Let's ask comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage newsgroup as well. I'd assume exFAT can do it, but not sure if non-computer devices can. I know all can do FAT32. Jamie Kahn Genet wrote: exFAT to hold 4GB+ files and for faster read/writes (so I'm told - right?)? ...

I want to backup the system partition on a box before I update them and install new anti-virus, updates, etc. Disk management says that disk 0 is the d: drive (data), and disk 1 is the c: drive (system). One partition per disk. Not the usual arrangement, but it is OK. But Norton Ghost 2003 from...

Hello. I noticed both updated 64bit Windows 7 HPE SP1 & 10 EE won't let me reformat my new 64 GB flash drives as FAT32 (default originally). Their Explorers only gave me NTFS & exFAT. Why no old FAT32? Not everything know exFAT & NTFS. :( Thank you in adance. :) -- Quote of the Week: "Any...

A friend of mine had an WD My Book external case, which contained a 500GB WDC WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 hard drive inside it. At some point along the way the My Book's interface failed, it's warranty was expired, and so we took its hard drive out and installed it directly inside his PC case. This was back...

I would greatly appreciate any assistance on this problem. WD 3 gig drive, messed up by incompetent shop. Now installed on new system as CSL/CS (cable select) as secondary drive. Most files appear in explorer and are accessible, except that many give "cannot access drive" errors. Using GDB,...

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...

With all you have done to the 80 gig drive, data recovery is now a "moot point". You have already destroyed much of what you want to recover by using the drive and performing a recovery on the drive. When you lose data -STOP. Assess your options. The time for data recovery software is "prior" to...

Noob wrote: Something trashed my MBR. Now when I boot the PC, I get the dreaded "NON-SYSTEM DISK. PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" (or something close). By MBR, I meant the first sector of my hard disk drive, i.e. the boot-strapping code, and the table of primary partitions.

I noticed my five(?) years old office PC's HDD is getting slower and slower these days. I wonder if it is dying. I don't see anything in SMART colors to show any issues. The technical values confuse me: smartctl -a sda smartctl version 5.38 Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is...

Hello. I know some people prefer to use portable external HDDs, with their power AC connection enclosures or adapters, for reliability and stability. Some people prefer those tiny HDDs with only their USB connections for both power and accessing data (easiest and lightest). Are there any...

I had previously bought two 1TB external hard drives a few years ago from a company which, it appears, has since gone out of business called Eagle Tech. Within a year one of the two hard drives died on me. I only used the hard drives to back up data. I am interested in buying another hard drive...

I don't save videos or anything really big (I only hae 100Gig of files now) so when I ended up with a 1.5T harddrive for a backup drive, I thought I'd put both internal HD's on the same external backup. Plenty of space. I also put my laptop and the laptop of a friend's, (that I was fiddling with...

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In replacing a duff Lacie 250Gb external USB 2.0 hard drive (after just four months of use, and it turns out it was a Maxtor anyway which I've since heard are crap), I took delivery on Thursday of a Seagate 400Gb external USB 2.0 hard drive, but after copying a number of files across, despite it...

Not my words but wanted your input on the below: especially Rod Speed. "And then there are people who do more than write for magazines, have decades of real-world experience, who work with small systems to systems with hundreds of terra-bytes.... My experience with Windows NTFS and file...

I was poking around to see why my old Linux/Debian box was rarely and randomly crashing with kernel panics. I read that its errors can be found in /var/log/syslog (dmesg didn't show me anything related to Kernel panics that I could find): # cat /var/log/syslog .... Mar 4 23:12:07 foobar...

I have had a hard drive crash and didnt realise that the reason the system wouldnt (initially) do backups and then get into windows was that the HDD was crashing (I thought it was something to do with having installed Easy CD Creator onto a Windows 2000 machine) See postings elsewhere...

I noticed that the cables sold now has USB2 on it. I have old ones (and new ones) and they work fine. I wonder is a difference in transfer speed between old and new cables. If so, is there a way to identify the whether a cable is USB1 or USB2? Thanks,

I have an older PC (2.26 ghz 1gb ram)...here is what happened. I bought a new Seagate 400gb HD...unplugged my 120 and 80 GB Maxtors, plugged in the seagate, installed windows Vista (from msdn), was trying to get my Radeon card to work with windows aero. Shut down pulled out all the pci cards to...

Hello! Is it me or do some old DVD-ROM drives have serious problems reading burned discs (CD-R, CD-RWs, DVD-Rs, DVD+Rs, DVD+RWs, DVD-RWs )? It can be unable to read the whole disc (e.g., Explorer says to insert disc) or partially discs (e.g., can't copy specific files). I have seen this at work...