Can anyone help? I have just purchased a ner western digital USB external HDD and cannot start up when it is connected. I am running XP and it hangs on boot when the new drive is pluged/in.

I took a look at a "dead" hard drive for a friend today. It's not being recognized by the BIOS anymore. Once or twice the drive was recognized OK, and during those times the diagnostic software I...

I often wonder if I should turn off my computer when not in use, or at least turn the drives off. What do you folks think? I use a mix of IDE and serial ATA drives and windows XP. XP has the...

A) If drive A is copied to drive B just be normal ide cables and drag drop so nothing clever - will the forensic left over magnetic signals be lost ? I am thinking that the clever software that...

I have a hardrive wich is protected with a password. I dont know the password. The bios want let me in, because the password overrides the bios and askes for the password. What can I do to get rid of...

im using PQ drive image 5.0 (yes, it's old). I made a drive image of a machine with 2 partitions. One is a 30 meg service partition, the other is an 18 gig partition. I want to restore this such...

When will Samsung release drives bigger than 160 GB? http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/

Where can I obtain this info about unlocking my hdrive ? TIA

How does one reformat a 200 GB FAT32 external usb2 hard drive ? The format utility in Windows XP Pro says that the drive is too big. The drive came formatted FAT32 from Western...

I'm looking at getting a Plumax external USB 2.0 hard drive enclosure. Anyone have any experiences with this brand ?

I had my 80GB HD partitioned into 2 volumes. The first 20 as my "system" drive, and the last 60 as my "data" drive. Well I just put a clean copy of XP back on the first 20 because I switched...

"Peter" <peterfoxghost@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:<G_Y9c.1079$j57.290257@news20.bellglobal.com>... Well - I tried it and it appears to work perfectly. Is there some nasty problem lurking in the...

Hi there, When I back-up my C partition (NTFS on winXP)with the back-up wizard of ghost2003 (part of Norton Systemworks) it automaticaly spans the image. Since I save my image files on another...

"Widow Twankey" <Widow.Twankey@Aladdin.com> wrote in message news:94C0755D4808FCE1@130.133.1.4... Recent product announcements at CeBIT were mostly for 16x DVD+R drives due around July and for...

I had an almost full 180GB drive on installed on a PCI IDE card that could handle a drive of that size. It was formatted as a single large partition. A couple of days ago, forgetting about the 137GB...

Okay, I know I'm crazy for wanting this, but... Wanted: 1. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 3.5" floppy drive, or 3.5" SATA 4x floppy drive. 2. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive, or 5.25"...

I am using consumer-grade SATA drives on a consumer-grade motherboard/controller, and they work perfectly fine. So all I can add is that SATA is not completely unreliable. That quote doesn't give...

Unbelievably the best prices for these things appear to be on EBAY. You may have to search around a bit as they are listed under different headings i.e. flash drives, memory etc. MJP

"Lem" <lem@mail.com> wrote in message news:94C452F9CA55091F3A2@130.133.1.4... Lem, As with most technology things, there are "price points". Specifically, wrt these memory dongles, I've found...

i have a problem...the reason i post here is because i know there are experienced people..so here it goes... i had 2 partitions , and i wanted to transfer 5GB from one to another cuz i needed more...