My computer has suddenly started reporting the error message "Primary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed" after the BIOS has detected the harddrives connected to my system. I have the...

Hi, I know it is possible to read out the temperature of a hdd with mbm, speedfan, ... Is there a toolkit or sdk available where i could read easy out the temperatures within my c++ code? Another...

I was checking out prices for Addonics & Acard bridge adapters. I noticed that both have a scsi subsets for IDE devices question on the ide/scsi bridge. If I wanted to hook up an dvd drive to a...

Seagate ST38641a Hard Drive Just keeps trying to read disk again and again, but cant. I checked cables and everything seems fine. Could there be some other reason?

Are modern hard disk drives susceptible to hardware damage or data corruption from sudden power loss? By "sudden power loss", I mean like if you pull the power supply plug out off the wall socket,...

Hello, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that?

Thought on Western Digital HD -- Future Shop has a sale on : WD Caviar 120 GB Special Edition 8 MB buffer hard drive for $89.99 CDN How good is this drive and the price? Cheers _ Hunibal _

Hi, I have a 6 GB drive that has been split into 3 x 2 GB partitions. The primary holds Windows 2000 Pro SP4 and program files. The other 2 are in the extended partition and are empty. All are...

I have acquired a 160GB SATA hard drive and my motherboard has a pecial connection where it is plugged in. I am running W2K with just one IDE hard drive. When I boot my computer the system recognises...

Can anyone recommend an alternative to Norton Ghost? I do a little work for the local Museum (charity) and am trying to help them with their computer. They haven't got a huge amount of money and...

Hi, I just returned a bad western digital passport ( 80 GB ). Before I go out and buy a new usb portable hard drive, does anyone have any opinion on the reliability on Passport or any other USB...

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Hi. i have just aquired a new motherboard and CPU and put them in my machine today. i have two hard drives, one 80gig one which had my windows installation on before i installed the new...

I am thinking of buying a Seagate oem 300 GB hard drive from an ebay seller. The seller says on his ebay ad that the drive has the Seagate five year warranty. How can I be SURE that the drive does...

I run XP home with a 40gig boot drive and a 120gig data drive. I decided to hack my tivo, so I pulled the drives and did all the linux stuff required to get my tivo to where I want it to be. When I...

I been trying to put a new 40gb seagate harddrive in this old p2 rig.The problem I got is that the puter don't find it.I been trying to put it in as single master and I tried cable select and I tried...

BIOS gurus: My Dell Dimension manual says that the BIOS looks down its boot order list of hard drives until it finds one with an operating system. Then it passes control to the ntldr there that...

I have a Maxtor 20GB drive that developed bad sectors some time ago due to a power glitch. It contains a FAT32 volume, which does not mount in Win2K because of bads in the FAT. Findpart ran for an...

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I had some registry files on a CD-R I wrote some furhter files to that CD in Easy CD Creator and in the process, the registry files came up as being files I wanted to write to the drive in this new...