It's happened about 3 times now and always gives me a fright. I'm surfing and maybe I come across a webpage that causes my PC to lock. Only option is to pull the plug from the mains. Normally Scandisk will start and the PC will boot up, but occasionally I will get boot failure. I put in A: the...

My system is running Windows 98 SE. After the PM7 window opens, I get the error (for disk #1): Error 116 - Partition table Begin and Start inconsistent I'd like to backup partitions on disk #1 but PM7 won't allow it so long as it thinks there are errors. Despite the error from PM7, my system...

Noticed samsung is bringing back 5400 drives. Four 160G drives would look nice on a promise SX card.

Hi I thought the max you could use on ATA133 was 18", but have seen several 24" ones around - are these OK to use? TIA

Hi. I have run into what appears to be a fairly serious problem here and am hoping someone can help me. I was clean installing win98se on a computer and was using a secondary data drive D as a temp second drive to access drivers, some utilities and as a place to make drive images for backup of...

With a teenager and wife who are collecting large files fron DVD's and ReplayTV programs eating up hard drive space, I thought that I would purchase a large hard drive for storage and use it for backup, as well. I am looking for a quiet, sturdy drive. I have a priority for longevity, as it will...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I had a previous hard disk that had 4k worth of bad sectors. When I got my nice shiny new IBM replacement I cloned the entire thing across and resized the partition, but of course, it took with it the MFT and the "record" of the bad sectors. How...

Hi Everyone, I would be very grateful if you could assist me on this matter. As already stated I have a Seagate ST3160023AS 160gb SATA Hard drive connected to my Gigabyte GA-7VT600PL motherboard (which uses the VIA VT8237 SATA chipset). I have downloaded your disctools, burnt them to CD and ran...

If you can't tolerate the noise, you'll have to return it. There's no AAM option. But it's nothing to feel bad about, you paid good money and you deserve to be satisfied with your purchase. "JL" wrote in message ... Hi there, I...

I *WAS* having what seemed to be problems with my burner, but they're fixed. I think it was a case of crap burning software; I switched to Nero and now everything's hunky dory as far as the burner goes. However, I *still* can't read from the hard drive on the same channel. The error message I now...

This is likely a dumb question to all you hardware exprerts... I want to put RAID 0 on my 3 year old Althelon, Windows 2000 box. I want a really fast hard drive access times. I know that there is ATA, Ultra ATA, Serial ATA etc. 1) do I really need an internal drives for fast speed? Or is there...

Hi all, I bought IDE to USB enclosres (OSN) for spare 2.5' laptop hard drives (Toshiba MK3021GAS, 30GB). It is a self-powered (with two USB connectors to computer and miniUDB to the enclosure), made by Tellhow Technology. When I plug it into USB ports, the LCD enclosure lit up and computer shows a...

I apologize if this has been discussed before, but I was not able to find anything useful so far. I'm experiencing a very slow transfer rate between two HDs on the same IDE. The funny thing is that it used to be very fast and then at one point something must have happened and it just slowed down....

A while ago one of my three hard drives stopped being readable in Windows XP. Usually when I click on it in Explorer I get a message saying it's not formatted. However, I tried the same drive in a different computer for a day and it works fine - everything on it was there and readable. So to me,...

I would like to know if I should blame myself or Western Digital. I lost a lot of good stuff and would like to know it this is my own doing I've had a 60 gig Western Digital hard drive for a few years. WD600, 5400RPM. It ran cool so I liked it. Most of the time it was used for storage and was not...

I've got a 160GB WD using a Promise 100 ATA controller, as a storage drive. I'm using Windows XP home, I would like to format the 160GB with 2 FAT32 partitions. But Win XP will only seem to allow NTFS. My Win 98SE boot disk can not see the whole drive. I've heard partition magic can do the job. Any...

I am thinking of using Ghost to create a backup image of a Win XP Home SP1 installation and have a lot of basic questions about Ghost, specifically the version that is included in Norton Systemworks Pro 2004. I haven't had much luck getting clear info from Symantec, so I am hoping that someone in...

background: Windows ME user I recently had my PC files stored on a DVD-R and my drive's been acting funny lately. Usually I've had no problem retrieving whatever I wanted from the DVD disc. But I've noticed sometimes that when I look up a file on the disc, it's not listed - like it was erased. ...

I have a Mac's IDE HD that crashed, went through data recovery, and most data was already squeezed out of it. Since it's not at all given that the HD itself was to blame, I have the option to reformat it and do an extended burn-in test for possible re-use. However, I'd like to take a...

"Arno Wagner" wrote in message ... Previously CWatters wrote: "toylet" wrote in message ... I was sleepy and plugged the IDE...