Hi Guys I have recently been given eight 250GB SATA MaxLine Plus II hard drives. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any storage server configurations for use as a file/storage server on my LAN? Possibly RAID etc? Many thanks Phil

I tried to rezise a partitioned 20G hd with partition magic 6. Right on the final steps of the loooong procedure, PM6 raised a message #50, i guess, and crashed. The drive is no longer recognized by windows and many recovery tools i´ve tried reports a sector 0 read failure. Fdisk can see it but...

The spell checker suggests.......could it be.......SATAN? Is this a sign of some kind? Maybe we should rethink the whole SATA thing. --Dan

Hi, I am using a WD80GB SATA HDD on an AMD64 3000+ system running WinXP Pro on an MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R motherboard, with 512MB of DDR400 RAM. The HDD is connected to a SATA connector belonging to the VIA chipset, and not to the additional Promise SATA/RAID chipset that is also available on the MB. I...

I am troubleshooting an ibm netvista pc 300pl, using onboard sound, the sound is enable in all locations that i can think of to check, however the system still has no available audio, cannot run win media player, nor can the system sounds be tested. When i open up control panel and...

I has a Fujitsu 6Gb HDsix years, never had a problem with it, no bad sectors or anything. Had my Western 80Gb 7 months and it's developing bad sectors. Am I just unlucky to get a bad HD? Was made in Malaysia. Western is sending me a replacement.

If the data is important then I would recommend sending it to a good data recovery company. I work for Data Recovery Services but any of the top companies should be able to handle this one. You can check us out at www.datarecovery.net or email me personally if you have any questions. I tried to...

My removeable zip drive is normally J:. Every so often out-of-the-blue it becomes D: in "My Computer" and that then causes problems because all the other drives move up a letter, Data that should go to a partition goes into the partition physically nearer C: Yet, Partition Magic continues to show...

"John Smith" wrote in message ... This web site at http://www.ata-atapi.com/ says that SATA is currently unreliable. Is SATA really this unreliable? Yes, this is why it is so important to use SCSI when you are building a system that is...

I just built a Win98SE system using some new but mostly old parts. The Maxtor 20GB drive is one of the old parts, and this is a drive that I had previously partitioned into 15 and 5 GB. I installed Win98SE on logical drive C of course, the 15GB partition, after deleting everything, but I did not...

Happened upon this while looking up something else in the vendor's catalog. http://www.pennstateind.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PKCDTOP&Category_Code= -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

I have now tried twice to create a bootable slipstreamed Win 2000 + SP4 CD. Both times the CD appeared fine but was not bootable. My PC tries to boot from the CD but complains that "NTLDR" is not found, whatever that means. The references I used a http://www.duspinnst.com/bootcd.htm (my 1st...

I've got a second WD250 on a promise controller card on one win2k NTFS machine. I'm building a new computer and want to move this drive over. I'm booting off another drive and have loaded the same win2k os. The IDE controller is now a VIA chipset (although I have questions as to whether it is...

A friend's computer had a hardware crash; she can't get it to past the POST, so she bought another computer. Assuming the old hard drive is still good, what's the recommended way to get the data off of it? I assume one should stick it into another computer with one hard drive, but I don't know...

Hi, I'm having slight problems while migrating from my old drive to my new RAID0 array. I have simply copied all of the files to the new drive, including some programs. While the drive letters remain the same from the program's point of view, I still had to fix a lot of broken registry. Now that...

Good Evening/Morning, I just bought a Dell laptop that has only a 30GB HD. Is there any way to connect my desktop 80GB HD to my laptop? I know that is an adapter to hook up a laptop HD to a desktop computer...but is there a way to do it the other way around? I look forward to your...

I need some help on how I can check/set the block mode (fixed or variable) on an IBM 3582 LTO2 fibre channel tape library. The unit is posting errors mentioning that the drive is set to fixed mode whilst doing snap backups directly from a NetApp filer. I have more error info if needed. Any help...

Does anyone know if it is possible to put an IDE hard drive into an SATA removable drive rack using one of those IDE to SATA converter plugs? Is there enough room in the rack to do this? Can it still work as a removable drive? Are there any technical issues with trying to do this? Would this be...

I have an old Pentium 133Mhz, whose hard disk has died. I want to put a new drive in there, but before I buy one, would like to know if there is any size limit, or otherwise, in putting a new drive into an old computer.

Can anyone help? My computer wouldn't boot up one day and I had to reformat, load everything again and it was fine. I did a scan for viruses and found nothing. Then a couple of weeks later it has done the same thing again. What's going on? It was running Win ME. Ade