Hi all, Here is my "home-made" system: Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 (rev 1.1) CPU: Intel Quad Core Q6600 Disks: 2 Western Digital Caviar Green SATA2 (1TB, 1.5TB) + 1 brand new Seagate Barracuda Green SATA3 (2TB) for W7 Memory: 4x2GB of brand new GSkill DDR2-1066 memory (in...

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110307D07JF795.htm "Hitachi Ltd. will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business to U.S. company Western Digital Corp. for around $4 billion, the Nikkei reported Monday." - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

I know, that old chestnut :-) We're currently running a five year old Dell PowerEdge 4400 server with 5 x 70GB Hitachi Ultra 160 SCSI drives in RAID-5 giving us ~280GB disk space. This server hosts our file share, SQL 7 and Exchange 5.5 services. But the time has come to plan for the future and...

From what I've read, it seems easier to use BootMagic than the bootloader that comes with Windows. But I might be wrong. I don't know this subject. This is where I'm at now: As you can see by this screenshot of Computer Management: http://home.kc.rr.com/plumb/comman.gif I'm running on WinXP...

I have a motherboard with a hardware RAID controller built in and I intend to set up two identical drives in RAID 1 configuration. My worry is how I would go about recovering the data from either drive if my motherboard goes down. I assume that you can't just plug one of the drives in to another...

What technical differences are between SATA and ATA?

Came across this article the other day, it's a description of Microsoft's latest FAT file system driver, meant mainly for use with the newest generation of bigger thumb drives. It's called exFAT (extended), and it's the successor to FAT32. Description of the exFAT file system driver update...

What is it with Maxtor internal IDE hard drives? This week is the second time I had trouble with a Maxtor Diamond hard drive. Here's the story: When I attempted to access the folder in which the file I needed was stored, Windows 2000 threw an "Error performing inpage operation on hard disk" error...

Ok, so I have decided I NEED to get a new PC. My Promise controller is not compatible with my ECS PVM4MM2 V5.0 MB (if someone knows a card that is, that would be good). I am leaning toward an Intel Based chipset either Asus, Abit or ? with several PCI slots. Right now, I am looking for a MB...

I have gotten 5 drives and 4 of them failed within an hour. Yes, the warranty replacements gotten directly from Seagate failed just like the orginal 2 new ones purchased from an online retailer. One of the original warranty replacements is still working, though I'm not really using it yet other...

I have a home LAN with about 20 GB online. As I get more into digital photography and possibly even videos, I expect that amount of storage can grow quite a lot in the next few years. My current tape drive is 7/14 GB, and a full backup each month requires about 4-5 media changes, counting the...

Does anyone know of freeware which can diagnose & recognize an already crashed hard disk on an IBM laptop? My kid's IBM laptop hard disk "stopped working" (it had been making noise, he said). - The IBM laptop would not boot no matter what I tried - I put the laptop hard disk in a different working...

Following a major crash, my wife recently had a second 40GB HD installed. Unfortunately, the installer took the simplest option of making the whole new drive a single partition, instead of two of 8GB and 32GB, as on the other drive. The organisation is therefore now as follows: HD1 --- C 40GB:Win...

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...

Hello all. I just got this e-mails and checked the logs this morning on my Linux/Debian machine: Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 07:25:40 -0700 From: root root@MyLinuxBox To: root@MyLinuxBox Subject: SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host: MyLinuxBox

Is there anywhere to get an mbr for a 40G hard drive using win98? (besides getting another one and setting it up).

Hello! I recently bought a new 500 GB SATA Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS before Christmas 2008 and started using it on the 27th (work time: 17 days). I am worried if I need to upgrade its firmware or return the drive after reading about high failure rates online. However, those were 1...

I have a friend with a 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA (in a Win XP Pro machine) that's throwing weird partition issues at the drop of a hat. Last week, after the PC crashed in a game, the entire drive (3 primary NTFS partitions) became inaccessible. Partition Magic 8 showed it as one errored...

I've got 4 80GB Drives that I'd like to redeploy in my house, but my existing computers don't have any free IDE connexions, PCI slots, or drive bays. I also don't want to create another complete PC in my house. I've seen some IDE-raid enclosures, but they are all prohibitively expensive. I've...

I have a drive with bad sectors in the FAT area, so I thought of Spinrite since it works at the low level, but they tell me that their program can't fix it. I couldn't expect them to explain why, so I'll ask here. I had thought that Spinrite relocates sectors at the low level, and as far as the...