable FTP server" which I have checked but I am not able to FTP to...

Hi, I have a Lightscribe drive (HP made) that is about a year old. I love it, but it takes 28 minutes to burn a full label at highest quality. I was reading an article from HP that said "speed improvements would be made in the future due to release of updated drivers, allowing existing drives to...

These will go for probably less than half what they cost new. These are NEW drives in unopened factory sealed bulkpaq(s) There are 10 in total for auction. url: http://search.ebay.com/364622-B23_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8QQsatitleZ364622Q2dB23 (to see them...

I currently have a motherboard which can hold 168 Pin RAMs as well as 184 Pin DDRs. The motherboard offers 200 + 266 FrontSideSpeeed. I am now have to decide which RAMs I should take. Are 184 Pin DDRs faster than 168 PINs ? How much faster (without overclocking) ? 20% ? Which RAM type has more...