I found this old post with a SMART report full of strange raw values: http://ask.metafilter.com/27093/What-are-my-chances-of-getting-burned-on-a-used-hard-drive-on-eBay Does anyone recognise the model or brand of the drive? Just curious .... BTW attributes 200, 202, 204, and 205 differ in name...

Hi Guys, I am thinking about backing up our 7 PC workgroup. We dont have a server or a domain controller, but we do have a spare PC which can host the backup device. I think at this stage it would be sufficent to backup everthing under Documents N Settings on each XP PC. I was looking at using...

Hi, So I currently have an HP Pavilion dv6000 and just recently have been hearing some clicking. I think i can attribute some of it to overheating which might be with my wife keeping it on 24/7 as well as having it on her lap, etc. I am seeing if there is a way to fix the issue. I ran a...

I've been skating by for a while now backing up only important data, since my backup device options (DVD and DDS-3/4 tape) are paltry compared to the size of my data (on the order of 2TB). The options I've been considering are a LTO 3 drive, which would run about $2K with the requisite number of...

Does a defragger, such as PerfectDisk, perform the equivalent of a CHKDSK before defragging? If not, then should I be running CHKDSK before every defrag?

For the second time in a row, my system is acting up, locking up, or just freezing briefly, sometimes even file corruption. Each time, the problems seem to start a few days after I install a second SATA hard drive on the system. It seems to be fine, so long as there is only one SATA drive...

I have an 8 GB drive in an old PC which is starting to fail. It's Win98 and FAT32. I want to backup all the data on that HDD vecause it is important to me. This includes any data in clusters marked "unused". QUESTION: What is the best way to do the backup? Can I just do a partition copy to...

Is this story (from 2005) on the Dan's Data web site correct? It says ext drives will burn out faster because they don't spin down. http://www.dansdata.com/gz055.htm All things being equal, I would have guessed start/stop wears out drives more than the continuous running Dan is worried...

My motherboard A8N offers 2 S-ATA slots and some more IDE slots. Assume a first hard disc (with my OS) is already running and the (Asus A8N) motherboard powered on: Can I hot plug (in or out) a second S-ATA hard disc without the risk of damages for the motherboard or the S-ATA hard disc? J.

Assume I mount another USB IDE-hard disc to my current system. How should I jumper this hard disc? Say thes external USB hard disc is NOT an IDE hard disc but an S-ATA hard disc. Is it important for them as well on how to jumper it: To master or slave or cable select? Or are terms of "master" and...

Hello I have a computer which has an Adaptec SCSI storage controller ASC-29320 U320. I now need to install an Adaptec 1420SA (because the SATA controller built-in in the motherboard (Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114) doesn't work with drives larger than 500 GB). The problem is that when I install the...

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I have a net drive letter that conflicts with some removable drives, and changing the net drive is problematic. Could there be a way to automate the reassignment of a local drive letter? -- Reply in group, but if emailing add one more zero, and remove the last word.

I have a PC runing Windows 98 with the master drive partitioned into c,d,e and the slave into c,d with no data on it. But the slave's c partition is labelled d, and so hides the master's d partition. Does anyone know a way around this?

I have just purchased a Canon digitalcamera. I have an 8GB HP SD High Capacity memory card that I have used but with some problems. Like the 32MB card that came with the camera, the 8 GB memory card is formatted in RAW. When I remove the 8 GB SDHC card from the camera and put it into my 3...

Hi to all. Maybe this is a Windows Vista problem, but when I try to install the WD FAT32 formatting utility, I get an error saying "There is a problem with this Windows installer package. A program required for this installer to complete could not be run" The program is ExtFat32.msi. I tell...

Need help on selecting external storage unit with 4 drives for server? I need a reasonably priced NAS or server attached type storage device that has removable drives. We have one Windows 2003 server. I would like to be able to take drives home (at times) for safekeeping in case of on site...

Hi Folks: I recently purchased a Maxtor 1 GB Onetouch with a USB and Firewire interface. The price was right, $100.00. The salesman suggested ESATA, for a lot more money, but I'd never heard of that standard and decided to go cheap. I've since read a bit about ESATA, the interface is 3...

Hi to all. My 500G Western Digital Mybook will not format. I tried using the WD ExtFat32 program and that didn't work (won't install on my Vista system; installed on my wife's XP laptop, and the drive wouldn't install there either). Tried the formatting in Drive Management, using NTFS, and that...

Six months ago, I unplugged one of my computers. Now, after I plug it in and push the button, nothing happens. I'm thinking of moving the HD (with XP Pro on it) to another computer. What should I expect? I heard that Microsoft has some kind of anti-piracy scheme that would prevent Windows from...