I installed XP Pro on a new 320G HD last week, and need to do it again. However, after 30 minutes it's gotten to the 4% mark. It took less than an hour last week. What's up? Should I kill it? Maybe I should have used the quick format available in install.

I would like to see a diagram of just how modern drive's read-wright arms are assembled. I am trying to understand how these get driven. In particular, I am interested in the magnetic configuration. I have tried Wikipedia and Google among other sources, biut what I have found, leaves out...

I got a 360G Buffalo Linkstation and I cannot cancel the 'Backup in Progress' status even though I followed the suggestion of powering it up by depressing the INIT red button at the back of the unit.Anyone else had success in cancelling the Backup in Progress status? I cannot do much maintainance...

Hi group, I know this is not a bina fide ibm.pc question, but where else to ask? I have this Sony DVD Recorder, RDR-HX710 with a built in hard drive, WD 160 GB. Late one night my fingers where faster than my brain and rather than reformatting a RW DVD I reformatted the HD, and lost all the cool...

This probably seems like a dumb question, but, I just bought a NexStar enclosure for my 500GB drives to run RAID 1 on. Drive appears fine in Vista 32 Home Premium and works fine....... How can I bee 100% the second drive is truely being written to and is the mirror?? Is there any way to verify...

Well, my $75 investment to restore the drive was worth it. As it turns out, it spun up for them, and they quickly recovered the entire drive to a 320G external drive I had given them. I'm now about to use unstoppable to create on a new HD a bootable copy of what they gave me. If that doesn't...

I put together a PC over a year ago with both a large SATA drive and an old IDE drive. The other day I noticed I could see the SATA drive, but not the IDE drive. At first, I thought maybe I didn't really have an IDE drive there. I needed to test a potentially damaged IDE drive and have a...

Hi All, I have recently added a second SATA HDD to my Linux workstation, which is housed in a very standard microATX case. The processor is a low-power Athlon X2 and stays at a reasonable 35-37°C with stock heatsink and fan. I noticed that the HDDs are pretty hot, 44 for the older one (root...

Surprise of surprises. My main hd is giving me the black screen routine. It wants me to slip in a disk to boot up. What I disk? I tried my install CD, but I don't think that's the story. In any case,I took out the hd and put it into another machine. It was not detected. However, I'm not...

I have an unusual setup from PC Power that I purchased a number of years ago; it is about 18" square and 1 1/2" thick, allowing it to be vertically mounted in the footwell of a desk. I would like to add a second hdd; as it will be side-by-side with the primary drive, and close to the mb...

Looking for a freeware utility that will give me S.M.A.R.T. information on an external USB hard drive. I did find HD Tune http:// www.hdtune.com but that works on internal drives only. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi csiphs, I read a post somewhere else. The poster asked: "I have a dozen HDDs that I keep in mobile racks and switch as needed. I only need them one at a time, not all together, and I don't want to move them physically or manually reconnect them. Is there any kind of external container where I...

As part of my work on copying files from a laptop, i tangentially came across the topic of dynamic vs basic disks. I am looking for some validation/verification of the following: From my reading, it seems that basic disks are more "portable" (i.e. recognized by more OSs and usable in more...

I'm looking at these disk enclosures and trying to decide which to get. I like big fans but I've heard complaints that the ICY fan (80MM) is loud. OTOH, I dislike tiny fans and would want to hook up fan-failure or over-temp alarms if I get the KINGWIN. KINGWIN KF-3000-BK 3.5" Internal hot swap...

Earlier this year I formatted and rewrote win xp but for some reason the main and only internal drive was assigned as C: (F:) which some software on cd would not recognize and I never could find a good way resolve it. I recently did a fdisk on the mbr and ended up having to a xp repair which...

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on a dell server what does 2x4 backplane mean? thanks.

I have a laptop that has 2 hard drives in it (have taken out dvd burner to allow 2nd hard drive in that spot) Now i can get Hirens BootCD 9.5 to been seen and booted fine using external burner but when you ask it to go into ghost or driveimage it keeps coming up with tons of options and at the...

Hi, Is it possible to recover data from an HDD without having access to a readable partition table, FAT and directory table? Well, the reason I ask this is not because all of these are damaged on my HDD but there is a software that encrypts all of these and I would like to know whether this...

My son's Dell Studio 17 won't boot after a recent vista upgrade. the suggestion is to use the recovery dvd, which will wipe out his data files (no, he did not back them up..different topic). It appears to be a s/w issue not a hardware defect issue. I see from Dells' website that the studios use...