an ACOMDATA USB2 external drive suddenly stopped working, locks up WINXP explorer, causing XP crash eventually, XP system manager shows drive as unformatted with 160/160Gb available. Powers up w...

Hi all, This is something I've often wondered about but never tried to find out - why is it that when you buy a 400GB drive, hook it up to your motherboard, you only get say 370GB? This is before...

Hi guys! I could not believe it (I usually never pay attention to those kinds of offers...), but I actually received my new ipod some days ago, so I really encourage you to give it a try yourself...

Hello, I took a look at the first 63 sectors using dskprobe. Except for sector 0, which contains the partition info, the rest of the sectors contain zeroes apart from sector 10, which contains 4...

Previously Jabba Leung <jabbahk@hotmail.com> wrote: Seek errors are a very bad sign. Just delete your data completely and throw away the disk. Your data will be almost as safe as with what you want...

Hi, Is the current version of Acronis (version 8 build something) able to create real sector-by-sector images of HD partitions? In my case, this would be important for creating images of encrypted...

I suggest you use Partition Table Doctor to resolve your problem.The software provides very useful functions: Backup partition table, Restore partition table, Rebuild partition table, undelete...

Where on the HD is the best place to measure the temperature. I have two raid0 setup in my pc, and so far I haven’t been able to find any programs who can detect the temp. on a raid disk. Any body...

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I'm running WinXP Pro with NTFS partitions. I used PartitionMagic v8 to move and resize a partition. The process got hosed in the middle, and left everything in a weird state. I can't access the...

i have a mesh pc and will be adding the above drive to my system i already have a 160 gb sata on a raid 1+0 setup however i,ve been told that raid will only work with hdd of the same capacity is this...

HI All, I am new to this but just wanted to share about this new online computer store. Its based in Canada as all the prices is in canadian dollars so its cheaper for us in US. Anyway, check it...

Recently I've been attempting to setup a backup system using Retrospect and Firewire hard drives. The initial (and recycle) backups take many hours. I've been experiencing frequent OS hangs where...

liz hope wrote: I'd go with the PCI board. The converter has an IDE to SATA bridge chip on it and your drive has another one (last I heard Seagate was the only manufacturer to use native SATA--the...

Hello All: I have to burn at slower speeds than the one specified to avoid getting "coasters"... I could not find the menu item to do this. In copying CD's the Nero module allows me to do...

I am looking for a reliable and affordable backup/imaging software that will allow me to backup a partition from an internal harddrive (with optional compression) to an external USB harddisk and...

I recently bought a new hard disk (Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200rpm) because my old hard disk (Seagate 40GB) has started to go bad. Although, it already started giving a sign (noisy, system hanging)...

Hello, I am looking for fastest raid 0 storage solution for a workstation. Is Adaptec 39320 controler + 6 Fujitsu mas 36gb 15000 rpm drives u 320 the fastest i could get or is there something else,...

I keep running chkdsk /f on XP and am getting the below errors. The more I run it the less errors but it never comes up error free on C:, it always says it cleaned up some minor...

I am about to build a webserver that is supposed to have a raid1 mirror drive system (hardware controller). I was wondering if the system could be built with just one hd for the time being and then...