A friend of mine recently switched to the Mac camp and let me strip his PC for parts. I took the memory and the hard drive and installed them into my computer (they are both from Dell). Everything...

I hope this is the correct group.. I recently bought a Maxtor external hard drive to use as a backup/storage drive. My PC which is 3 1/2 years old has 1.1 ports. We installed the Dantz software and...

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 01:19:00 +0100, "007@mi6.uk" <007@mi6.uk> wrote: a floppy for just the reason you are looking for. Here is a link to there web site: ...

Well, the Terabyte Hard Drive is no longer imaginary (1 Terabyte = 1,000 Gigabytes): http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10188 I'm sure others will follow from other manufacturers, if...

Partition Magic 8.0 lists my external (USB 2.0) drive as BAD! It only lists its size, its name (BAD), and none of its 3 partitions. However, I have completely reformatted this external...

Is there some trick involved in getting a secondary hard drive recognised on a Performance 933? I tried putting AUTO in the BIOS (amibios dated 7/7/2000) (and saving the configuration of course when...

Hi, I am looking at buying a SATA Hard-Disk with 300GB+ space. The following appears to be a good buy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144394 Can anyone provide advice/...

Hi, I am looking for a live/bootable CD/floppy that will allow me to boot from it, clone my system partition to another partition, reformat it with non-default parameters (I want cluster size to be...

I have a drive that I want to format with NTFS so that it is ready to go if I need to install it in a system. Somewhere I heard that the XP version of NTFS (Version 5?) is different from Win2K's...

Previously Selek Br. <selekbr@hotmail.net> wrote: It is impossible to do in software if it was really overwritten. There are rumours that intelligence agencies of large countries may be able to...

Looking to write over unused disk space, I bought a program from Stellar because their support looked good. I've tried it out any number of times but it just doesn't work after testing it with a...

Does anyone make a dual DVD drive enclosure that employs a tabletop horizontal layout for the drives? I want to use the unit as a base on top of which I place other equipment. -- Will

Hi, I started having a hrd drive problem yesterday - disk drive detection in BIOS doesn't detect it as a 60GB drive (which it is) anymore, but instead as a 32GB drive. And to make things stranger, it...

I've been using PM8.0 to create a partition on my main hard drive, then move files from one partition (C) to the other (D). (XP Home machine) While last attempting to decrease the size of C and...

Selek Br. <selekbr@hotmail.net> wrote Nope. Even they cant do it.

External HDD project for a laptop. The way I understand it, a nonSATA HDD such as an Ultra ATA 100 can be installed in a SATA external HDD enclosure. True? Comparing a CardBus USB 2.0 adapter to a...

I am trying to use Partition Magic 8.01 to change partition sizes (or free space?) between two partitions of the same physical hard drive. The first partition is currently 108GB in size with 52GB...

I have written Windows software to read memory sticks of all kinds via a USB reader (www.cnwrecovery.com). This is using IOCTL commands. I am trying to do the same with a Sony Vaio laptop that has a...

Hi there, I'm just taking a survey on what everyone thinks is a good backup option for a small company. Currently we use external drives to backup our data spread over 4 servers. ServerA in a...

I have one PCI IDE controller card installed, and I'm trying to add another IDE channel to my PC. It turns out that both makes of PCI IDE controller cards that I bought use the same chipset (SIL680)...