Just played around with a utility called Speedfan which apparently can read the SMART temperature sensor on newer hard drives. Of my three drives, a Maxtor 60, a WD200, and a WD250, only the WD250 appears to have the sensor. It's reading 30 C with a motherboard case temp of 25C. Does this sound...

I had a 6gb drive with 2 partitions - with data I use everyday without backup :(- and my system had problems, crashes, etc, so I decided reinstall it. I deleted c:\, c:\windows. After that, I ran Install.exe from the W98se Cd, and then.... Pooom! All files seem to be "mixed", the partitions aren't...

Are hard drives hermetically sealed? Reason I ask is I use an air purifier that puts out neg. ions and ozone. And ozone will corrode computer parts, make them brittle. Especially a rubber drive belt in a CD or DVD player. I think most components are impervious enough and computer will be...

I've had a Maxtor One Touch 160G drive for about 2 weeks now. Just one concern though. Often when it starts up it will clang/bang quite loudly for 3 to 20 times, at a rate of about 2 times a second. It makes quite a racket. Then it settles down never to do it again for that session. It only does it...

Hi, I just got one of these cards, and I got it working in my system, but have a couple of questions. Hopefully someone else here has used this... 1) When you boot with the card installed, an additional prompt (press F1 or F11) appears. What does pressing the F1 or F11 do? It kind of looks...

My understanding is that double-layer writable DVDs will be about 8.4 (decimal) gigs. Is that correct? Does anyone know when they will be available? What is the expected capacity of blue laser writable DVDs and when are they expected to be in the stores? What is the expected capacity of blue...

Gees I was struggling between a new external SATA, then the highly touted Maxtor One-touch (USB2.0 vs USB/FireWire -this being no Apple BTW!). Then those saying do it to that new DVD burner you got, Hoss! Sheesh! I bet some smart fella has wrote a nice review of the various choices open to SOHO...

Hi all, i have a problem with setting up a single disk on an on board raid controller... i am using an epox 8k5A2 with onboard HPT372 controller 40gig samsung on primary IDE 1 80 gig maxtor on channel one of the raid controller... my objective is to use the raid controller to add the maxtor as...

Any comments on this drive, specifically the internal ATA retail kit? I'd be using it to archive videos, music, and system disk image backups, so I'm not too worried about the speed. I've got 3 Maxtors (54098U8, 4G160J8, 6Y160P0) and no probs with any of them. The 5400rpm G160J8 has been fast...

My WIN98SE with a Promise ULTRA66 plug-in controller has a 20GN MAXTOR as a non-bootable on PRIMARY. The 20GB drive is in a removable tray which I can turn power on or off. The UKTRA66 controller and drive seems to be working. My problem. ----------- When I turn off power to the 20GB drive in the...

Back at school, I couldn't get my old win95 computer to reformat, so I let my "knowledgeable" roommate try to fix it. Boy am I stupid. He went into fdisk and deleted my partition, so now it recognizes nothing. Just shows A:/. When booting up, it requires the recovery cd in place, shows the usual...

Hello all, I have brought a RAID controller to merge many old drives into a big one, only to learn that the controller is crap enough to crash while autodetecting those aincient CHS Mode 0 drives... So here I have a RAID 0,1,0+1,JBOD controller and a disk space crisis on another computer (where...

unless you don't really need the data that you are backing up. This drive has caused me headache after headache. I just built a new system and used this drive to back up some files that I really needed to keep. I built my new machine and was able to get files off of the OneTouch no problem. I...

Other than being broke, is there any valid reason for the CD tray to not extend when the open button is pressed? I haven't used the drive for some time, so I don't know when the behavior started. but it won't open when in BIOS or after W2K is running. W2K explorer asks for a disk to be mounted -...

Fred Flintstone wrote: After I used Partition Magic to resize a 10 GB NTFS partition containing Windows 2000, just enough to create a 100 MB FAT partition before the NTFS partition, I could no longer boot from the NTFS partition. Partition Magic stated that the partition is a Type 17 ...

I posted in part in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on March 31, 2004: It is accurate enough so that I can see when the number of sectors per track changes (by looking at the local peaks), but the range in speed is more than 20%. I am not sure if this is reflecting the actual...

OK, I know this is a subjective question but has anybody got any suggestions on the most stylish and smallest USB2 pen drives available. I am looking for something cheesy; all silvery with a superfluous blue LED and small enough to fit the tightest of multi-stacked usb ports.

Hi, Hi, I need more storage for my laptop, so bought a 250GB Western Digital HD, fitted into the combined USB2/Firewire external enclosure shown...

Is this no longer available? Thanks Derek

Hello All, just picked up a SimpleTech 160 GB 7200rpm USB 2.0 External. I'm getting about 11MB transfer rate. I DO have a 2.0 card. What is the deal with USB transfer rates? I didn't expect to see 480MB, but I did expect to see something faster than this. I have a pretty speedy AMD 3000+...