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Replacing Hard Drive in MAXTOR One Touch External Drive
Posted on June 9th, 2006 | 2 Comments

colinr@sonic.net wrote: No. You should be able to. But my advice would be to ditch the whole shebang and get a decent external housing with active cooling. Not a 40mm fan - 80mm or larger.

USB-hosted readers & 4GB SD cards compatibility
Posted on June 9th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Previously Jacques Hulaux <j.hulaux@remove-any-dash-and-domain-up-to-there-com-puter.org> wrote: Hehe, that would be 480Mb/s, not 480MB/s. And that is the maximum theoretical interface bandwidth of...

"The loaded disc is not empty..." with new DVD+RWs from ISOs in CDBurnerXP Pro.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 | 5 Comments

In alt.comp.periphs.cdr ANTant@zimage.com wrote: OK, I think I fixed the problem. It appears that Windows XP needed a reboot (sheesh). Before that, I tried a HP brand of DVD+RW that came with the...

External SATA RAID Boxes That Connect with eSATA?
Posted on June 9th, 2006 | 31 Comments

Timothy Daniels wrote: Tim, or Tom? As in 'Tarded Tom the Top Poster? (Remember him?) 8)

Can IDE cable's end connector be left idle ( w-o affecting data transfer ) ?
Posted on June 9th, 2006 | 60 Comments

"TE Chea" <4ws@gmail.com> wrote in message news:44891605$1_1@news.tm.net.my Damn, I would have never gathered that from all the comments made in that thread spanning more than a full screen. Oh,...

Formatting on drive wiped out when testing another drive
Posted on June 9th, 2006 | 83 Comments

Howdy! "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote in message news:44880168$0$16233$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net... That, somehow, the other machines all recognize it as E:,...

my 1 year old Seagate HD is making loud noise
Posted on June 8th, 2006 | 4 Comments

l e o <someone@somewhere.net> wrote: Yeah, thats definitely bearing noise. Sometimes it isnt that constant, but definitely no regularity to the pattern. Yeah, can be a complete pain in in the arse.

Divide by Zero error
Posted on June 8th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Previously Raju <dwarakanathr@yahoo.co.in> wrote: This is a broken or old boot loader. Replace with a new one, that should fix the problem. Arno

Seagate 400GB external drive wiped data with power off????
Posted on June 8th, 2006 | 6 Comments

Folkert Rienstra wrote: It's ok, Folkert - I'll get over it. I feed my family and no-one else. Odie -- Retrodata www.retrodata.co.uk Globally Local Data Recovery Experts

Solid 4-port Sata II controller/adapter
Posted on June 8th, 2006 | 12 Comments

"_dee" <nomail@nomail.com> wrote in message news:k7sf82hvlinap6s6rji66trlnmqc0hfctr@4ax.com Sure, but that is just not JBOD. JBOD is an array of spanned drives. Why would it write something to...

Bootable USB keys & USB readers for SD cards
Posted on June 7th, 2006 | 4 Comments

Hello Odie, Thanks for the advice. However, IDE is a no-go for me (except if I add some SATA-to-IDE/PATA converter, which sounds like an overkill). I checked the Synchrotech website: no SATA-hosted...

HD on a CD-ROM channel
Posted on June 6th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Previously Jerry West <jw@comcast.net> wrote: Yes, and why not? Arno

Mouse problems
Posted on June 6th, 2006 | 2 Comments

ClaireT wrote: Hello, Claire: Here's a far more applicable newsgroup, for your question: news:comp.periphs Good luck!

Iomega NAS or any NAS question
Posted on June 6th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Does anyone know of a software or any way configure a NAS with a static IP where you can assign user rights to it? Iomega doesn't really include any software. I need some ideas. I wonder if using a...

Hard disk physical sector size
Posted on June 5th, 2006 | 8 Comments

Previously Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote: Some numbers true today: HDD: 512 bytes, CDROM (data!) 2048 bytes. MOD: 512 bytes or 2048 bytes, depending on the disk, not the drive. Arno

Fujitsu 2.5" 60Gb MHV2060AT clacks/ticks - cant change APM...
Posted on June 5th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, I have a Fujitsu MHV2060AT in my notebook... and it's driving me nuts. It makes clacking noises, I presume it's the drives power management constantly parking and unparking the heads before /...

USB flash drive - can read but can't write
Posted on June 5th, 2006 | 19 Comments

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 20:39:48 -0400, "JANA" <jana@ca.inter.net> put finger to keyboard and composed: AFAIK, a common problem with these is that they develop dry solder joints at the connector pins,...

Can't dismount Seagate STS330063 1a USB external HD
Posted on June 5th, 2006 | 1 Comments

On 27 May 2006 03:51:27 -0700, dan04@comcast.net wrote: something is indeed using the disk. Use Filemon http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html or a similar tool to see what's using it.

Hard Drive Failure
Posted on June 5th, 2006 | 7 Comments

Use data recovery tool search and recover the files. I recommend EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard. See more: http://www.easeus.com

Does P5LD2 Deluxe support this HDD Configuration?
Posted on June 4th, 2006 | 4 Comments

For anyone who may be considering doing what I was asking about: it can be done. 1. Install boot drive to SATA1 connector. 2. In BIOS, set IDE Configuration to RAID. 3. Save changes and exit...