Somehow I never get rid of all my problems and questions. How do I know how big my flashdrive is? Today I went to use my NIB flashdrive and it says there is no room to copy AVG11 to it (to install on another computer *before* going on the net.) PowerDesk shows my drive is only 1.07 gig big. I...

I've got a Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI motherboard. It has two RAID controller chips, of which I use one to controller a RAID 1 array of two Seagate ST3160827AS SATA 7200.8 160GB drives. The O/S is Win XP SP2. All was working fine, even after adding my old IDE harddrive from my old PC (continuing with...

I'm looking for a reliable "cloning" program. What I want to do is simply clone (not image) my C: drive to my D: drive, so that in the event of a C: drive failure I could just unplug the data cable from C:, plug it into D:, adjust the BIOS, boot and go with a hard drive that would be identical...

Hi all. I am in a need to get another external portal HDD for mostly backups. It can be a name brand bundled one or enclosure + HDD. However, it has to be from cdw.com since my boss and employer said so (dumb, I know -- I guess it is the contracts or discounts?). Anyways, I need a big HDD that...

I need some advice. I was transferring info from a 160 gig IDE Western Digital hard drive and forgot the drive was in use when I renamed it in Drive properties. The drive instantly lost its file system asks if I want to format it when I click on the drive letter. I've used GetDataBack and...

I had a motherboard with a built in IDE RAID Promise chipset. I used two drives for RAID 0 (now I know this was a bad idea). To make a long story short, the system board is shot and I can't get another with the same RAID chipset. Even if I throw the computer out, I really need to save my data. My...

I've been occasionally getting an error message on my Event Viewer, Event ID 55, source Ntfs, message: "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume Hit 1000 winboot." I'm absolutely certain that these are mostly fake messages,...

I've just bought a couple of these F4 2TB drives (the 4k ones), now given I'm still running XP I had to use there "Acronics Align Tool" so I downloaded it, installed it and ran it and it done what it needed to do and came back saying drive was now fine. Now I took a drive image before I done...

"Yes, Backblaze Just Ordered 100 Petabytes of Hard Drives" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/400-petabytes-cloud-storage/ Now I know why the 8 TB and 10 TB drives are in short supply. Between Backblaze and the NSA, not many are left for us common folks. Lynn

Since Hitachi took over IBM's Hard Drives, are they better or much the same. TIA Jerry

I have been testing the utility above for making a backup of my CMOS settings. I seem to have made a backup to file succesfully: PhoenixTechnologiesLTD-M2.03A.rom But now what can I do with it?? They seem to have forgotten to implement an option for restoring the file? I had a look into the...

Hi! I was just watching my recorded television/TV shows and then my video froze. My old updated Windows XP Pro. SP3's taskbar showed several balloons showing many write delays ($MFT) on my 500 GB Seagate SATA HDD on all of its partitions/drives (D:, G:, etc.)! My Windows started pausing and...

I currently have a desktop with a Zalman 600W PS, it was a pretty nice PS a few years ago when I got it, but now it looks like the system has been upgraded and grown again, and I'm starting to see signs that it's not producing enough power for the components anymore. So I'm looking at the...

I was sitting at my desk yesterday during a storm when there was a split-second power outage. Despite the fact that my battery shows all 5 lights lit, the computer died. Is there a better brand to use than APC? Can the battery be sub-par even though the test lights say it is OK? What have...

Hello, This video on youtube shows the strange procedure I have to follow to boot up my computer lately: https://youtu.be/oglScNl_jjw This strange problem started occuring after I accidently put the computer into sleep mode, and re-powered the system after the power was cut but the fans had not...

Current state of SSD's My niece thinks she needs a new laptop. Hers' is all of 4 years old and she imagines its running slowly. (Or it is but could be fiixed.) She wasts a solid state drive. Last I heard, you could only write to them so many times before they started forgetting what they...

I would like to buy a DVR with an ATSC tuner and a port an for an external eSATA or USB drive. Does anyone make such a device? Multiple tuners would be a big plus. Thank you in advance for all replies. -- When I am in the kitchen, I often kick one of my cat's balls. After I kick it, he will...

I have a perplexing problem here. I went on vacation outside of the country, and when I got back my Windows 7 desktop lost almost all of its user login accounts (5 altogether), except for one. The one that isn't lost, cannot be logged into, as the password doesn't get accepted. The machine also...

Have an ABIT BE6 mb. Presently I have this IDE/ATA configuration - IDE3 master(ATA) - 80GB with 2 partitions of 40GB. First is Win98se and second just for data.(C: & F:) IDE3 slave (ATA) - 12GB just for data. (D:) IDE4 master(ATA) - 120GB just for data (E:) (All FAT32) IDE1 & 2 - Total of 3 cd/dvd...

Simple Version: I need to backup 1GB-80GBs of data twice a week on different clients machines. I intend to use a USB v1.0 - 2.0 enclosure. Can the USB (v1.0 or 2.0) interface take advantage of more *advanced* drive features over the standard 5,400rpm/2MB cache. For example would a...