When creating a disk image, typically of a disk on it's last legs, I get lots of failed sectors. Occasionally, and especially on SATA drives the whole USB - drive interface locks up. The only solution is a power off reset. I would love to find a software solution around this problem. Although,...

I am a newbie when it comes to RAID's, so maybe this is a silly question but - I have a system that I use everyday - it has 1 master (SATA 320 gig SEAGATE) AND I have a couple of 40 gig IDE's drive lying around (not connected to the computer presently) with the same capacity and make. My...

Hello, I have to restore a .tib image done with Acronis True Image 6 under Windows 98. It's an image coming from an old dead PC : so, impossible to redo any other kind of image. However, this image contains somes important piece of data and application for me. So, what should I use to restore...

Hello, I have a HP Pavilion DV6000 notebook. And several days ago I encountered an error seems occurred on the hard drive. I cannot boot up my Linux system and just I/O error at the black screen. Then I check the Hard drive test at BIOS, the test status returned "#1-07 Failed". I googled this...

This drive isn't new, but something happened (long story but it involved connecting two USB printers with card readers), and it doesn't seem to want to format, although it's recognized in Windows. I couldn't get the WD External Fat 32 Format utility to install on my Vista computer, but I used my...

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I have an Intel DG965RY motherboard & chipset and am having major problems trying to install Vista (32 bit) with AHCI for my SATA-II drive. I can install Vista and the drive fine using the BIOS SATA IDE Setting (though the UDMA does not seem to be what I expected) but whenever I change the BIOS...

Anyone have any good links on How-To for hard drive repair? I've taken head stacks out and replaced them, even swapped some platters. But looking to go a little further. I've got a flooded hard drive and was wondering how the pro's do their repair on a hard drive dropped in water or some other...

Hi everybody, I really would appreciate it if anybody can give me a hint about that. I bought a Maxtor Basics (1TB) USB drive, and it runs well so far. BUT after a few minutes the external drive ALWAYS go into sleep mode (it flashs slowly with the drive LED), and if I am accessing the drive, it...

Previously wrote: This drive isn't new, but something happened (long story but it involved connecting two USB printers with card readers), and it doesn't seem to want to format, although it's recognized in Windows. I couldn't get the WD External Fat 32 Format utility to...

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I want to replace my current PATA HD with a larger SATA HD. My PC has an empty drive bay, and I know how to install a new drive. What's not clear is how to copy everything from my old drive to the new one and make the new drive my bootable C: drive. So I have a few questions: 1) I assume there...

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Win XP Pro SP3+ Recently, after I defrag my disks, chkdsk sets itself to run, sometimes with just three stages (verifying files, indexes, and security descriptors) but not infrequently it runs 5 stages, adding verification of file data and free space. That 5 stage whole process takes about 2...

Hi.. I recently migrated form an old (1999) 610 workstation running Win2k Pro to a 670 workstation running Xp Pro, however having problems with a WD MyBook on the 1394 Firewire port. 1394 worked the best on my old box (better than USB) but it's having trouble now on this box. Here are Event Viewer...

A few months ago, I tested over 2-3 dozen cheaper backup software programs found online, most in the free to $40 range. Most had bugs and the rest other problems. Worse, most worked exclusively with time- triggered backups. Very few were capable of reliable real time backups!! Here's the list of...

Hi: I have a WD Passport Elite 500 GB external Drive which I use for my laptop, which uses Win XP. Howevr, my desktop uses Win 98. There aren't drivers for win 98 on the WD site specific to this drive. Won't work on my desktop. My desktop has USB 1.1 inputs. If I get a USB 2.0 controller card,...

Hi! Since I still have Toshiba DVD-ROM drive and it works in Windows XP, shouldn't it work in DOS boot with its old oakcdrom.sys driver? Or did my new MSI motherboard change the rules for using IDE CD/DVD-ROM drives? CMOS sees the drive just fine under primary master (the only IDE drive too)...

Seagate is lowering their warranty on many drives as of tomorrow. If you value the 5 year warranty, get your order in. -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close.........(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't...

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