I have a Western Digital 13gb hard drive with important tax and financial information on it. Unfortunately, I got a virus on this drive, and when the virus was removed, the drive stopped working. Its recognized on boot and in bios, but when the machine boots, it wont begin. I tried slaving...

I've got an 80GB ATA hard drive with four FAT32 partitions. I want to merge the 4 into 2 partitions. Its not my main boot drive (on my win XP system). So what is a good program for doing it ?

Hi All, I am replacing two Maxtor D740X drives with new WD 1200JB drives. Both setups are Raid-0. I'm just wondering what kind of performance increase/decrease to expect. The specs are listed below, but to put it simply, the Maxtors were 80GB 7200rpm, ATA 133, 2mb drives. The new WDs...

"Dogg" wrote in message ... Hey... I've just finished to set up an new RAID0 (stripping) computer... 2*160Gigs... Is it useful to defrag a partition that is created on such a configuration?

Does anyone know how to change firmware in Seagate ST340017A? Because I have it locked on 10 GB when actually there is 40 GB. If anyone knows how to do this or/and know where can I get original firmware to that disk from, please let me now. It's emergency :( I tried everything and looked for help...

I've been trying to use Partition Magic 8 to move a partition on a hard drive. It tells me it has to shut down to do this, and eveything else looks ok but when I restart the partition is the same as before. I've tried this several times. Using on Win 2000 Pro, 9 gig SCSI with 2 partitions (C: @...

To all you storage freaks out there. I just downloaded the 15 day trial version of True Image and this program seems great. I highly recommend it, you can make an image of a live XP drive, which is amazing. Almost as amazing as the Intel utility that lets you go from a single disk to a...

Greetings! Ladies and gentlemen, I dearly need your help.. I have just discovered that I was a victim of a Norton Ghost 2003 design flaw. I have two drives that I backed up into disk images. The disk images were called Laptopdrive1 (my main drive in the laptop) and laptop2 (second drive, the...

hi, i am about to buy a external usb drive with 2 options: 120 gb 8mb western digital 120gb 2mb ibm which one is better in terms of performance and reliablity. thanks in advance sagar --

Hi, Could someone can explain me a way how to make a EIDE disk (by hardware) read only wihtout buying expensive hardware like EIDE device blocking. I already try grounding signal pin 23 (IOWR) of the IDE ribbon.. but this doosn't work. Many thanks John

Is it still working OK? If not, how did it fail? thanks, nf

Can anyone comment on the longevity of these drives? A bought a couple (340810A, 40GB) a few years ago and only used one, as a backup/scratch drive that doesn't get used much. I'm planning to use the unused one to replace a Fujitsu MPB3064A (6.5GB) that's seen over 3 years of 24/7 use in a...

I'm planning to add a new 120gb drive to my system, but I'm not sure if I should take a 2Mb or 8Mb cache version. What bothers me is the following thought: If current hard drives cache writing operations, isn't the risk of data loss (by power failure etc.) higher with 8mb of cache? I'm thinking...

Has anyone used the new Castlewood 5.7Gb ORB removable drive? Their old removable drive was problematic. As I recall, the older removable drive had a cheap feel to it. The new cartridges seem to be costly (compared to Iomega's). It doesn't seem like very many vendors are carrying the new drive....

Interesting reading for the hdd professionals in this group. http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/07/HNmsdiskredesign_1.html "Flash memory has a limited lifespan of around 100,000 read/write cycles. Heavy users would exhaust that in a couple of years but light users' notebooks would have up to...

I have an ECS P6VEM mainboard (socket 370, Via VT133 chipset) with a 60 GB Maxtor DM+9 as primary master, and an 80 GB DM+9 as primary slave. The 80 GB drive was showing very poor write performance, so I downloaded the IBM/Hitachi feature tool, which revealed that the drive's write cache was...

I recently bought a new WD1200LB (120 GB, 7200 rpm, PATA) to replace one of the two WD800BB's (80 GB, 7200 rpm) in my PC. After I exchanged the drives, the system would not complete the power up process. Everything begins normally, but after about two seconds it shuts down with a two-tone warning...

Hello, I recently obtained an older computer with a 1.3GB hard drive. I put in another 8GB hard drive - however when the computer boots up it freezes when it detects the 8GB hard drive. I've tried many combinations with just the 8GB in, 1.3.GB as master, 8GB as master, all with the same results....

woof wrote: Is there a way to fire this off on the command line with a resource file - no user interaction? True Image 7 has full native support for scheduled backups with no user interaction, FWIW. I am not sure what you could do with just 6...

I'm going to buy a Vosonic hard drive housing with card reader, and have to find an appropriate disk for this purpose. What's the most robust and shock-resistant 2.5" drive available? The drive should manage extensive vibrations (in a speed boat), and should also be capable of writing without much...